The Big Question. (Spirituality & Prayer)

by Francis , Kingsgrove, NSW, Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 15:06 (645 days ago) @ Warren

Thanks, Warren, I certainly appreciate your learned approach to my childhood conviction of unity with surety of no separation only apparent differences. As a child I was not an intellectual and so was a simple folk. I knew it was, for me, simple reality (truth ... but I did not know there was anything else, and nowadays everyone claims truth though they talk differently). Benedict's simple folk seem to me to be people who find life more comfortable if the go along with what they are willing to accept as authority. Their mistake is that they have been led to believe authority comes from being in a direct line of succession and not as one firmly based on being balanced in every way known to humanity.

Being free of all judgment of others, of all prejudice and bias, of dependance on rational approaches as the only means of knowledge ... one can easily have the brain's activity stilled to allow something of the divinity to take possession. I have not heard of Jesus having done heavy study so maybe he was simple folk. However he was not one to blindly go along with 'authority' when he could see that it was taking advantage of simple folk of his time. My impression is that he was one that relied less on learning than on the Spirit within him. He attacked the direct line of descent 'authority' for what was evidently wrong but he did not belabour the issue. He concentrated more on the positive side of building up the Reign od Abba which was more learnt by a contemplative life. (As an aside, I'd like Catholica to be doing the same).

Francis

My purpose is to remember the love that created me in God one with my brothers and sisters and with all life. My function is to extend that love and unity each moment to all.