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Silent Paths to Spiritual Enlightenment

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The talk discusses the intricate relationship between silence and spirituality in prayer, drawing connections between Christian and Buddhist traditions. The central thesis revolves around the concept of "prayer of silence," emphasizing how silence is foundational in experiencing spiritual connection and understanding. The discourse also explores the triadic relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, asserting that true dialogue with God transcends spoken words in favor of an exchange of silence, which leads to deeper understanding and enlightenment through spiritual practices. The speaker concludes by emphasizing living life through gratitude and social responsibility as an expression of one's spiritual journey.

  • C.S. Lewis: Referenced for the notion of "the silence of bliss out of which the world comes," helping to illustrate the depth of silence in spiritual practice.
  • Buddhism: Highlighted for its emphasis on silence, offering parallels to Christian contemplative practices, particularly the "prayer of silence."
  • St. John and St. Paul: Their teachings are discussed to elucidate the transition from darkness to light and the idea of Enlightenment within Christian tradition.
  • The Bible: Mentioned as presenting a different approach to ethical action by emphasizing that one’s capacity to love the neighbor is a reflection of having passed from darkness to light.
  • The concept of "Contemplation in Action": Explored as a means of integrating spiritual awareness into daily life activities, promoting an understanding that world engagement is part of one's prayer life.

The talk further ties in various religious and philosophical insights, providing a comprehensive view of spirituality that encourages participants to seek deeper, silent understanding within themselves as well as actively engage with the world through understanding and gratitude.

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science, out of which the world comes, the science is out of which the world comes. And in part, they move their attention to spirituality, but we are just to say it's centered on the world, though. The beauty is the center of our spiritual. Buddhism is centered on the silence of God. What is that in our Buddhist mind, Buddhist? But what is it in our view? Besides, it is . It must admit, we really don't quite know what to do with the body. In our speech, there is one line or . And to give it all, it says it is the father of the son. That's it. There isn't much to say. There's nothing to say about him.

[01:03]

So everything that you can say about is also the word. But the father is, as he has most words in that silence of this, out of which the word comes. That's a good way of getting away from the picture of the old man in the year. That's all right. We need images, and we shouldn't be iconic yet, but we should have many different images so that we can destroy one image with death. And the image that we see is for the Father is image of abyss. And he said, we should have in our mind no likeness of the abyss of the Father, into which If the future not well is thought for everyone and ever, that will be here and ever come back. That is the first time.

[02:06]

And yet, this first time comes the womb of the birth. God, the Father, expresses himself, as he said right now, completely perfect in one eternal birth. At this dimension of the silence, that is something that does belong to our prayer life, too. And very many people sometimes experience this, but they don't know where to hang it all to make it that they adore in their mind. And so they cannot cultivate . But that doesn't belong enough above that. But very many people do, they say, well, My inner prayer is when I'm just completely silent. It's just being the presence of God in silence.

[03:06]

And before silence I am, the wise, it would be greater than I don't think about it. I'm just there. So, well, if this has ever happened to you, that is a perfect, traditional form of prayer in the Christian tradition. And it's what they call the prayer of sun. It sounds so complicated that nobody would let it go. But that is perfectly valid. And it is, by the way, the foolish dimension of our vision. That's what foolishness are all about, that sun. The sun of the sun. And the sun just belongs to the world, except we know that. But we don't focus up. We don't directly aware. We think that we hear more silence than we hear. We think that we hear more silence than we hear.

[04:09]

We think that we hear more silence than we hear silence. Only if you remind yourself that there are big organs there. We have thousands of plants. I don't mind that maybe as many as 2,000 types are going to be several of those types. But what about those 1,000 types that are not big? You hear them. You hear them as not big. Because otherwise, there could be a music that are not big. So you hear the silence of those types that are not big. And that is as important for the music as the sound of those types that are great. And it goes deep much deeper. What you are really hearing when you're listening to the bird, my bird is just now. It is not the bird. It is not the fairy bird. But it is that silence within me which comes to bird and reaches, it can't top your brain or your ears, but you are that silence itself.

[05:21]

And nonetheless, my side comes to birth, it's just chit-chat. It's not being birthed. And unless it reaches your sign and center, you don't understand. It's just births. It's just chit-chat. So a real dialogue is not so much an exchange of birth, but it's just an exchange of silence. And that is all that I mentioned about there, right? Because you are dying off with God also. It's not an exchange of words, but it's an exchange of silence and ether. And this isn't the part which we have experienced just talking about because not any more. It simply might put our mind in this direction. It doesn't matter whether it's the silence and that's all right. I just think you want to know that there is a third advantage of a place for meat.

[06:24]

And that is understand. Obviously, without understanding, there is no meat. You have to understand. Without her, there is no meat. Because whatever it is, whatever it is that means something to you, need something huge because, in some sense, the world is extreme. So the dimension of birth is the dimension of silence. It was just a short amount. Birth without silence is deeper. But there must be a third dimension, and that is the dimension of understanding. Understanding is either the birth. or the sun. Understanding is that that movement through which it goes through the word, through the silence.

[07:26]

You can hear the word, and you go into that silence, which is not leading the pure divine decision sense. They are not with sense. I give you a very brilliant example. It's the best one that they could think of. points in that direction of what practice makes people understand. Suppose you're not on the highway and come to a green light of intersection. But if you stop there and you look up a green light, you have all sorts of beautiful thoughts and experience without a green light. You just sit there and have a tremendous experience. But if you have to understand, Now you have to understand what this life is about. You want to get your call. You don't get to sit there and go. You have to talk to message. Now, if you talk, and you see this green light, and you want to make it, but you just see it quickly, and you step on the gas, go, go.

[08:34]

And something like you need to say, what's that a green light? It must be that very passionate. Oops. Then you have understood that green light. You understood because you didn't get stuck in that green light, but you went right through it, so to say, to the goal. That's the message. But that goal is completely silent. It's completely invisible. It's crazy. You can take that back and go out of the morning when you want, and you nowhere find the goal, it's done. It's nothing. It's nothing. empty it in silence. And yet, it's that goal that speaks to you when you see the light. And they understand that goal with which you go to the word that you listen to, see to that sign, next to one, that this word . And that is exactly not the problem of the word.

[09:36]

In this case, it's an arbitrary sign, and therefore, . say, all right, . But we want to evolve now. All I like to show is that there is a . And that is another dimension of meaning. And therefore, it is a dimension of prayer. And it is the dimension of the Holy Spirit, because The silence of the father and the birth are guided, so to say, by the spirit of understanding. That is how we understand the birth of God, that it is all spirit which he has given to us. So through the Lord, through the birth. And that's what Peter says, .

[10:37]

It's the birth. And, of course, we must not only stick that to the panacheas, but everything has been created and proven that's important. And, therefore, everything you see and everything you experience, every situation, its birth, [...] birth. in the spirit of understanding, we open ourselves and we let us, ourselves, let, give ourselves a vision so that we can be led to the power. And that brings it to the people that preach about our prayer life. Because if there's one thing that makes Hinduism keep, just as the Buddha and that the insight that God speaks makes the change.

[11:38]

. It is [...] . And . It is . And that is exactly And they're going to say what Jesus says, I, the Father, of what? I, the Word, and the Father, and the bliss of silence, of which the Word, of what? And that is another tradition of our own prayer, I think. And it is what we call contemplation in action. Not contemplation purely in action, but to do something to finance it, and it's so simply divine. You're looking up there.

[12:42]

That would be not very good work, and it won't be very good conservation. It's just a distraction, horrible. That if you're very action, why am I wrong? Because with the spirit of God, who is really, that applies to simply as fast to daily life, just having the vegetables for your soup, And it applies to any most complicated social action. But in the very acting out of what the spirit of God wants us, we can contemplate God. And it's a kind of different image from contemplating the world and from finding God in silence. But God said, these are all dimensional because they are the three basic ways in which marriage can go to God God is the kingdom. God is the kingdom of God. God is the kingdom of God.

[13:44]

God is the kingdom of God. [...] God is And in that sense, God is not only the giver, but also the gift and the thanksgiving. And through this thanksgiving, the gift returns to the Father, and the Father becomes the recipient, as it were. He does thanks, and the one who gives thanks receives thanks. So the giver becomes the receiver, but thanks is a kind of spiral that we spiraling up by the thanksgiving. that our life, our spiritual life, is simply a thing we first need this movement. It is a very movement in which it was called the ground dancing thing.

[14:47]

It's a tremendous dance that's going on there. The Father giving himself with the Son, with the Son, with the Spirit giving himself back to the Father. And we are simply fighting to enter into this rebellious step. And that is where our real social responsibility lies. And it's the same to simply not to do nice things for us, but to simply develop ourselves, to be fully ourselves. And that is what makes us going from darkness to light, becoming our new self. That is not, but it cannot be accomplished by formula that to do this, don't do that, that can cause you to be accomplished by the courage of faith to go from darkness, to make this evil constantly go, to finally open yourself to me, to listen to God, to listen to science, and to understand.

[15:55]

And I think that all about today will be no better way than a particular Precisely this, she calls it in that courageous going from darkness to light. Not by , not by , but by the courage of faith . And so by being led. And the mediators begin to all . I realized very well that the little mistakes had me, and it's difficult to apply. Most doctors picked about that in the way you want to be quite a good time now for questions. So if people should pick about that in the way you want,

[16:59]

Oh, I still want another thing to do fine. I want to get a place to wish everybody else because I don't want it. Well, that's it. It's so necessary to cry. You got it. In our case, we're not doing it. I think it's the concept of the good job. That's it. And I think in the home, what would expect it? And what she did by the big, [...] small, big, [...] big. A trend that I asked before the clock, would I say something about love of favor and love of self?

[18:21]

And I was actually very good. I had to give my knowledge, so then I had to let this question out. The way we asked the question was not exactly the way I'm . And so this may step up on another question. But I would like to bring this in here. I think it was more about your question. So I ask this one. You can approach this . . From a point of view, or from a religious point of view. And that might not be not what I meant by these different approaches. Most of the time, it will be the approach of the NPT one. And then if you get the four sorts of complicated questions, some are represented this way.

[19:29]

There's your data update. Well, you don't want to get these over there. Now, love it as you love yourself. So first, you have to love yourself. You have to make some complicated effort to know just exactly what to do, but work yourself and all that. I really officially love to myself, daughter. And then you have to make a lot of mental health disparities and treat your neighbor out there as you would treat yourself or something like that. It gets tremendously complicated. Then you ask yourself, well, why should I do that? Why don't you go ask yourself, why do we go on the line? So when you start asking yourself, what? So when you say, well, things go well as good as good as good. Well, I'm not so sure at all. And some of the great problems have come to decide to be part of the class before.

[20:33]

And we have made an awful rest of it, and both of them The best we've seen in terms of international . It's not important to be fair. It can't be justified at all. And besides, this is not important . We would probably be inclined to think that the boyfriend sounds like something like this. Make a real effort in what you make. You know it's difficult, but that time, if you die hard enough, you take them to Washington, and you go, and if you really accomplish this, then you get there, and thank God we have mercy on the way, and then you might get there. But really, this is the big one they present. It's a difficult task. Do it, and if you really accomplish it, you take it.

[21:36]

This is by the goal we need. to read the Bible's defense. That's the end of the court, and it is not the religious approach, it is not the privilege. What does the Bible know about it? The Bible doesn't say, drop your neighbor, and then you get that. The Bible says, bring it out of the way around. But St. John says, this is how we shall know that we have passed from time to time. She said, really, she's thinking, you have to walk before you make any happen to love you. You pass from doctors to life. This is how you should know that you have to ask for doctors to life, that you love your neighbor. So just sit there and go on the page, whether you did to love your neighbor as yourself, and that you need to know that you have to ask for doctors to life. Not make an effort to love your neighbor out there, and then make you You may die, but it's not what .

[22:40]

Well, what is that? Well, it sounds obvious much like . And in fact, practice, the earliest made for practice was the ,, which means that . Something that belongs to us, too, not the . I think we should connect it with another liquid mass machine, which says, that's what it means to really hear the produce, to really become alive with produce. Now, it's important to say that And if I consider, as you do consider, that God is the real self of sin, or of being, and of you, is curse.

[23:50]

He lives in the church. I'm really glad not like Christ. But then, you are passed over from darkness to God. That is the religious experience of passing over from darkness to light, that we know that the real self is curse, and your baby's real self is curse. And then you can prove that you have to ask over the office tonight by loving your baby and yourself. Because autism, a pure self, that's a poor self, and my self, is curse that you must love your baby. And she said that it must cause convenience. But we're proud of what's difficult. We could never accomplish the best besides George said, but it's an entirely different thing from working out the reality which, as a religious experience, has happened to people, and trying from a moral standpoint to accomplish something which might eventually get there at the end.

[25:01]

Do you see that? Does it make sense? Please, sir, get your piece into it. Keep hold with expression, because That is completely the very turning point of the Christian message. That's what it pursues from. He had pretended to produce, and he grasped it, had come to tell him what he must do in order to be saved. He came and says, this is the greatest command. Love the Lord to God. Love the Lord to God. And it can't do anything to be saved. Best did not. He would look at that pretty bad bush. You know, you don't have to do it. And Jesus told me everybody to tell us that we just can't do it. He didn't come to that. He came to tell us not what we must do in order to be safe. He came to tell us that we cannot be safe. And you know, there's a boy. And the boy cannot be safe to it. And suddenly, after something, it says, not by fulfilling the ball for you, but by grace, that means completely gratis to a time in sin.

[26:15]

And now, number four. And the moment it kicks with us, that we finally say, hooray, since we have passed the darkness tomorrow. And now we've done, we've done our lunch, and that will be the problem. It's a complete turning upside down. What we thought we had learned our Christian faith, and what we thought we had taught our children. And that's why our children had to go to some other place where they first got at least something super good news, at least something about communion that brought. Not what the Christians was. But the moment they had discovered what is, they're recognizing it to the church. And maybe if they can't use . Not in modern security, not in modern .

[27:18]

But first, . Well, I don't know what this is, but I simply say that there is no way from ethics to religion. But there is no escape of ethics once you get . Wow. Yes, and I know why so many of us have the difficulty of seeing this, because what we got was not nearly pure.

[28:20]

And what I say applies to pure ethics. It was pure ethics. It was pure laws. It was pure religion. But what we got in practice was it was a mixture of religion and religion, with so much emphasis on the ethic aspect of it, that the religious sort of fell out of the paper. But it was then. And so we asked now, well, am I, so to say, lost? I have spent my last 29 years, or 60 years, or 70 years on my life. on that tact, unless a boss would have to catch up with it. No, fortunately, it's always done a little bit of religion and with that whole ethics, you see. And that is what we really think. But we might as well see a little more opinion. And in the end, surprisingly to you, it comes out very much the same direction, as St.

[29:25]

Paul said. St. John said that, you have fulfilled the hornet. At least, Commander Jesus says, the hornet at the fountains inch and hang on. So I hope the cook is about to get into it. We have always had some division in it. But we've had it in there because He did ask ,, and then somebody said . And so our religious experience, those moments in which ,, through what we experienced, was vitalized to our religious quest. So ,, I think,

[30:27]

Because now, you will not be able to see that doves and doves would never get a familiar with God. But you've got something, because what you've got as ethics had already a fairly small shot of religion in it. And that is what I should say is that this should do for all. You have to be in control. You have to be commanded to do something. But the meaning of the life crashing up with pizza, it doesn't. God keeps me. God lifts you up with himself. And so where the religion really comes in, the religious life of so many of us It's not that all the religious instruction is not working on the church, because of the time, but this thing goes forward when we go fishing.

[31:37]

When? And that's why people go fishing because they want to carry by what they gave to the President of Johnson . They sat there for hours and hours in concentration. Those lines, why not go to the fishing yard? Well, what you're doing is your property. You're sitting in silence for once you're sitting inside, and God gives you something. And those are the moments of real prayer, of course. And we've all been trying when we are really trying to want to pray, when we are saying our prayers. That said, that most Jewish prays when they release prayer. My question is, did one of the prohibition denomination grasp is better than we did in this case?

[32:53]

But when we emphasize that ,, well, yes, this is something which came to see very clearly, that the insistence on, as you can say, ,, and so forth, in this case, ,, has something which was not in the last sight of because of all these . [...] just a little severe, like the other side, because when you really don't care what happened today, just before that, you already, is that many of the players in our nation who had started out with that case of law ended up in a phase of fault and nothing else but just strictly due to the

[34:21]

Nothing you have to pick them all. Just all just a straight hat and it moves its own. And in the Catholicism of that union, not much of a year at the point was made for the whole because they experienced some other things, but we're not supposed to emphasize. And you know, well, it happened quite a lot of great of all that you want at least in the distorted form that you could still always go to conventions again. That's it. So in the course of history, if things aren't worked out so briefly in the conversation, and it turned out that those who started out it by faith of all were much more caught up. In some cases, it was a double. And it just stick, snake-laced . Unfortunately, I cannot be dealt with much about it because I have

[35:48]

It's a Christian. It's very Islam. I can't tell you this because it's very sketchy, very, very small, the world of religion that I sketch here. Islam does belong to the world religions. Judaism, Islam, and Christians belong so close together that in this world, they just want one more. And they are all centered on the world. But from there, they have to go and see what the special contribution of Islam to the world, just as the special Jewish contribution. And tonight, you see, we have some very important witches, just for our own. Now, good books out. They're not too good, especially Yes, well done, it is what you do.

[37:14]

This is, this is, let's say, that some people are very truthful. Only some people get very nervous because they think, wow, let's not do that. And the fourth point of the thing is that if you eat them up and do what you will, can come out loud, you would do it, but one would decide to do that. That's the whole point. Right, I think one of the problems is getting to see that when somebody had a deal, the new self-strike that they don't need to be self-struck for, it's a really big deal. And yet, a lot of people think, let's not feel the same. Maybe because of what you're saying, the real, real, that they could be fucking up and what was the same. But one complete example in which it has come out, so do we do it?

[38:25]

I think it was, again, I'll solve it. It's, of course, the whole question of peace. To create structure of reality, it was that they saw but must yet be prepared to express it very well that there is no way to keep. Keep is the way. And that they saw that they get to ground with ,, but . At the moment, if you do that, It isn't practical, but the most practical thing cannot be the ultimate experience.

[39:36]

Because if you don't see our violence as a key instrument, Then you've got to accomplish the end of the moment. If you come on, that will help you all. If you want your place to work with the people that were done, what you accept it that will take. You have to write it. So this is maybe the means to manage a lot of practice with you, and get involved in that. If you speak at a few words, if you speak at a few words, What a fit. [...]

[40:40]

What a fit. I'm not going to be affected by the writer, but I'm not going to see much of a dichotomy in this realism, that idealism, precisely because what we are driving at is that the real realism is what is idealism. But if you set up this dichotomy, you never get across the gap But if you start out with a unified approach, then that button sort of dropped off. And unified approach is OK, listen. Listen. What are you listening to? Not to avoid listening up there somewhere. You're listening to reality. You start yelling, and you're responding to it.

[41:43]

But you're really responding to reality. That's . for coming with the blueprint and . That is the same as . . It's getting ready, so we have to respond to our press group. We are public, right? I'm just happy. I just don't want to worry about it. I want to say, you know,

[42:44]

But the pressure is how well it is made to this, because it's limited to accepting the doos and don'ts. Well, just accepting the doos and don'ts, of course, but there's a certain time in our life where we are evaluating people that found the doos and don't. So that kind of would be a good time to talk about doos and don't, to make more what's up. But that's why it's not that. I think the question is much more. This is a . And some of us protrude more quickly, and that was slowly, which was until we have done. We get . There shall I be the part of our life. And we'd so say, you know, it was true. because with that, all our personal things, not all-purpose work.

[43:58]

And if then, if it's gone, it's all our meaning. All the meaning that you could never see was the best of your purpose. That depends on very much of what the point is that we should have to deal with, you know, all of the experience of the world, A lot lower, a lot worse. That is more as everything that has to do. But to be sensitive, you have . Yeah. Yeah. Well, can everybody give me questions?

[45:08]

Yeah. OK. I don't think that we can have a given experience. Most of all, I believe it can possibly help us discover where .. They just completely collapsed. And it was a clear. It is very difficult for the young people to find the condition of what they are speaking. If they are in a school, go on and re-eclame with the best of their own future.

[46:13]

If they haven't, they can't be wrong. Now, just because it would be rated enough that the young people need to know about They are not externally very far from it. We discover that there is something. Well, in my first time, people who stood to some of the people who said, well, we don't know where those parents started from, but they have got it. And that's their information. Because they cannot see that in the Christian way, that's what they have done. But if they see, There, that has a very good standard support. For anyone who did the internet teaching English, and besides the board plans, you could be very familiar with the Diocese of Green Bay of Wisconsin.

[47:18]

Besides, the Green Bay of Wisconsin has published what is called the Green Bay Plan. ... [...] It has to represent what children, young people who are born in adulthood, are responsible at a certain time. You should raise your time back and tell them something for which they're completely unacceptable that are very beautifully spelled out. And based on years of research, I guess, you know, the government's technology to work with the best plan of that time, just by a couple thoughts.

[48:23]

Well, I'll add this. I'd like to ask you that we are publishing a more efficient, but then . And that we put me on this . So There are some of these borders here that also, for those of you who are interested in the yoga position, there would be a summer program that I thought would be sponsored. And it would be held not so far from here. It's all that . But . And I put some borders out there, too. And so I currently go to .. Thank you very much.

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