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Date: August 27, 2023 at 09:32:46
From: Nevada, [DNS_Address]
Subject: ...would you save the last dance for me? |
URL: DAILY MEDITATIONS |
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"Dancing" was really never a big thing in my life, but
finding the perfect "partners" was. Many of those
"perfect" partners were often found right here on
Earthboppin including Charles and Ryan. I hope this
message from Richard Rohr helps illustrate this.
Rohr's daily messages were "gifted" to me several
months ago from a dear friend I met when I was 14 in
the 9th grade. I had not heard from her in 50 years but
apparently "our" dance had not missed a beat.
...Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
From the Center for Action and Contemplation
Week Thirty-Five: A Contemplative Heart
A Cosmic Dance
When he teaches about living a contemplative life, CAC
faculty member James Finley often uses an image he
learned from Thomas Merton (1915–1968)—the cosmic
dance. In Merton’s words:
If we could let go of our own obsession with what we
think is the meaning of it all, we might be able to
hear [God’s] call and follow Him in His mysterious
cosmic dance….
For the world and time are the dance of the Lord in
emptiness. The silence of the spheres is the music of a
wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding
the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out
into strange finalities and complex purposes of our
own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness,
absurdity and despair. But it does not matter much,
because no despair of ours can alter the reality of
things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is
always there. Indeed, we are in the midst of it, and it
is in the midst of us, for it beats in our very blood,
whether we want it to or not.
Yet the fact remains that we are invited to forget
ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the
winds and join in the general dance. [1]
Finley expands on Merton’s metaphor in his book The
Contemplative Heart:
Learning to dance the cosmic dance—this is why we are
here on this earth, living the life we are living. At
least this is one way of expressing the heart’s
conviction concerning the need to recognize and move
with the divinity manifested in the primordial rhythms
of the day-by-day life we are living. [2]
There’s a dance of being awake and being asleep, of
being alone and being with others. It’s a dance of
being seen and understood and not seen and understood
at all. There’s a dance of being happy and being sad.
There’s a dance of feeling so happy you think you’re
finally beginning to understand the spiritual
dimension, and then this part where you don’t think you
ever will. The dance of being confused and having
clarity, going back and forth. And if we were to set it
to music, we would say that God is the infinity of the
primordial rhythms of your life, and God waits for you
to find Her there. God is the infinity of the very
rhythms of your day, breathing in, breathing out, being
awake, being asleep, standing up and sitting down.
It’s like God forever comes to visit, but we’re rarely
at home. We’re probably out buying a spiritual book or
something, or getting in an argument with somebody
about God. So we’re always trying to step into this
rhythm.... How can you learn to move with the God-given
Godly nature of the primordial unfolding rhythms of
your life and your passage through time from birth to
death? [3]
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Date: August 29, 2023 at 09:26:05
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ...would you save the last dance for me? |
URL: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Subud |
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Subud, religious movement, based on spontaneous and ecstatic exercises, founded by an Indonesian, Muḥammad Subuh, called Bapak. A student of Ṣūfism (Islāmic mysticism) as a youth, Bapak had a powerful mystical experience in 1925, and in 1933 he claimed that the mission to found the Subud movement was revealed to him. The movement was restricted to Indonesia until the 1950s, when it spread to Europe and America, at first principally among followers of the Russian-born mystical philosopher Georgy Gurdjieff.
The central feature of Subud is the latihan, its only group spiritual activity, which is usually held for an hour twice a week. During latihan, undergone by men and women in separate rooms, members allow the power of God to express itself through unrestrained spontaneous activity. The latihan includes unprogrammed singing, dancing, shouting, and laughter. Participants often report strong feelings of rapture and release, as well as psychological and physical healing. Subud has little doctrinal teaching, except for the belief in divine power and higher centres of consciousness implied by the latihan.
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Date: August 29, 2023 at 17:08:29
From: Nevada, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ...would you save the last dance for me? |
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"It’s a dance of being seen and understood and not seen
and understood at all."
Fortunately both paths can get you to the destination.
Thanks for your thoughts ryan.
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Date: August 29, 2023 at 21:22:17
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ...would you save the last dance for me? |
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subud seems to be the one discipline that corresponds to what that bloke is saying...a practical practice...
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Date: August 29, 2023 at 21:32:40
From: Nevada, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ...would you save the last dance for me? |
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...a practical practice...
...seems like about the last thing most of the world is
thinking much about these days.
I hope that changes fast...
...really fast.
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