Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@CenteringPrayer 1/ "The Prophets teach us to do as a community exactly what the Buddhas teach individuals," noted the Quaker, Jim Corbett. Similarly, Illich, "the kingdom is a [eco-]social reality at a transcendent level." Peace among us, on the move, teleologically constituting redemption.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Oct 2021

@CarlMcColman Don’t get me wrong. Keating’s a giant. But his choice of ‘not as important’ powerfully affirms a direction as much as a cosmology. Does the sky-mind silence of non-dual consciousness suffice for a full Christian life? Again, our reality is as large as our experience.

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Quoted by@SophiaCycles I'd planned on a rewrite: you got to me first! I apologize. Yes, I admit I can sound hard naming a universalist tendency I perceive, for professional contemplatives to declare the relative *primacy* of cushioned mysticism to dropping an awakened shoulder. Of course it's both/and.