@SophiaCycles Perhaps. But wholeness isn't found on the cushion: it only begins there. Hear the prophets. Listening and not-doing, and *then* not acting, amounts to no more than an ontological vanity project of privatized individuation. This, hardly news, of course. James 2:17, for starters.
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Copy of tweets here: Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question 'What is the best way of helping other people? ~ Zen Master Seung Sahn "A meditation doesn't end with a sitting or a contemplative walk but in an act of service to the world.” - Thomas Moore. “Your power is limited by your objective. If your objective is service, the power that comes through you is unlimited.” - Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. 7/ What is it then, to reconcile our autobiographies to the enormous force of the spirit of an age, to wed consciousness to conscience in the concrete embodiment of a personal response proportionate to the needs of our era, concomitant to awakening to life's intrinsic wholeness?
@lukeburgis end/ Then again, “How you get there is where you arrive. Privatized salvation, our quest for personal sanity and safety, never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with. Think about that." - @RichardRohrOFM
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This dynamic homeostasis in which inner-and-outer narratives effectively mix and match? The single co-evolutionary realm in which Reality comes to fullness in us, individually and together. The concrete reality of worldly and spiritual salvation, reconciliation and redemption. In the dialectics of Jewish mysticism, the drive outward is essentially considered equal to the inward drive. The re-establishment of all things in their proper place, which constitutes redemption, produces a totality knowing nothing of a division between inwardness and ‘outwardness, ensuring that one does ot fall victim to the other. This, the Messianic Moment, is therefore defined by a new ‘architecture of holiness' (Heschel). Personal redemption, a make-believe project. We are whole, finally, only in the kind of co-association empowering its members to be co-creators of a social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives. Until then, we remain victims & victimizers.