Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Simple practice


Simple practice

Is it really
this simple..?
What are those
practices you use
to remember this
vital Awareness..?
Light and its
filtering..
Light and its
colors..
Oppositions 
and flows..
Polarities in Play
in all of
Life..
Reminders
are key...

Practice Over Theory

Meditation 3 of 52

Unless you let the truth of life teach you on its own terms, unless you develop some concrete practices for recognizing and overcoming your dualistic mind, you will remain in the first half of life forever, as most humanity has up to now. In the first half of life, you cannot work with the imperfect, nor can you accept the tragic sense of life, which finally means that you cannot love anything or anyone at any depth. Nothing is going to change in history as long as most people are merely dualistic, either-or thinkers. Such splitting and denying leaves us at the level of mere information.
Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody. We are meant to see in wholes and no longer just in parts. Yet we get to the whole by falling down into the messy parts—so many times, in fact, that we long and thirst for the wholeness and fullness of all things, including ourselves. I promise you this unified field is the only and lasting meaning of up.  Richard Rohr

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