Hemingway's NOW

Hemingway's NOW

Nick Adams

lives in the present

which suggests recognition

of a vast impermanence..

As a boy

after witnessing his father

performing cesarian on an

Indian squaw

with the blood and pain

punctuated with her

husband's suicide..

the boy simply stated:

I don't think I will ever die..

That acceptance of life

in that moment

must have been 

simultaneous with knowing

a luminous Present...

Hemingway's 

"Indian Camp"

Faith Formation Questions

Faith Formation Questions:

(Note: It is hoped that the following questions will stimulate your thinking
concerning the Mid-hour programs we have experienced during the 
past four Sundays.  If you would be interested in continuing in this 
direction, Marta Fioriti would appreciate your feedback for her reference
in planning future Faith Formation programs at Broadmoor Community Church.)

1.  How important are Non-dual teachings in our 21st Century?

2.  What was your experience in reading Richard Rohr's The Naked Now?

3.  What is the meaning for you in Richard's statement that our old software 

needs to be replaced with new software?  Startling?

4.  Does Non-duality present a new understanding of Jesus for you?  Awakening?

5.  Do you plan to pursue Non-dual teachings in your own spiritual practice?

6.  Would you wish to attend more group meetings on this approach? 

7.  How might each of us become more aware of Non-dual reality?

Walking

Walking

one step then the next

being then becoming

how does one be

and arrive...?

Light beam

Light beam

A weekend retreat

in a time allotted 

for considered meditation

a forgotten dark room 

admitted only this beam

with shadow fingers

on a chair appearing

and quickly departed..

A wall painting showed

similar shadows

a painting of sea and sails..

This enclave of stillness

with inner expanding

colored by light and sea...

retreat at Penrose House

One Simple Voice

Colorado Springs

SITTING IN THE UNRESOLVED

SITTING IN THE UNRESOLVED – THE TRUE MEDITATION

“I will not forget you.

I have held you in the palm of my hand.”

Isaiah 49: 15-16

“It is so beautiful, just to sit in this open space together, where nothing needs to be resolved or solved; where we don’t need to fix ourselves or be fixed; where our questions don’t need to be answered; where, finally, our questions are allowed to just be questions; where our uncertainty doesn’t need to be transformed into certainty;  where our doubts are finally given permission to just be doubts. Here, in this warm embrace that we are, in this place of true meditation without a meditator, without a goal, without a controller, we don’t need to find the answers, we don’t need to come to any mental conclusions about life, we don’t need to work everything out, because finally, finally, our wondering and our wandering, our trying-to work-it-all-out and trying-to-make-it-all-work, our seeking and searching and our desperation to find answers — it is all just allowed to be here, exactly as it is.

It is the essence of non-duality."

Jeff Foster on a retreat in Glastonbury, June 2012

The Seat of the Soul

STRETCH...

Monday, January 26th, 2015

4:00 to 6:00 PM

MacKenzie Place

(corner of Union and Fillmore

Colorado Springs, Colorado)
No cost

Over the years, best-selling author and spiritual teacher Gary Zukav appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" more than 30 times, helping viewers learn how to find more meaning and purpose in life. Zukav's book, New York Times best-seller Seat of the Soul, remains a constant on Oprah's nightstand and includes one quote in particular that has stuck with her for more than a decade. 

What is the quote..??

Video and discussion facilitated by Charlie Coon..

A common cold

A common cold

A common cold seems as slithering

 from person to person

 coming to rest in a particular victim..

The mind races backward searching for

the hiding places from which this misery

sprang forth..

But we know, don't we, that our only reality

is NOW.. and so the purpose served

by the mind's searching for those faucet germs

that drafty room:

these identify this search 

and all searching

as defenders of life's

separations and

what else?:

a common cold...