of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and by whatever other name that unfathomable mystery may be known. I apologize that some explanation is necessary before we do what we do. But once it is explained, all of you will know what to do thereafter, and so far as you're concerned, it won't be necessary to explain it anymore. We're going to have what is for Christian and Jewish and even Islamic peoples a rather unusual kind of service. In our tradition, worship tends to be didactic. That is to say, we talk a great deal. And there is a place for that. Only when it's exaggerated, we get into heresy.

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which is the exaggeration of any single part of the catholos or the whole of catholicity. And we get into telling God what to do as if he didn't know, and telling the people what they should do, throwing the book at them as if they would or could without the mystery of grace. And so our forms of worship become excessively talkative. bookish. The principle is that if I talk all the time, I can't hear what you have to say. In the same way, if I think all the time, that is, talk and figure to myself inside my skull, I don't have anything to think about except thoughts. Therefore I lose touch with reality. and live in a purely abstract world.

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And one of the major curses of our entire industrial civilization is that we value money more than we value real wealth, status more than material prosperity and generally speaking we eat the menu instead of the dinner. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, once said, Christianity is the only truly materialistic religion, in that it loves material, because it is the mystery of the Word made flesh. Well, he made a point, but let's not make it an exclusive point. So you may ask then, if we are out of touch with reality, what is reality? This question cannot be answered in words. There are those who say that reality is spiritual.

[06:48]

There are those who say that reality is material. These are alike philosophical concepts. They're ideas about reality. They are not reality. There are those who want to say that reality is mental, psychic. There are those who want to say that it's physical, whatever that means. But these again are philosophical concepts. Reality is not any of these concepts. Reality is Therefore, to get in touch with that which is, we need silence of the mind. Not all the time, but occasionally.

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Silence of the mind is not a sort of blankness of mind. It's a very high state of awareness in which we are simply aware of what is without comment. We become again as children, pro-temporary, absolutely naive, with whatever it is that is our consciousness completely open to just what is happening. And discover the revelation which that state of consciousness brings to us.

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the marvelous revelation of how many things there are that aren't so. That we go into the eternal now, where there is neither past nor future, where there is neither I nor other, where there is just what we can only call this, that even that is saying too much. VENI CREATO SPIRITUM.

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We are all the way through this earth. Lord, we are all the way through this. We are all the way through this earth. [...] ... ... ... ... ... Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you. Oh,

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Will you please close your eyes for the time being? And simply hear. Simply be aware of any way in which vibrations in the air affect your ears. Simply know reality through your ears without comment, without naming what you hear, without trying to identify it or judge it. Listen. And from now on, don't try to make any sense of anything you hear.

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And if I should say anything, listen simply to the sound of the voice, and don't make any attempt to understand it. Don't be ill at ease about clearing your throat or blowing your nose or coughing or shifting. That's all part of the symphony. Just listen to sound, natural sound, as you would listen to classical music. And if you find yourselves thinking compulsively, still naming, still talking to yourselves inside your skull about what's going to happen, what has happened, don't try to suppress it.

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You can't smooth rough water with a flat iron. Just listen to your compulsive thinking as you would listen to the chattering of birds outside. Listen to it as a kind of Noise, not taking it serious. Are the sounds inside your head or are they outside?

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On either or both? Does the question have any meaning? Become aware also of your breathing. Sound is something in the air, theoretically. So is breathing. Don't attempt to do anything to your breathing, but just watch it the way it goes naturally.

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Are you doing it? Or is it happening to you? Or both? Or neither? simply then watch what is. And if you have words for it helplessly in your head, don't take them seriously. They're part of what is too. So is the idea of the watcher. Just observe.

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What has happened to the past? Where is the future? Where do the sounds come from? There's no verbal answer. Listen. Don't try to make any sense of it.

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Just hear it. Can you hear anyone listening?

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How you sound? .

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. . Thank you. . . Alleluia.

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Alleluia. Alleluia. . [...] Thank you.

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Salmonia. Thank you.

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gather around the altar, the fathers and brothers and the members of the symposium in the first circle and everybody else in the second. We have to do it that way for the requirements of space. And in your mind and fear, I want you to think of whatever sound that you'd like to ask yourself, which is important all to your voice. and don't let our voices part of the land of nature.

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That is, begging water from spreading the power to stick. Forget that time, the water, [...] the water. Now, Amin.

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