Falling Upward...Questions

“When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves” 

― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Discussion Questions:

September 10th:  Who is Fr. Richard Rohr? What is Non-duality?
                                                         

September 17th:  What are the two halves of life?

September 24th:  How do we discharge our loyal soldier?

October 1st:  Of what significance are: Tragedy; Stumbling? 

October 8th:  What is Necessary Suffering?

October 15th:  Which of Richard Rohr's metaphors do you like best? 

Other References:  

YouTube videos: especially Richard Rohr speaking at Texas

Lutheran University. 

Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC): for background, publications,

Daily Meditations, and more. 

Experiencing a Torus

Experiencing a Torus

The Torus is a thing, a process of thought

which connects 3D with 4D.  So...we ask

ourselves what happens when, in our Torus

meditation, one arrives at the point (the

black hole) imagined as our entry gate to

4D.  Then a realization should say that

no-thing-ness now holds sway.  And

spontaneously no-thing-ness nullifies

our Torus entire, leaving only bright
 Awareness

aware of itself...

a small white-throated woodpecker

a small white-throated woodpecker

a name will come later

if deemed then important..

now watching a sequence:

beak drumming on wood

quick snacking on seed

immediate arrival on a

mid-branch a distant tree..

a sequence not rational

local meaning bereft..

yet it seems

a wholeness of purpose

of health and trust

of glistening distinction..

suspect these may be

protrusions of higher 

dimension...

The Clenched Fist

The Clenched Fist

teaches

that we and our world

are contracted and clenched..

as we notice this clenching

our suspicions rise and we ask

is this why we are lonely

could there be more..if only..

so a search begins and

 we find with chagrin 

only more fists and this:

our search also is fist

this discovery of import

 ends our search in a flash:

Relax now into that which

has never not been...

Realization

Realization

a morning search

of surrounding varieties

the world introduced..

the mind seeks

to locate a wholeness

 just out of reach..

a tiring sigh and

a pause for rest..

now is prime time

for Realization to leap

a spontaneous gift

the searching and sought

are known now as

a Sea of knowing

only its waves...

Falling Upward

 Falling Upward

by

Richard Rohr

I will be facilitating a

discussion of this

significant book on

six successive 

Wednesday evenings..

beginning on September 10th!

All are welcome..!

A Cat's Grin

"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!"

Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, which vanishes to leave only its smile, is a weird notion but it turns out to be a perfect way to describe what physicists have just uncovered in the quantum world. New research performed at the Laue-Langevin Institute in Grenoble has shown that matter can be separated from its properties. The matter in question was a collection of neutrons, particles found at the centre of every atom. The property was their direction of spin in a magnetic field. Physicists once considered these things as inseparable as a cat and its grin. No more....
Cathal O'Connell is a science writer based in Melbourne.
He is on Twitter @iCatHalo
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