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Sacred Unity: Spirit and Cosmos

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Cosmic Christian Liturgy

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The discourse presents a mystical reflection on the cosmic Christian liturgy, interweaving themes from various religious traditions, including Christianity and Islam, and emphasizing the interconnectedness of all creation. The integration of traditional liturgical elements with ecological awareness and the unity of the four elements—earth, water, air, and fire—signifies the synthesis of spirituality and nature. The talk highlights the role of prayer as a transformative and unifying practice, saluting spiritual figures across diverse traditions.

  • Biblical References: The talk mentions Jesus' crucifixion and the interaction of the disciples with Christ post-resurrection, emphasizing the transformative nature of divine encounters.

  • Shri Mataji: Referred to in the context of grace and divine fellowship, underscoring the harmony between different spiritual teachings.

  • Ramana Maharshi: Allusion to Ramana Maharshi signifies the influence of introspective meditation in understanding one's authentic nature.

  • Dakota Vision Man and Indigenous Practices: The mention of Dakota spiritual practices highlights the integration of diverse beliefs and the reverence for the natural world.

  • Thomas Merton: The reference to Thomas Merton suggests a contemplative approach to spirituality that resonates with ecumenical thought and inter-religious dialogue.

  • Abraham: Invoked in the context of the patriarchal tradition, Abraham represents a link between religious communities and a foundational figure in faith.

  • Moses and the Prophets: The invocation of Moses and other prophets illustrates the historical continuity and the fulfillment of prophecy within the cosmic liturgy.

This summary encapsulates the primary essence of the talk and its integration of various religious motifs into a cohesive spiritual framework.

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Speaker: Raimundo Panikkar
Location: Mount Saviour Monastery
Possible Title: Word Out of Silence Symposium - Cosmic Christian Liturgy
Additional text: Side one: 43 min 45 sec, 2-track mono, Dolby B, 7-1/2 ips, TDK-SD. Copyright 1973 Mount Saviour Monastery Pine City, N. Y. 14871. Duplicating Master

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Hare Krishna Hare [...] Krishna Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare Hare. Hare [...]

[02:09]

All depend from us, but this be an empty ritualism or a meaningful right. All depend on our good intention. simple faith on our sincere collaboration in helping with only we each other in creating here now forgetting the past carefully regarding the future, regaining the freedom of the child, and we create power here.

[04:56]

some words on the sacred space, which is not so automatic. A holy time, which is not an authentic gathering to which we can put obstacles. Could we not go for an hour, let go all our things, also all our ideas,

[06:07]

to make confidence in the Spirit, just for a while. We have still to learn to play together, because the prayer is new every time. to be reconstructed, to make whole, to regain harmony in nature, to reconquer fellowship with men,

[07:12]

to establish communion with the Divine. Three steps would be good life to re-enact this morning. being conscious both of our union with and our estrangement from nature. Thus, we shall bring the four elements to the altar, rodeer and worship them.

[08:17]

Bless them and bless them. We shall bring, in the second part, the world of men and again both enjoy our fellowship and suffer the wars of incommunication. We are all in different understandings. And thirdly, celebrate with pain and joy again. Our communion with above, which will again stress that we are one

[09:19]

and yet split. That we have the same colleague and yet not the same king. In the three cases, the ambivalence would manifest and probably pose of Christ in this worship is of ending over time. Place the board of heaven Lord, hear it.

[11:28]

before your waters, before everything was made. The waters that blend, the spirit, the body, the matter. The waters that adopt any form, not only from any recipient to recipient, but also of somebody, and again. The waters were the first symbol of life, the whole universe, the holy waters on which the Spirit was floating, which come down to just man

[15:03]

men alike, as the Atanta Vega says, which we for a while had thought inexhaustible and which now we begin to realize that they are also limited. We revere the waters. And we ask the blessing from higher also through the water. Let that part of ourselves

[16:05]

a century. to sustain everything, to nourish every creature. We have sinned against you.

[17:21]

And do it like now, more than just as an empty sign. Ask forgiveness of you. Recognize that you and we are closer related than when we sometimes with human pride and as an act of attunement and also as a pledge that we would like to be with you with more care, with more respect, never forgetting that like the plants and the animals

[18:26]

also will spring from the earth. Come here to the altar, those who care, and touch you. And perhaps, as we still used to say, dirty little our hands, but no touch. Those who'd like to come to the altar, This fire, which is in the stars, which illumines the sun, which also gives us our heart.

[20:46]

Come into the altar. Let's receive this fire, You can put your hands on the fire, please. day, not to give smoke.

[24:08]

So that our hearts and our hearts may illumine, kindle, warm, but not produce that stifling smoke which we sometimes We have brought these four elements into the altar. It is for us now, or for some of us, we want to go outside and fetch the air. Inhale, take the breath, of air in. But please only when we are convinced that this is a symbolic act whose meaning we may ponder later and even discover more and more if we are in this state of trying again to establish our perhaps lost

[25:34]

Thank you. He says, no, touch my mother.

[32:29]

to deal with prayer. And when the word comes out of his mouth, the word goes to his ears, and his ears hear where his mouth is saying. And then the word begs and feeds of the soul. Each word begs and feeds of the soul, never to be separated from it. And as soon as the the love is between us and have deeply regard to one another, and you see my glory and my beauty and my grandeur, how long have you ever separated yourself from me and go away from me? It is true that you have to go home because you have more treasures to get, but have them to be separated from me and forget me.

[38:49]

In any case, see that wherever you go, wherever you come to, you never really prayer. Then the whole word, the whole prayer begs over the feet at service of the letter. And the word comes before him and follows him and embraces him and kisses him and doesn't let him go. Because she says to have him be separated from me. I know how many more words you have to say, how many more prayers there are until the service is finished. And therefore, the only thing to do is to make all of prayer one, so that in every word that a man speaks, there will be present all the words of prayer ever, so that from the beginning of prayer to the end of prayer, the prayer will be all one.

[39:58]

And when he stands in the last letter of the last word of the last prayer, he will still be standing there, I'm neither Christian nor Jew, nor Zoroastrian nor Muslim. I'm not the East, nor the West, nor the land, nor the sea. I'm not nature's mind, nor the circling heavens. I'm not earth, nor water, nor air, nor fire. I'm not of the imperium, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity. I'm not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saskia. I'm not of this world, nor of the next, nor of paradise, nor of hell. I'm not of Adam, nor of Eve, nor of Eden, and there is one.

[40:59]

My place is the places. My trace that traces. It is neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the loved. I have put duality away. I have seen that the two worlds are one. One I seek. One I know. One I see. One I call. He is the first. He is the last. He is the outward. He is the inward. I know none other except YAHU, YAH-MAH-FU. I pray for all of us here, and for all the beings that we love, for all the beings that we don't know, and for all of the people in this earth, that we could

[42:04]

gives in a way that is good for our beings, for your purposes, and that we can take them into ourselves and transform them into more gifts and more beings for your purposes. I don't know what this is. Every day of my life, like a further entering into what this is. And I feel that if I could go far enough into what this is, I would find the center of it. The answer to all the questions that anyone ever asked. So I thank you, Father, for all this stuff.

[43:06]

I give you praise. Just say thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all me. Amen. Children with a lot of fire, I ask you to rest my eyes that they may see me beyond what May the Lord be in your heart. Put the right words on your lips. Inspire your mind to enter for all of us the words you would like to convey to us I speak for you from Obayasa, Dakota vision man.

[44:27]

In the life of the Indian, there is one inevitable duty, the duty of praying, the daily recognition of the unseen and the eternal. The daily devotion of the Indian is more necessary to him than daily food. He wakes at daybreak. He puts on his moccasins. He steps to the water's edge. Here he throws hands full of clear, cold water on his face or plunges in full body. And after the bath, he stands erect before the advancing dawn, facing the sun as it dances over the horizon and offering his unspoken prayer. His mate may precede him, his mate may follow him, but she may never accompany him.

[45:37]

Her mate may precede her, Her mate may follow her, but he may never accompany her. For each soul meets the morning sun, and each soul meets the sweet earth, and each soul meets the new day in the great silence of God. Whenever in the course of the daily hunt then, You come upon a scene that is strikingly beautiful or sublime, a black thunder cloud with the rainbow's glowing arch above the mountain, a white waterfall in the heart of a green gorge, a vast prairie tinged for you with the blood of the setting sun. You must pause. Pause for an instant. and attend to worship.

[46:40]

You must never set apart only one day for praise. Seven days of the week the God of our people have given us. Seven days of the week belong to him in praise. This reading shares with us the awareness of the sacredness ordinary, the sacredness of the daily, the sacredness of sharing, not only the fruit of the earth, the fruit of the vine, sharing the gospel and our lives.

[47:57]

That same day that Jesus was crucified, and the woman, Mary of Magdalene, Joanna and Mary, one of their names. And other women told the apostles that they could not find his body in the tomb. Two of the disciples were on their way to a village called Emmaus, which lay about seven miles to Jerusalem. And they were talking together about all these happenings. As they talked in disgusted with one another, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them. But something held their eyes to seeing who it was. They had no awareness that this stranger was Jesus. And looking at them, he asked them, What is it that you are debating about?

[48:59]

They halted, their faces full of gloom, and one called Cleopas and said, Sir, must be the only person staying in Jerusalem not to know what happened there the last few days. What do you mean the stranger said? All this about Jesus is Nazareth, they replied. A proper, powerful speech and action before God, before the whole people. How our priests and rulers handed him over to be sentenced. and how they crucified him. But we had been hoping he was the man to liberate God's people. What is more, this is the third day since it happened, and some of the women of our company have astounded us. They went early to the tomb, but failed to find his body, and returned to this story, that they had seen a vision of angels

[50:08]

angels who told them Jesus was alive. So some of our people went back to the tomb and found things just as the women had said. But Jesus, they did not see. How dumb you are, answered the stranger. How dumb, how slow to believe, all the prophets said. Was the Messiah not bound to suffer Then the stranger began with Moses and all the prophets, and explained to them all the passages, referring to himself. By this time they had reached the village to which they were going. And Jesus made a decision to continue his journey. But they pressed him, Sir, please stay with us. Evening draws near. The day is almost over, so he went to stay with them in the end.

[51:14]

And when he had sat down with them at the table, he took bread and said to bless him. He broke the bread and offered it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and immediately he vanished from their sight. And they said to one another, Did not we feel our hearts on fire as He talked with us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us? Amen.

[52:48]

what we are praying for. And our sufferings into something fruitful if they cannot be allocated. And our joys in something more than just superficial enjoyment. ourselves also unto you and the whole world also into that final stage of transformation which we may call a new heaven, a new earth. May he accept the sacrifice of Abel, the first man. No man

[57:01]

us, with whom we are now in communion. May he accept these our offerings also in union with the offering of the old patriarch Melchizedek. In the name of Abraham, the father of the believers, of one of the Philips, the human tradition. In the name of that one and unique sacrifice, according to the Shruti, which is performed in the beginning of the world, which is reenacted each time we commemorate it and we shall find its fulfillment in a place where there is no place in a time which has to transcend the time of.

[58:13]

May He accept all our gifts, ourselves, and be suffering, be a real offering, so that the sacrifice may be also a real sacrifice. Pray, friends, Brothers and sisters, would these sacrifice the day and the breaking of the day be acceptable to God, the whole mind of God. May the Lord accept the sacrifice into our hands, in the greatest glory of His name, for our good and good and good of all. prayer, intentions, which we would like to share with God and with one another, may now be God's.

[59:31]

Let me begin by remembering this moment, Father Damasus, who is present among us and whom we also have included in this sacrifice, because this is also possible, because we also I hold my spiritual father, who lies buried in his son's spirit house. I shall thank you again, who wanted to be with us and was unable to be here.

[60:49]

For caring who touched the earth, their stubbornness, You know what I've known to the world has ended up like a truth amidst the darkness of human ignorance. For see the chattels and the fire workers that they began at the fruits of this earth for the tears of justice and for the poor people everywhere. for our family. I've almost done no eyes, no ears, no nose, no mouth, no head, no feet.

[61:51]

Let all mankind, may some man live at a unity in God, in peace, in love, For my mother becomes her 69th year of life, that she may live it to the full. For my wife's 21st wedding anniversary today. For the children of Belfast and Vietnam, where there is no silence. For brother Peter, for brother John, for brother David, for all the brothers of this monastery, for their hospitality and generosity. May our words be not our words. May our thoughts be not our thoughts. May our lives be not our lives. For all prisoners and captives and inmates of asylum and concentration camps.

[62:53]

For all who have ever either knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly, and those who ever will, knowingly or unwillingly, destroy life. For Shekhinah, would she still be there? during these days together we have been drinking from the same cup a cupless cup and as we go away

[64:00]

And let us let the flavor flow. But we may remember this mount as a holy, all our life and gifts. that on the last day, when the secrets of all hearts are revealed, not the secrets of our hearts, but the mercy of God may overwhelm us. Thanksgiving for our vulnerability and our wound. That as we are all together, silently in the mind of God, we might be, from time to time and into eternity, a pulse beat in the hearts of one another.

[65:22]

God, all this may trickle down to every plain folk who would be wholly better and made the same. I pray for the gift of pursuit for all of us, that we may continue to thirst out of what has been struggling with these things. to those who we have heard and to those who we will have heard. Nothing has been left unsaid. Nothing has been forgotten now there.

[66:44]

And if something of the wide world and the universe has not been included, we would like still to embrace it. So that our prayer falls again on us, investing us with the power and responsibility of realizing of being instruments of that for which we pray, collaborating with you, Lord. The Lord with you, and the Lord with you, the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit of the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God,

[67:47]

It is right to give thanks and praise. It is right to give thanks and praise everywhere, in every moment, in every occasion, but perhaps especially, Lord, today, this night and dawn. We thank you for everything and to ask you to maintain us in this of thankfulness and gratitude, which is only possible when we are totally empty and we receive every brim of life, every ray of life, every word of man, every sight of things as a gratuitous and gracious gift coming ultimately from you. so that our word of thanks may be sincerely uttered not only when something flatters our vanity or is agreeable to our senses or matches with our ideas, but also when enriches us in a paradoxical way, coming in the opposite manner.

[69:11]

so that then our lives will be a hymn of praise and gratitude. And just now we would like to join our hymn of thanksgiving and praise with the rocks and the flowers and the fruits and the animals who didn't want to come inside today but whom we have already even listened. And with the world of man and with angels, and dominations, and Asuras, and Gandharas, and all the spirits, thrones, and heaven, so that, with the whole creation, we may atone the hymn of the whole universe to the infinite and ultimate God, singing. Holy, Holy, sacrifice.

[72:01]

And we remember how the Lord Jesus, just before he was going to face death, a death he perhaps didn't choose, but which he really accepted. Before he was betrayed, He gathered His friends and disciples around Him. He gave thanks and praise to God, His Father. He took bread. He blessed it. He broke it and gave it to His disciples. all of you, and eat it.

[73:03]

This is my body, which will be given up to you." After supper, that holy Jewish feast he was celebrating, he took the cup, gave you thanks again, gave the cup to his disciples, saying, take this, all of you, and drink from it. This is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and the last one. Come. It will be shed for you and for all men, so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me. The Spirit of God rests upon us.

[74:24]

Spirit of God, all the peoples of the universe. And again, remembering all the saints, all the sacrifices, all the covenants, humbly we visit you, Lord, to accept also our participation, to share in you the way

[75:51]

And this is why now, with a new heart, we would like to sing an old song. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Deliver us not from every evil, real or imaginary, small or big.

[77:17]

anxiety and despair. And through us give hope and joy to our surrounding world. We'd like to receive from you the gift of peace, that peace which surpasses all understanding which comes only from above and from which we receive and of which we would like to be instruments of that very peace which we have already given to one another in a humble way.

[78:25]

Instead of giving that peace which all sincerely flows from our hearts, let's symbolize our wanting the peace just by asking forgiveness to one another, but not realistically feeling that we can already offer the peace. but that we may perhaps feel at the feet of one another, saying, Brother, nothing but perhaps excuses. to revert into the hands of man.

[79:43]

And that's what I'm going to do to you. Please help me, please please me out. And I'm asking any of you where you want to receive communion. I'm asking you to hand over the body to Christ, and that you would like to receive and eat. Amen. The Lord is a sign of union and also of contradiction. In humility, faith and confidence. in the coming of the sun on your altar, also in our hearts.

[82:32]

We thank you, Lord, for this week, for this coming to you. For all the efforts, essays, inspirations, mistakes, directions, brown collage, love, and sometimes maybe perhaps also less love, which we have lived and experienced these days living together. This could be a pantomime another mockery, a new act of hypocrisy, an elitistic separation from the real world and ignorance of the problems of mankind.

[83:35]

This could be an escapism and an aesthetical fruition of a narcissistic soul or a real turning point in our life. in the lives of this community and all the respective communities in our hearts, a deeper understanding of the failures of ourselves, of the shortcomings and of this infinite desire to become one, to give peace to the world, to establish justice among men, sampling of our importancy and the growing of our daily powers. All these we'd like Lord to include in our final prayer asking from you that blessing which we don't know what it is, which we don't know how to formulate, which every symbol is imperfect and every word a lie

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And yet we realize that without Your blessing we can do nothing. Let them humbly bow our heads and accept the blessing of You, who still are at least the one who believes it is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. The Mass never ends with what may go in peace.

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