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Silent Paths to Spiritual Enlightenment
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Talk at Watson Homestead
The talk discusses the intricate relationship between silence and spirituality in prayer, drawing connections between Christian and Buddhist traditions. The central thesis revolves around the concept of "prayer of silence," emphasizing how silence is foundational in experiencing spiritual connection and understanding. The discourse also explores the triadic relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, asserting that true dialogue with God transcends spoken words in favor of an exchange of silence, which leads to deeper understanding and enlightenment through spiritual practices. The speaker concludes by emphasizing living life through gratitude and social responsibility as an expression of one's spiritual journey.
- C.S. Lewis: Referenced for the notion of "the silence of bliss out of which the world comes," helping to illustrate the depth of silence in spiritual practice.
- Buddhism: Highlighted for its emphasis on silence, offering parallels to Christian contemplative practices, particularly the "prayer of silence."
- St. John and St. Paul: Their teachings are discussed to elucidate the transition from darkness to light and the idea of Enlightenment within Christian tradition.
- The Bible: Mentioned as presenting a different approach to ethical action by emphasizing that one’s capacity to love the neighbor is a reflection of having passed from darkness to light.
- The concept of "Contemplation in Action": Explored as a means of integrating spiritual awareness into daily life activities, promoting an understanding that world engagement is part of one's prayer life.
The talk further ties in various religious and philosophical insights, providing a comprehensive view of spirituality that encourages participants to seek deeper, silent understanding within themselves as well as actively engage with the world through understanding and gratitude.
AI Suggested Title: Silent Paths to Spiritual Enlightenment
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Speaker: Brother David
Location: Watson Homestead
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science, out of which the world comes, the science is out of which the world comes. And in part, they move their attention to spirituality, but we are just to say it's centered on the world, though. The beauty is the center of our spiritual. Buddhism is centered on the silence of God. What is that in our Buddhist mind, Buddhist? But what is it in our view? Besides, it is . It must admit, we really don't quite know what to do with the body. In our speech, there is one line or . And to give it all, it says it is the father of the son. That's it. There isn't much to say. There's nothing to say about him.
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So everything that you can say about is also the word. But the father is, as he has most words in that silence of this, out of which the word comes. That's a good way of getting away from the picture of the old man in the year. That's all right. We need images, and we shouldn't be iconic yet, but we should have many different images so that we can destroy one image with death. And the image that we see is glorious offices for the Father in its image of abyss. And he said, we should have in our mind no likeness of the abyss of the Father into which If the future not well is thought for everyone and ever, that will be here and ever come back. That is the first time.
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And yet, this first time comes the womb of the birth. God, the Father, expresses himself, as he said right now, completely perfect in one eternal birth. At this dimension of the silence, that is something that does belong to our prayer life, too. And very many people sometimes experience this, but they don't know where to hang it all to make it that they adore in their mind. And so they cannot cultivate . But that doesn't belong enough above that. But very many people do, they say, well, My inner prayer is when I'm just completely silent. It's just being the presence of God in silence.
[03:06]
And before silence I had the words, it would actually be greater than I'll drink to God. I'm just there. So, well, if this has ever happened to you, that is a perfect traditional form of prayer in the Christian tradition. And it's what they call the prayer of sun. It sounds so complicated that nobody would let it go. But that is perfectly valid. And it is, by the way, the foolish dimension of our vision. That's what foolishness are all about, that sun, the sun of . And the sun just belongs to the world, except we know that. But we don't focus on it. We think that we hear more silence than we hear. We think that we hear more silence than we hear silence.
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We think that we hear more silence than we hear silence. Only if you remind yourself that there are big organs there. We have thousands of plants. I don't mind that maybe as many as 2,000 types are going to be several of those types. But what about those 1,000 types that are not big? You hear them. You hear them as not big. Because otherwise, there could be a music if they're not big. So you hear the silence of those types that are not big. And that is as important for the music as the sound of those types that are great. And it goes deep much deeper. What you are really hearing when you're listening to the bird, my bird is just not. It is not the bird. It is not the bird. But it is that silence within me which comes to bird and reaches, it can't top your brain or your ears, but your heart, that silence itself.
[05:21]
And what less, Why silence comes to birth? It's just chit-chat. It's not being birthed. And unless it bleaches, you are silent center. You don't understand. It's just birth. It's just chit-chat. So a real dialogue is not so much an exchange of birth, but it's just an exchange of silence by the end of birth. And that is all that I mentioned about Because you and I love with God, also, is not an exchange of words, but is an exchange of silence. And this isn't a part which we have experienced just talking about, because not anymore. It simply might put our mind in this direction. It doesn't, rather, let's be silent, and let's follow it up. But I just think we want to know that there is a third advantage
[06:22]
our quest for meat. And that is understand. Obviously, without understanding, there is no meat. You have to understand. Without her, there is no meat. Because whatever it is, you don't have to be a spoke of. Whatever it is, that means something to you, means something to you, because in some sense, . So the dimension of birth is . The dimension of silence is . But there must be a third dimension, and that is the dimensional understanding. Understanding is . that that movement through which it goes through the word to the silence.
[07:26]
You can hear the word, and you go into that silence, which is not leading the . They are not . I give you a very example that's the right one that they think of, and that points in that direction of what practice makes people understand. Suppose you're lying on the highway and you come to a green light on intersection. But if you stop there and you look up a green light, you have also the beautiful thoughts and experience without the green light. You just sit there and have a tremendous experience. But you have to understand how you understood what this light is there. He wants to try and go. And then when you sit there and go, you have to talk to a message. Now, if you talk, and excuse me, like, and you want to make it, but you just speak quickly and you step on the gas, go, go.
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And something of you need to say, was that a dream? You actually must be in a very fashion. And you have understood that. You understood? Because you didn't get stuck in that green light, but you went like going, so to say, to the goal. That's the message. But that goal is completely silent. It's completely invisible. It's crazy. You can think that God is going to want to believe who you want, and if no one finds the goal, he's done. It's nothing. It's nothing. It's emptiness. It's silence. And yet, It's that goal that speaks to you when you see the light. And we understand that goal with which you go to the word that you see to that sign, next to one, that is . And that is exactly not the problem of the word.
[09:36]
In this case, in that word, it's an arbitrary sign, and therefore, . and so forth. But we want to evolve now. All I want to show is that there is there by which we go through the river, through the silence. And that is another dimension of meaning. And therefore, it is another dimension of prayer. And it is the dimension of the Holy Spirit. The silence of the father and the bird are guided, so to say, by the spirit of understanding. That is how we understand the word of God, that it is all spirit, which he has given to us, to go through the Lord, through the Father. And that's what Peter says .
[10:37]
It's the birth. And, of course, we must not only stick that to the panacheas, but everything has been created and proven that's important. And, therefore, everything you see and everything you experience, every situation, its birth, [...] birth. in the spirit of understanding, we open ourselves and we let us, ourselves, let, give ourselves a vision so that we can be led to the power. And that brings us to the people that preach about our prayer life. Because if there's one thing that makes Hinduism treat, just as the Buddha and that the insight that God speaks makes the change. .
[11:40]
It is . [...] And . It is . And that is exactly And they're going to say what Jesus says, I, the Father, of God. I, the word, and the Father, of which the word of God. And that is another tradition of our own prayer, I think. And it is what we call contemplation in action. Not contemplation purely in action, but to do something to . If you're buying that, yeah, you're looking up there.
[12:43]
That would be not very good work, and it won't be very good . It'd just be a distraction horrible. That if you're very action, why? Well, because with the spirit of God, who is really . And it applies to any most complicated social action. But in the very acting out of what the spirit of God wants us, we can contemplate God. And it's a kind of different action from contemplating the world and from finding God in silence. But God said it is important because they are the three basic ways in which man should be brought to God, and God is the king of God.
[13:48]
God is the king of God. God is the king of God. God is the king of God. to the Father. In that tremendous book, in that sense, the gospel is not only the giver, but also the gift and the thanksgiving. And through this thanksgiving, the gift returns to the Father, and the Father becomes the recipient, as it were. He tries to give thanks, and the one who participates receives thanks. So the receiver becomes the receiver. But there is a kind of spiral that we spiraling up by the Thanksgiving. That our life, our spiritual life, is simply that we first need this movement, in this very movement, in which the good part is called the ground dancing thing. It's a tremendous dance, and it's going on there.
[14:50]
The Father giving himself in the sun and in the sun, the sun and the spirit giving himself back to the Father. And we are simply fighting. to contribute to this remedial step. And that is where our real social responsibility lies. And it's the same explain. To simply not to do nice things for us, but to simply develop ourselves, to be fully ourselves. And that is what makes us going from darkness to light, becoming our new self. Now, but it cannot be accomplished by formula that to do this, don't do that. That can possibly be accomplished by the courage of faith to go from darkness to God. To me is . Finally, to listen to God, to listen to science, and to understand.
[15:55]
And I think that the group All about the day will be no better way than if we take a picture in precisely this. She calls it, in that courageous goal from darkness to light. Not by thought, not by blueprint, but by the courage of faith. Trust by which we visit and respond in the defense. And so . I realized very well that the little mistakes had me. And . So .
[16:56]
If we should pick them up anyway, we want to. We want another thing to do, but we want to be a place to wish everybody else because of the money. Well, they're the answer. It's so necessary to correct me, guys. In our case, we're not doing that. I think this is the concept of the good job. And I think that Paul wasn't expecting himself to do this. And when she did find him, he did it. He [...] did it. I asked before the talk, would I say something about love of favor and love of self?
[18:21]
And I was actually very good. I had to give my knowledge of that. I had to let this question out. The way we asked the question was not exactly to be on . And so this may step up on another question. But I would like to bring this in here. I'm thinking it was more about your question. So I ask this one. You can't approach this .. .. From a point of view or from a religious point of view. And that might not be not what I meant. by these different approaches. Most of the time, it will be the approach of the NPT one. And then you take it to all sorts of complicated questions.
[19:27]
Some are as represented basically. There's your data update. Well, you don't want to get these over there. Now, love it as you love yourself. So first, you have to love yourself. And you have to make some complicated example to know just exactly what to do by yourself and all that. Like, I really officially love to myself, Laura. And then you have to make another method like the barracks and treat your neighbor out there as you would treat yourself or something like that. It just depends on how to do it. Then you ask yourself, well, why should I do that? Why don't you go and ask yourself, why do we go on the line? So then you start asking yourself, what? Some people say, well, things go for as good as good as good as good. Well, I'm not so sure at all. And some of the great problems that one just decided to be part of the class before I loved it.
[20:39]
The best we've seen in terms of international . It's not important to be fair. It can't be justified at all. And besides, this is not important . We would probably be inclined to think that the boyfriend sounds like something like this. Make a real effort in what you make. You know it's difficult, but that time, if you die hard enough, you take them to Washington and you go, and if you really accomplish this thing, then you get there, and thank God we have mercy on the way, and then you might get there. The feeling, this is the big one they present. It's a difficult task, too much, and if you really accomplish it, you take it. This is by the goal we need, to read the Bible's defense.
[21:40]
That's the end of the court, and it is not the religious approach, it is not the privilege. What does the Bible announce the Bible? The Bible doesn't say, drop your neighbor, and then he will get there. The Bible says, bring it out the way around. But St. John says, this is how we shall know that we have passed from time to time. which is a religious thing, which happens long before you make any happen to love you. You pass from doctors to life. This is how you should know that you have to ask for doctors to life, that you love your neighbor. So just sit there and go on the page, whether you did to love your neighbor as yourself. And finally, the moment you have to know that you have to ask for doctors to life. Not make an effort to love your neighbor out there, and I think you can. You may die, but it's not what .
[22:40]
Well, what is that? Well, it sounds obvious much like we like it, doesn't it? And in fact, practice, the earliest made for practice was the ,, which means that . Something that belongs to us, too, not the . I think we should connect it with another liquid message in which the floor says. That's what it means to really hear the produce, to really come alive with the new. Now, which is important to say that, And if I consider, as you do consider, that God is the real self of Siddharth, of being, and of being, is Christ.
[23:50]
He lives in the family of God like Christ. But then, you are passed over from darkness to God. That is the religious experience of passing over from darkness to light, that we know that you're a real self. is curse, that your baby's real self is curse. And then you can prove that you have to ask over God is too late by loving your baby and yourself. Because autism, a pure self, that's a poor self, and a wise self, is curse, that you must love your baby, as you say. That must cause convenience. But we're proud of what we're speaking with. We could never accomplish the best But it's an entirely different thing from working out the reality, which as a religious experience has happened to people, and trying from a moral standpoint to accomplish some theme which might eventually get there at the end.
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Do you see that? Does that make sense? Read it, sir. Get your piece into it. Keep hold with expression, because That is completely the very turning point of the Christian message. That's what it pursues from. He had pretended to produce, and he grasped it, had come to tell him what he must do in order to be saved. He came and says, this is the greatest command. Love the Lord to God. Love the Lord to God. And it can't do anything to be saved. Best did not. He would look at that pretty bad bush. You know, you don't have to do it. And Jesus could only have to tell us that we just can't do it. He didn't come to that. He came to tell us not what we must do in order to be safe. He came to tell us that you cannot be safe. And you know, there's a point. And the point cannot be safe to us. And suddenly, after something, it says, not by fulfilling the ball for you, but by grace, that means completely gratis to a time in sin.
[26:15]
And now, number four. And the moment it kicks with us, that we finally say, hooray, since we have passed the darkness tomorrow. And now we've done, we've done our lunch, and that will be the problem. It's a complete turning upside down. But what we thought we had were, we learned our Christian faith, and what we thought would be on the way we had taught our children. And that's why our children had to go to some other place, where they first got at least some grace of the good news, at least something about communion with God. Not what the Christians was. But the moment they had discovered what is, they had to rise in the kitchen. But first it comes to the big interesting experience.
[27:30]
Well, I don't know what this is, but I simply say that there is no way from ethics to religion. But there is no escape of ethics once you get with it. Wow. Yes, I know why so many of us have the difficulty of seeing this, because what we got was not nearly pure. And what I say applies to pure ethics, but pure ethics, but you were pure wants, or pure . So you can't.
[28:33]
But what we got in practice was it was a mixture of religion with so much emphasis on the ethic aspect of it that the religious sort of fell under the paper to do not make it out. But it was then. And so we asked now, well, am I, so to say, lost? I have spent my last 49 years or 60 years or 70 years on my life. on that tact, unless a boss would have to catch up with it. No, fortunately, it's always done a little bit of religion and with that whole ethics, you see. And that is what we really think. But we might as well see a little more clearly. And in the end, surprisingly to you, it comes out very much the same direction. St. Paul said, St. John said that, you have to fill the hoarder.
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At least, Commander Jesus says, the hoarder at the front is inch and hang on. So I hope the cook is about to get into it. We have always had some division in there. But we've had it in there because He did ask ,, and then somebody said, ,, and so-called religious experience, those moments in which ,, through what experience was vitalized to our religious quest. So ,, I think, Because now you will not be able to see that Jews and don'ts would never get a familiar with God. But you've got something, because what you've got as ethics had already a fairly small shot of religion in it.
[30:44]
And that is what I should say is that this should prove for all of us. You have to be in control. You have to be commanded to do something. But the meaning of the life crashing up with pizza, it doesn't. God touched your heart. God eats it. God lifts you up with himself. And so where the religion really comes in, the religious life of so many of us, It's not that all the religious instruction is not working on the church, because of the time, but this thing goes forward when we go fishing. When? And that's why people go fishing because they want to carry by what they gave to the President of Johnson .
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They sat there for hours and hours in concentration. Those lines, why not go to the fishing yard? Well, what you're doing is your property. You're sitting in silence for once you're sitting inside, and God gives you something. And those are the moments of real prayer, of course. And we've all been writing when we are really trying to write when we are saying our prayers. That said that most Jewish prays when they really spend their time. My question is, did one of the prohibition denomination grasp is better than we did in this case?
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But when we emphasize that . Well, yes, this is something which came to see very clearly, that the insistence of, as you can say, ,, and so forth, in this case, ,, has something which is extremely important, which must not be lost sight of because of all these . . Just so you can see where I was, but certainly to many ,, you see, that existence of this aspect of ,, is absolutely essential to . However, . just a little severe, like the other side, because when you really don't care what happened today, just before that, is that many of the clients who have started out with that case of law ended up in a phase of fault and nothing else but just strictly due to the
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Nothing you have to pick them all. Just all of them have a straight hand to lose a job. And in the Catholicism of the Indian, who were not watching them here at that point, but made for the whole, because they experienced some other things that were possibly emphasized. And you know, well, it happened quite a lot of great of all things you want. at least in the distorted form that you could still always go to conventions again. That's it. So in the course of history, if things aren't worked out so greatly, he promised this. And it turned out that those who saw it by faith of all were much more caught up. In some cases, it was a double. And it just stuck place. ...unfortunately I cannot be... ...because I have...
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It's a Christian. It's very Islam. I can't tell you this because it's very sketchy, very, very small, the world of religion that I sketch here. Islam does belong to the world religions. Judaism, Islam, and Christians belong so close together that in this world, they just want one more. And they are all centered on the work. But from there, they have to go on and see what the special contribution of Islam to the . Just as they have a special Jewish contribution. And tonight, you see, we have some very important which is . Just for our . Now, our good books are . Yes, well done, it is what you do.
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This is the last word to mention that some people are very true. Only some people get very nervous because they think, wow, what's the moment you do? And the fourth point of the thing is that if you even belong and do what you will, can come out, now you will be doing what one will decide to do. That's the fourth point. in my life. I think one of the problems is getting to see that when somebody had a deal, a new self-strike that they don't need to be self-stucked for, is it really big? And yet, a lot of people say, what's that real mistake? Maybe because of what you're saying, that real, real, that people keep fucking up, that's what we're seeing. Yeah, but one complete example in which it just comes out, is a beautiful .
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Again, is, of course, the whole question of peace. The great start of reality was that they saw what must yet be prepared to express it very well, that there is no way to peace. Peace is the way. And that it sounds like that they get stuck out with . If you do that, you want to keep the purpose of the practice that you want to end it, because of the religious experience that's truly what you want to do, and that they know where it speaks, but it speaks to me.
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And it is a practice at all, but the most practice cannot be the only thing that it works in, because it If you don't see my father's needs to make, then you've got to accomplish the end of the moment. If you come online, that is not what we are. If you want to do what you want to understand, what you have to do with that work, then you have to write. So she made it a needs to make, so that I'll track it with you. Then it was better. If you speak at the students, what I did, . [...]
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I would like to write it, but I would not write it with too much of what I thought it was realism. Precisely because what we are driving at is that the real realism was what is idealism. You set up this dichotomy. You never get across the gap with me, I won't talk to you. But if you start out with a unified approach, then that button sort of dropped off. And unified approach is you can't listen. What are you listening to? Not to avoid listening up there somewhere. You're listening to reality. You saw reality and you're responding. But you're really responding to the reality that's .
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That is the same as . It's getting ready, so maybe we can respond to our press, but increasingly that I'll be out of time. I'm just happy, but I just don't want to worry about it. I just don't want to worry about it. How important is it to accept the truth and thoughts? Well, just with accepting the truth and thoughts, of course, there's a certain time in our life where we are evaluating people that sounds like truth and thoughts.
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So that would be a good time to talk about truth and thoughts and make it more what's up. But that's why it's not that. I think the question is much more. This is a plan plan. And some of us could chew more quickly. And it was slowly. It was until we had done. We had done it. [...] They're shy. It's a digital part of our life. And we just said, you know, we could do it. but the point's meaning of what the purpose, because with that, all our personal things, no more purpose-worthy. And if then, if it's wrong, it's all our meaning. All the meaning that you could never see where it's best to be purpose.
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That depends on very much of what it points out about. We should have to deal with the law, the meaning of the world, A lot lower, a lot worse. That is most everything that has to do for us. But to be sensitive, you have our meaning, our life. Yeah. Yeah. But . Well, can everybody give me questions? Yeah.
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OK. I don't think that . without needing help to discover where the effectiveness is in life. So we first discovered where the effectiveness is in life. So that there is a certain . . . with children. . . Well, they just completely collapse, and it's a curve. They make very difficult for the leftists. Well, the traditional action of what they are is ridiculous. If they are in a school, go on and re-eclare in the best of their own future.
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And if they haven't, they'll develop. It would be great. Johnson tells me that the young people need to know that they are extremely very fond of it. We discuss what they have done. Well, my first young people say a group of students, some of us know that. We don't know where those parents are from, but they have got it. And that's their information. because they cannot see that in the Christian grave what they are. What did they see there? That's connected. That has a very good standard support. For anyone who is teaching the religion, it is actually one thing you could be very familiar.
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who went to the Diocese of Green Bay in Wisconsin. Besides, the Green Bay in Wisconsin has published what is called known as the Green Bay Plan, which you went to. Saturday night, you went to, or whatever, this mission, I guess, was the Diocese of Green Bay, and asked for this Green Bay Plan. Now, I'm sure that it would be very comfortable for anybody who is teaching in Wisconsin, who are very young. I don't know what the fact that I've been trying to avoid, but I've been trying to do it in my way for life. [...] And based on years of research, well, while I can add this, I'd like to ask you that the people that we are publishing a void issue for .
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So there are some of these . So for those of you who are interested in the yoga position, there would be . But I put some borders on it, too. I don't have to . And so I carry more people to .. But I put some in, too. And at the next, thank you very much for your ..
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