Friday, November 21, 2008

Embodying Spirit

I shed that too-tight skin of zenbaptist(1) and open to embodying spirit(2).

"The mystery of transfiguration may stand as the symbol of this study. Nothing is despised, nothing left over. Everything is integrated, assumed, transfigured. Nothing is postponed into the future: the whole presence is here. Nothing is pushed aside or considered unredeemable; the entire body and all of human history is included. Transfiguration is not some hallucination of a more pleasant reality or mere escapism to a loftier plane. It is the totally integrated intuition of the seamless fabric of the entire reality: the cosmotheandric(3) vision." -- Raimon Panikkar, The Cosmotheandric Experience

Notes:

(1) "Zen" has become just another term to be tossed around (Zen and the Art of Whatever) and just another charm to put upon one's spiritual bracelet. For me, Zen is a consciousness discipline. "Zen" and "Baptist" are each a neighborhood in the spiritual community requiring of their adherents a certain language, behavior, and thought process.

(2) "Embodying spirit" does not belong to but is inclusive of all spiritual neighborhoods, including "zen" and "baptist." Everyone is embodying. Everyone is a recipient and a manifestation of the life force (spirit).

(3) Cosmos -- the universe /Theos -- our Source /Andros -- humans -- Cosmotheandric: the three moving as one
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 21, 2008 at 9:52 AM

    Cool George...
    I feel looser already.
    Only the dance with the reply below is not as smooth as it used to be, one needs to join a club to reply here now..
    Sort of like Zen and Babtist...
    I'm into Google... another trinket on the braclet...HB

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  2. George BreedNovember 21, 2008 at 10:26 AM

    Thanks Harlan. I think I have that comment thing fixed now -- should be pretty wide open.

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  3. Kathy TrejoNovember 21, 2008 at 2:46 PM

    This page feels good (so did the other blogs)...i like it.

    I like this too.. "Nothing is postponed into the future: the whole presence is here. Nothing is pushed aside or considered unredeemable; the entire body and all of human history is included."

    i remember a quote (forgot the author)..."Zen is your everyday thought."

    Have a wonderful day!

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  4. AnonymousDecember 2, 2008 at 4:51 PM

    can't find part three of saving the world...i guess you deleted it.

    ok. :>)


    - Kathy

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