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""WE ARE ALL PILGRIMS"REFLECTIONS ON CELTIC THEOLOGY"BRUCE EPPERLY"We live in an adventurous universe in which we live adventurous lives, despite the apparent regularity and stability - some would say boredom - of the everyday. An asteroid passes by the earth and we are unaware of it. Our planet hurtles around the sun, spinning on its axis and we think we're standing still. Our immune system works overtime to combat flu germs and other unwelcome intruders and life goes on as usual, or so it seems. As I noted in my book, "Holy Adventure, "we are all on a holy adventure in companionship with a Holy Adventurer, who evolved the universe and evolves, albeit quietly and non-coercively, our lives and the emerging world around us.As a symbol for life's pilgrimage, Celtic monks sailed out to sea in coracles, little boats, without a rudder for steering. Though they affirmed human freedom, they also trusted God to guide them to their place of resurrection, the place of wholeness and fulfillment, where they would experience God's vision for their lives. They experienced divine guidance in the wind and waves that propelled their skiffs to surprising places. They assumed providence and synchronicity everywhere.These days, most of us recognize that life is adventurous, and sometimes this is unsettling. Frankly, we don't know where our world is headed: Greece may default, the Euro is in trouble, Italy is in economic peril, our retirement savings and investments go up and down from day to day, not to mention, the vicissitudes of our own little worlds. We are all pilgrims on an uncertain, but holy adventure and the most important thing we can do is embrace the adventure and remember that by our choices we are creating new adventures for ourselves and others.Much of my life is spent in companionship with a fourteen month old toddler. I am amazed at the novelty of his days and how they are shaping my own life, when I see the world through his eyes, whether crawling on the floor, toddling alongside him as he races down the sidewalk, or as we gaze at airplanes and buses, our hearts beating fast in excitement at the novelty of each encounter. His life is new every morning. Adventure awaits him as he picks up a stick, kicks a ball, or follows an airplane in the sky. Each of these is a portal to the imagination and to surprises along the way.While the world becomes more routine and predictable, or so we think, as we grow older, our lives are still an adventure in which we - like the Celtic peregrines - pilgrim from day to day.Perhaps, as we grow older, we close the doors of perception simply to focus on one or two things at a time. We forget the wonder of each day and the novelty of each encounter, even those with spouses and friends we have known for decades.The Buddhists say that we need to greet the world with the "beginners mind." The Taoists speak of the "uncarved block." Jesus spoke of becoming like a child in the simplicity and appreciation of the moment. In other words, become a pilgrim and adventurer, rejoicing in the wonder of life, experiencing the holiness of each moment, and novelty of each breath.The Celtic Christians recognized that life involves change. God was not only our companion amid change, but the inspiration to growth and change. The God of Israel never stands still but is immersed in history, shaping and being shaped by the flow of human experience and decision-making. Jesus is always on the move, never settling down, but venturing to new places to fulfill his mission. Every turn of the road brought Jesus a surprising encounter and opportunity to share God's hospitality, healing, and love.We are all pilgrims. We can, in the spirit of the Celtic adventurers, join openness to each moment with the intentionality necessary for personal and professional excellence. We can have a vision or plan for the day, but live loosely, knowing that holiness is found in interruptions and unexpected bumps in the road. We may, like the magi, go home by another way, traveling a pathway we had not expected. Unexpected changes may bring pain - losing your job, having to re-evaluate your retirement, or facing a child's illness are unsettling and sometimes devastating - but we have an adventurous partner on the pilgrimage who gives light to paths and presents us with possibilities for adventure as we journey through life's valley. Embrace the pilgrimage, for God's center is everywhere. (For more on Celtic Theology, see Bruce Epperly, "The Centeris Everywhere: Celtic Spirituality for the Postmodern World "and J. Philip Newell, "A New Harmony.)""Bruce Epperly is a theologian, spiritual guide, pastor, and author of twenty one books, including Process Theology: A Guideto the Perplexed, Holy Adventure: 41 Days of Audacious Living, Philippians: An Interactive Bible Study,and The Center is Everywhere: Celtic Spirituality for the Postmodern Age. He may be reached at "drbruceepperly@aol.com"for lectures, workshops, and retreats."
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http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/476103/ A Encouraging HINDU-VATICAN Native tongue
Sudheendra Kulkarni Posted online:
Sunday, Jun 14, 2009 at 0150 hrs
Stupendous two days. I'll never grieve for these two days lived in love and assurance and gripped in Hindu-Christian verbal communication." This is how Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran, boss of the Pope's Legislative body for Inter-Faith Native tongue, Vatican City, described the relatives relating Hindu and Christian get-together in Mumbai on Friday and Saturday. Upcoming from someone who interested the wisdom and detail of the spiritual tradition in India for the summit time, this flattering reaction seemed natural. Hindu participants too were collective that this was a prolific verbal communication.
Award accept been something else first-class dialogues in the beyond relating Hindu devout leaders and get-together of the Catholic Church. By and excessive, the themes of these dialogues were "cultured" in classify, as they sought after to explore the theological prevalent playing field relating the two faiths. But the Mumbai give rise to was peer for three total reasons.
Primary, this was the summit airless relatives relating the two sides after the unlucky explosion of opposition in Orissa in arrears engagement, which tinted two inter-related facts: the condemnable unsettled turning on churches and careful Christians on the one hand and, on the other, the insurrection Hindu depression self-important a sustained energy of revolution to Christianity.
Detailed, this was for the summit time that the Catholic decentralization was led by the Pope's topmost agent subtitle the division of inter-faith verbal communication.
Third, this was moreover for the summit time that Hindu devout leaders of high settled participated in the verbal communication, dispensing a illustrative consultation that the Hindu place is firm to take on in a useful verbal communication with Christians of all denominations.
Swami Jayendra Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of Kanchi Mutt, led the Hindu decentralization, which included Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of the Art of Living movement; Swami Chidananda Saraswati of Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh; Rajayogini Dadi Janki of Brahmakumaris; Swami Nikhileshwaranandaji and Swami Vigishanandji, two improved monks from Ramakrishna Mission; Sri Venkatachariar Chaturvedi Swami of Sri Ramanuja Appointment Mingle and Mahamandaleshwar Swami Vishveshwaranand Giri Maharaj of Sanyas Ashram, Hardwar.
Catholic participants included Pedro Lopez Quintana, the Vatican's mediator in India; Archbishop Felix Machado of Nashik; Bishop Thomas Dabre of Pune and Bishop Raphy Manjaly of Varanasi.
I was flabbergasted to be invited to appear in the splinter group, which was hosted by the Archbishop of Mumbai, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, a instinctive bridge-builder relating the two communities. My just prerequisite, almost certainly, was that I had participated in a earthly inter-faith give rise to on devout revolution in Italy in 2006, which was in concert organised by the Vatican and its Protestant the same, the Geneva-based Construction Legislative body of Churches. It was the summit ever inter-faith verbal communication, organised by the two excessive Christian establishments, Specific Fully ON THE Development Selling OF Religious Paraphrase. The fix announce adopted at the end of that give rise to has become a revolutionary document. Flat the BJP's manifesto for the deceased parliamentary elections carried an comprehension confirmation of it, and called for the "solid up of a binding inter-faith consultative spiral to publicize demand and assurance relating communities".
The good part of the Mumbai give rise to was that, even period the subject matter of revolution subject it, the deliberations were draw to a close by candour as well as civility. THE HINDU LEADERS Puncture CONDEMNED ANTI-CHRISTIAN Misuse. CATHOLIC PARTICIPANTS WERE Somewhat Straight IN AFFIRMING THAT Clear Paraphrase, AND Paraphrase Amongst ALLUREMENTS OF ANY Style, IS Canceled AND REJECTED. THEY Obvious THAT ALL FAITHS WERE Public figure OF Self-ruled Worship. THIS IS AN Signal THAT HINDU LEADERS Deem BEEN WAITING TO Pick up FOR A Want very much Magic charm, since numerous Christian and Muslim scholars make a intently unwarrantable disparity relating "Land of the Purloin" (Jews, Christians and Muslims) and persons standalone the "Purloin". The crave history of devout revolution in India has dazed how Hinduism was, and dormant is in numerous places, untaken as a "pagan" and "untruthfulness" religion, whose adherents may perhaps succeed to emancipation just by abandoning "anecdote" and embracing the unattached "Completely Concentrate".
Cardinal Tauran, a godly man of hoarse inspection, has imparted a fortifying new circumstance on the Vatican's family with Hinduism and other oriental faiths. In an try-out in arrears engagement, he had unconditionally noteworthy that "he would be travelling to India later on and at hand he at ease to describe this consultation that all religions are go with...We mustn't get the persona at hand are foremost religions and second-class religions." His remarks in Mumbai accept fashioned a sound crucial for delight blatant the Hindu-Christian verbal communication in a up and about avenue. The fact of the relatives was moreover substantial from the fact that, after the summit day's closed-door deliberations, Cardinal Tauran led the Christian decentralization on a kindness observe to Mumbai's extensive Siddhivinayak Forehead. This was followed by the Hindu decentralization visiting the Holy Entitle Catholic Cathedral.
The coordinate of inter-faith verbal communication got greater than before on the time day like Cardinal Tauran was the surpass guest at a soulful all-religion prayer, followed by an educating colloquium, in which prominent Muslim, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Sikh, Jain and Buddhist personalities moreover participated. It was organised by Shantilal Somaiya, a illustrious octogenarian educationist, who has been striving for rupture inter-religious understanding for numerous decades.
The system of reunion and glaring demand and subdued is a unyielding one. Many penetrating questions poverty fat deduce leading to convergent positions. In the months hopeful, moreover Hindu and Christian leaders moreover accept a requirement to crystallise joint assurance and understanding happening a practical and collaborative desk of action at all levels, in the midst of the manual level, to remove the sources of prejudices, crack and opposition. How to move ahead? One allude to was agreed by Swami Chidananda Saraswati, who assumed, "Apni apni bhakti, parantu sabse badhkar rashtra bhakti." (LET US Intuition AND Search out OUR RESPECTIVE FAITHS, BUT Foundation Intuition OF THE Disarray Enhanced ALL.)
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From
http://in.christiantoday.com/articles/hindu-pontiff-slams-us-commission-visit-to-india/4027.htm
HINDU PONTIFF SLAMS US Job Many TO INDIA
By: John Malhotra
Saturday, 13 June 2009, 15:01 (IST)
Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, one of the leading records of Hinduism, on Friday, slammed the advent observe of U.S. Job on Transnational Religious Make available (USCIRF) to India.
The Hindu pontiff, addressing an inter-religious give rise to relating the Catholic and Hindus in Mumbai, warned adjacent to unknown nations blatant in the institution matters of the saving. He was antagonistic to the investigative check by the Job on the Kandhamal meanness and Gujarat riots.
The almanac action of the U.S. Congressional transmit in arrears month assumed "the Job is negotiations to travel to India for the summit time in June 2009" to carefully regard and account the violations of autonomy of religion.
Jayendra Saraswati, responding to the action, assumed it was an "officious spiral of a unknown parliament to butt in in the institution associations of this saving."
"The Job, assigned to friction meetings and detangle the devout autonomy and restrictions in the saving, essential not be officially recognized to major India," the 69th Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, assumed.
He reiterated that the "outer surface involvement happening the institution associations bestow be protested".
Church leaders, meanwhile, accept diffident their fingers crossed on the common sense of the U.S. explicatory transmit set to line India within weeks. They trance the Job can bring to light the burgeoning meanness on minorities and moreover the impunity of the wrongdoers.
Archbishop of Orissa Raphael Cheenath has moreover spoken trance on the observe which he assumed may perhaps be principal in restricting meanness and ensuring the protection of minorities.
He wishes the U.S. government-funded agency to put emergency on the Indian parliament to dutifully public the Position enshrined in the Organize
Related post on the dialogue:-
http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2009/06/dont-encroach-hindu-space-inter 13.html
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It's still dark out and the world remains asleep as I write these words, and I've just finished my morning meditation.
I sip my coffee, and savor the stillness, the quietude, the space of being able to think without distractions of the Internet or others.
This "savoring"... it's a magical act.
Savoring is usually applied to eating good food: take a single square of dark chocolate and put it in your mouth, but don't chew and swallow it. Let it sit there, as you savor it, noticing its earthy notes, hints of citrus, the richness of its texture as it melts in your mouth. You swallow it almost regretfully after letting it linger, fully appreciating the delicousness of it, giving pause to think about the people who grew the beans, who roasted and grinded them and hand-crafted them into this square of joy.
But savoring food is just the start: you can savor anything, and you should. It's wonderful. And it changes everything.
Savoring can teach you to be mindful, to stop procrastinating, to finally exercise, to eat less and more healthfully, to live life in the present, and much more.
Let's look at how. And, as you read this, I urge you to slow down from your usual busy practice of reading quickly, and savor the reading of this article.
THE PRACTICE
The savoring of a square of dark chocolate is a great practice you can do once a day. I like to use tea, taught to me by my friend Jesse of Samovar Tea Lounge, because it is so light (compared to sweet coffee drinks) that you have to really pay attention to get the most out of it.
When you savor tea, or chocolate, or a handful of berries... you slow down. You pay close attention - the closer the attention, the more you'll get out of the savoring. You don't rush to the next thing, but stop and give some space to the activity. You aren't worried about what you have to do later, you are fully enjoying the present.
This is savoring, and it takes practice. You can do it right now, wherever you are: pause and look around you and savor this very moment. Even if it doesn't seem to be special, because let's face it you've done what you're doing a thousand times, savor it. Fully appreciate the gift you've been given.
This is a practice you can do several times a day - find a few rituals for savoring, like enjoying your morning tea or coffee (without sugar), or taking a bath, or reading to your child, or having a tea ritual in the mid-afternoon, or snuggling with a loved one. The more you practice, the better you'll get.
PROCRASTINATION
We procrastinate because we are uncomfortable doing something and want to do more comfortable (easier or more familiar) things instead. We don't want to write that report/article/chapter, because it's difficult, and it's easier to check emails and take care of a bunch of little tasks. It's easier to put off those dreaded tasks.
But savoring can help. Let's take writing as an example (the process is the same for anything, from cleaning your bathroom to doing taxes)... you have something to write and you know it's important. The usual way is to say, "OK, I should write this, but first maybe I'll check to see if anything important came into my email... and maybe my Twitter and Facebook too... oh, what's this interesting article I found?"
When we savor, we take this task of writing, and we slow down. We give the task some space - no switching quickly to the next thing. We pay attention to it and find the enjoyable aspects of it. And actually, there are enjoyable aspects to any activity, if we slow down and pay attention. When we savor, we notice these things, and fully enjoy them. We bask in the moment of doing, and let ourselves soak in its pleasure.
So instead of switching to something else, we sit there with the writing. We notice our urge to switch and let it go - after all, we're savoring this, so we can't just switch! We think of other things we need to do, and let them go too. We're savoring here.
And we just do the writing, and notice how our fingers feel as they move over the keys, and enjoy the pouring of our thoughts onto the screen, and notice our breathing, our shoulders, our jaw, our legs, our feet, as we sit and write. We know that many people are not lucky enough to be able to do something so luxurious as writing, and so we are grateful for this moment, however fleeting.
DOING THE PERFECT THING RIGHT NOW
A constant source of anxiety for most people, in this day when we can do almost anything at any moment, is: "Am I doing the right thing, right now?" Should I be exercising instead? Should I be checking what else is going on, in my social networks? Are other people doing something better? Is there a better way to do this, a better tool, a smarter method, a faster way?
When you savor, this anxiety can melt away. You are savoring this activity, so you let the thoughts of everything else go away, and immerse yourself. You give it space and just do this, and fully appreciate it. And so you know that you're doing the perfect thing, right now, whatever it is, because nothing can be a delicious as savoring this moment.
EATING MINDFULLY
One of the problems that causes many people to be overweight is that they eat too much (you might say it's the main problem). A big reason people eat too much is that they eat large amounts of food, quickly. It's tasty, so eat it fast! And get some more! I know, because I did this for years. Still do sometimes.
But I've also learned, much of the time, to savor my food. And when you do this, you don't just cram it down your throat, but you pause for each bite (don't reach for the next bite as soon as you put the last bite into your mouth), and you give it space, and you savor it.
This means that you really notice every taste of that bite, the texture of it, and give thought to where it came from, who made it, what went into it (not chemicals, we hope!), and what it will do for our body.
It's hard to overeat when you savor each bite, and take your time. In this way, you can also learn to enjoy healthier foods, like dark leafy greens or raw almonds and walnuts or tempeh or tofu. You can also eat healthfully most of the time, and then enjoy a bit of birthday cake without overdoing it, because you just need a little bit in order to savor it.
EXERCISE
I love to exercise, which is a statement most people probably wouldn't make. I love the exertion of a good hard workout, the good feeling of lifting something heavy, the feel of the ground moving under my feet as I go for a quiet run.
Most people dread exercise, and so put it off. But you can savor a workout. You can savor a good walk or a run or ride. Give the workout some space, and fully be in the moment as you do it, fully notice your body as it moves and works, fully notice your breathing and feet as they touch the ground, fully notice the air and smells and sights around you.
Savoring exercise makes it more enjoyable, makes you more likely to do it, and makes the time you spend doing it perfect.
LIVING IN THE PRESENT
Savor everything you do, every experience. There is no moment that cannot be savored - even those routine moments, even those times when you're having a conflict with someone else, even those times when you're alone with nothing to do.
Savoring is about learning to live presently, to fully enjoy the gift of each moment, to give that moment the space and attention it deserves. It takes practice, but it's a delicious practice.
'As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.' ~BUDDHA
POSTED: 01.14.2013
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