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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 634123" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>I don't truly know how this man---Richard Rohr---knows how to talk about things that are so truly relevant to the struggle and the journey that all of this on this board are traveling. It is a holy coincidence. (underlines are mine below). The Einstein quote---No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it. </p><p></p><p>Wow. </p><p></p><p>We MUST change in order to solve our own problems---otherwise, we will be stuck in them forever. I am just thinking on that one statement this morning. It is profound.</p><p></p><p>And then---when we change, we take with that change all of the previous "us" that comes with it. We don't eliminate the earlier "us"---we just package it up with the new "us" and take it along. This is forgiveness for ourselves. We roll into our new "who we are and how we act" all of the old stuff and we just accept it. Then, we did the best we could, until we knew differently. Now, we know differently, so we do differently. There is no shame, no guilt, no need to wallow in should have, could have. It just was, and today, it just is. </p><p></p><p>Don't let your spiritual beliefs and differences---whatever they are--- block you from the truths that RR is talking about here. This stuff is profound and it is grounded in tradition and truth, I believe. </p><p></p><p>I believe this is who we are meant to be---our highest and our best. It is the silver lining to the dark black overwhelming cloud that we have all lived under for so long---that is the pain of loving someone so very much and watching them continue---for years---to self destruct. </p><p></p><p>We are gaining our own best selves through this awful journey. It is a paradox. I don't understand it at all, but it is the light that we need to all keep walking toward. It is hope. </p><p></p><p>*******************************************</p><p></p><p></p><p>Non-Dual Consciousness</p><p></p><p>The Change that</p><p>Changes Everything</p><p>Thursday, September 4, 2014</p><p></p><p>We are living in exciting times. The broad re-discovery of non-dual, contemplative consciousness gives me hope for the change of religion and even for the change of politics. We are realizing that we have been trying to solve so many of our religious, social, political, and relational issues inside of the very mind that falsely framed the problems in the first place. And, as Einstein said, <u>“No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it.”</u></p><p></p><p>The contemplative mind can see things in a non-dualistic way, without being rebellious or enmeshed, neither reactionary nor hateful. <u>Whenever you move to a higher level of consciousness, you always include the previous stages. That’s what makes it a higher level of consciousness! You do not hate previous stages, you do not dismiss them, and you do not split and say that the previous group or stage was all wrong, as was done in almost all reforms and revolutions until recently. </u>Only in the 20th century did a few catch up with Jesus and re-discover the very possibility of non-violent revolutions and reforms (Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. being the most visible examples). The very word non-violence was not in our vocabulary because we didn’t understand it (despite Jesus’ clear teaching in his Sermon on the Mount).</p><p></p><p><u>When you finally come to maturity, you can look back at your life and forgive every bit of it. You can let go of everyone who hurt you, even your first wife or husband. You don’t even need to hate the church that hurt you. Wisdom is where you see it all and you eliminate none of it and include all of it as important training. Finally, “everything belongs.” You are able to say, from some larger place that even surprises you, “It is what it is” and even the “bad” was good.</u></p><p></p><p><u>These are the people who will change the world. These are the people who will transform history. We call them “larger than life” because they are living more than their own life</u>. As Paul says, “I live no longer, not I, but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20). <u>Non-dualistic people are able to be fully present to the now and trust God with the future and the past. God can use them because their small and petty self is finally out of the way.</u></p><p></p><p></p><p>Gateway to Silence:</p><p>It is what it is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 634123, member: 17542"] I don't truly know how this man---Richard Rohr---knows how to talk about things that are so truly relevant to the struggle and the journey that all of this on this board are traveling. It is a holy coincidence. (underlines are mine below). The Einstein quote---No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it. Wow. We MUST change in order to solve our own problems---otherwise, we will be stuck in them forever. I am just thinking on that one statement this morning. It is profound. And then---when we change, we take with that change all of the previous "us" that comes with it. We don't eliminate the earlier "us"---we just package it up with the new "us" and take it along. This is forgiveness for ourselves. We roll into our new "who we are and how we act" all of the old stuff and we just accept it. Then, we did the best we could, until we knew differently. Now, we know differently, so we do differently. There is no shame, no guilt, no need to wallow in should have, could have. It just was, and today, it just is. Don't let your spiritual beliefs and differences---whatever they are--- block you from the truths that RR is talking about here. This stuff is profound and it is grounded in tradition and truth, I believe. I believe this is who we are meant to be---our highest and our best. It is the silver lining to the dark black overwhelming cloud that we have all lived under for so long---that is the pain of loving someone so very much and watching them continue---for years---to self destruct. We are gaining our own best selves through this awful journey. It is a paradox. I don't understand it at all, but it is the light that we need to all keep walking toward. It is hope. ******************************************* Non-Dual Consciousness The Change that Changes Everything Thursday, September 4, 2014 We are living in exciting times. The broad re-discovery of non-dual, contemplative consciousness gives me hope for the change of religion and even for the change of politics. We are realizing that we have been trying to solve so many of our religious, social, political, and relational issues inside of the very mind that falsely framed the problems in the first place. And, as Einstein said, [U]“No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it.”[/U] The contemplative mind can see things in a non-dualistic way, without being rebellious or enmeshed, neither reactionary nor hateful. [U]Whenever you move to a higher level of consciousness, you always include the previous stages. That’s what makes it a higher level of consciousness! You do not hate previous stages, you do not dismiss them, and you do not split and say that the previous group or stage was all wrong, as was done in almost all reforms and revolutions until recently. [/U]Only in the 20th century did a few catch up with Jesus and re-discover the very possibility of non-violent revolutions and reforms (Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. being the most visible examples). The very word non-violence was not in our vocabulary because we didn’t understand it (despite Jesus’ clear teaching in his Sermon on the Mount). [U]When you finally come to maturity, you can look back at your life and forgive every bit of it. You can let go of everyone who hurt you, even your first wife or husband. You don’t even need to hate the church that hurt you. Wisdom is where you see it all and you eliminate none of it and include all of it as important training. Finally, “everything belongs.” You are able to say, from some larger place that even surprises you, “It is what it is” and even the “bad” was good.[/U] [U]These are the people who will change the world. These are the people who will transform history. We call them “larger than life” because they are living more than their own life[/U]. As Paul says, “I live no longer, not I, but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20). [U]Non-dualistic people are able to be fully present to the now and trust God with the future and the past. God can use them because their small and petty self is finally out of the way.[/U] Gateway to Silence: It is what it is. [/QUOTE]
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