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From Rev. Jonathan Zenz

Thank you to all my colleagues and all ministers. You are valued and appreciated beyond measure. David Bruner, James Mellon, David Ault, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Dr. David J. Walker, Dennis Merritt Jones,

Norman Lear, defending his country, WWII. Norman Lear, defending his country, this week.

For your contemplation: Mysticism: Week 1 Richard Rohr Meister Eckhart, Part I... Thursday, September 28, 2017 Meister Eckhart (1260-1327), a German friar, priest, mystic, and renowned preacher, was also an administratorprior, vicar, and provincialfor his Dominican Order. James Finley suggests Eckhart’s engagement in the ways of the world makes his teachings more accessible to us all, since there’s no requirement that we live as hermits or go into the silence of the cloister in order to open ourselves to the experience of God’s oneness with us. [1] Busy people can be mystics, too. As a professor and theologian, Meister Eckhart had a deep understanding of scripture and his own Christian tradition. He was a true meister or spiritual master. I’ll introduce a few of Eckhart’s principal themes today and tomorrow, and I hope you’ll take the time to explore more of his rich and still accessible work. In many ways, Eckhart is the mystic’s mystic. He speaks with such full nondual consciousness that many do not know what he is talking about! He often clarifies an abstruse passage with a brilliant one-liner like What we plant in the soil of contemplation we shall reap in the harvest of action. [2] One Franciscan Archbishop accused Eckhart of teaching pantheism, but as Eckhart said, the Archbishop simply didn’t understand his teaching, which requires a nondual approach. Eckhart said, If humankind could have known God without the world, God would never have created the world. [3] Building on a basic awareness of God’s participation and revelation in nature, Eckhart believed humans have a special role in celebrating this gift of creation and adding to its beauty and diversity. Eckhart taught the simple power of letting go and letting be. To let go is no easy task. But in any loving relationship, as we see in the Trinity, such a surrendering of unneeded boundaries is the source of joy. Eckhart puts it this way: . . . the Father laughs and gives birth to the Son. The Son laughs back at the Father and gives birth to the Spirit. The whole Trinity laughs and gives birth to us. [4] Matthew Fox writes that laughter may well be the ultimate act of letting go and letting be: the music of the divine cosmos. For in the core of the Trinity laughing and birthing go on all day long. [5] For Eckhart, heaven is now. We are invited to participate in the eternal flow of Trinity here, in this lifetime. The only thing keeping us from God and heaven is the ultimate and damning lie that we have ever been separate from God.

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Let me repeat that ours is not an authoritative religion. We have a textbook, which is the accumulation of the greatest teachings of the ages but we haven’t any idea of becoming a closed system. We have two possibilities; we can become so narrow that we never grow or we can be so broad that we have no depth. It is up to us to find the place in between which gives freedom without giving the freedom to destroy the freedom which makes freedom possible! ~ Ernest Holmes, The Seminar Lectures

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'Walk with Me' (A Journey into Mindfulness featuring THICH NHAT HANH) screening Regal Janss 10/16/17 @7:30 $12.00 - Have to buy tickets in Advance https://gathr.us/screening/21127... RATING: NR GENRE: Documentary RELEASE: 2017 DURATION: 88 With unprecedented access, WALK WITH ME goes deep inside a Zen Buddhist community who have given up all their possessions and signed up to a life of chastity for one common purpose to transform their suffering, and practice the art of mindfulness with the world-famous teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. Filmed over three years, in their monastery in rural France and on the road in the USA, this visceral film is a meditation on a community grappling with existential questions and the everyday routine of monastic life. As the seasons come and go, the monastics’ pursuit for a deeper connection to themselves and the world around them is amplified by insights from Thich Nhat Hanh’s early journals, narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.

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