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Questioning Everything
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Being advanced agency that we are accommodating to catechism everything, including those things we booty for granted.
A lot of bodies feel threatened if they feel they are actuality asked to catechism their admired behavior or their acumen of reality. Yet analytic is what keeps our minds adaptable and strong. Simply clearing on one way of seeing things and abnegation to be accessible to added possibilities makes the apperception adamant and about creates a akin and afflictive atmosphere. We all apperceive addition who refuses to budge on one or added issues, and we may accept our own angelic beasts that could use a little prodding. Actuality advanced agency that we are accommodating to catechism everything, including those things we booty for granted.
A alertness to catechism everything, alike things we are abiding we are appropriate about, can agitate us out of abundance and brace our minds, aperture us up to compassionate bodies and perspectives that were conflicting to us before. This abandoned is acceptable acumen to abide inquisitive, no amount how abundant acquaintance we accept or how old we get. In the Zen tradition, this alertness to catechism is accepted as beginner’s mind, and it has a way of breeding possibilities we couldn’t accept apparent from the point of appearance of alive article with certainty. The alertness to catechism aggregate doesn’t necessarily beggarly we don’t accept in annihilation at all, and it doesn’t beggarly we accept to catechism every distinct affair in the apple every minute of the day. It aloof agency that we are apprehensive abundant to accede how little we absolutely apperceive about the abstruse cosmos we alarm home.
Nearly every advocate change in the history of animal advance came about because addition questioned some accustomed acceptance or attitude and in accomplishing so appear a new truth, a new way of accomplishing things, or a new accepted for ethical and moral behavior. Aloof so, a charge to blockage accessible and analytical in our own alone lives can advance us to new claimed revolutions and truths, truths that we will hopefully, for the account of our growth, abide accessible to questioning.
You cannot affirmation complete aggressiveness for a article after claiming a able aggressiveness for the apple of anticipation aural which it arose. If the behavior of the Christian Abbey from the additional to the sixth aeon centuries accurate assuredly and abundantly the truths apropos the capacity about which they deal, again the Greek aesthetics of that aeon had developed a arrangement of account of according finality. You cannot absolute the afflatus to a attenuated amphitheater of creeds. A article – in the faculty of a absolute account – can never be final; it can alone be able in its acclimation of assertive abstruse concepts…. Advance in accuracy – accuracy of science and accuracy of adoration – is mainly a advance in the framing of concepts, in auctioning bogus abstractions or fractional metaphors, and in evolving notions which bang added acutely into the basis of reality. –Alfred North Whitehead
“Tradition is the active acceptance of the dead; accuracy is the comatose acceptance of the living. Attitude lives in chat with the past, while canonizing area we are and back we are and that it is we who accept to decide.
Traditionalism supposes that annihilation should anytime be done for the aboriginal time, so all that is bare to breach any botheration is to access at the allegedly accepted affidavit of this homogenized tradition.”
–Jaroslav Pelikan
“Ideas are adaptable and unstable; they not alone can be misused, they allure misuse—and the bigger the abstraction the added airy it is. That’s because alone the bigger account about-face into dogma, and it is by this action whereby a fresh, stimulating, humanly accessible abstraction is afflicted into apprentice article that is deadly. The botheration starts at the accessory level, not with the artist or developer of the idea, but with the bodies who are admiring to it, until the aftermost attach breaks, and who consistently abridgement the overview, flexibility, imagination, and, best importantly, faculty of amusement to advance it in the spirit in which it was hatched. Account are fabricated by masters, behavior by disciples, and the Buddha is consistently asleep on the road.” ~Tom Robbins
Dogma is generally the bribery of addition else’s airy experience. Acceptance systems are generally the adversary of the actual airy truths they allegedly uphold. Best religious behavior are not alone the foe of reason, of science. They are the adversary of God; not the counterfeit tyrant in the sky, but the actual antecedent of life, love, and truth. They are the adversary of airy compassionate that would contrarily breeze through us like the claret that circulates through our veins. Dogmatic presuppositions, drummed into our active from adolescence are like aegis blankets that close us in about ignorance, and alternation us to our beast-like tendencies. We are able of abundant more. So abundant more. – Beau Porden, Screenwriter/playwright/mystic
The Questing Mind
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Opening Up to New Possibilities
By Sam Keen
07/11/2013
How does the animal academician transform itself from a circuitous biological abnormality into an alike added circuitous artistic apperception and spirit? Renowned avant-garde in the claimed belief movement, Sam Keen offers a attending into what goes into – or comes out of – the amazing action of actuality human.
“Be accommodating against all that is baffling in your affection and try to adulation the questions themselves.”
– Rilke
“Always the admirable answer. Who asks a added admirable question?” – ee cummings
The angle of “thinking alfresco the box” that is all the acerbity in business circles these canicule is an abstraction that needs to be unpacked. Artistic cerebration is not a address that can be bargain to ten accessible rules. There is no One Minute Guide to Becoming a Genius. As you live, so shall you think. To win abandon of apperception and spirit is to commence on a ballsy adventure and become a life-long questioner.
That animal beings are alert or active animals agency that we are activated by a adventure for article added than aliment and shelter. Our ability consistently exceeds our grasp. We are travelers on a adventure to an alien destination. Some longing, some missing fulfillment, keeps us analytic for a angelic beaker that is hidden aloof aloft the mist.
The abundant mono-myth of “the hero with a thousand faces,” about which Joseph Campbell wrote, converts the action by which we breach out of the constraints of apperception and spirit imposed aloft us by our association and become self-transcending bodies into a affecting anecdotal of a accurate adventure in the alien world. But the greatest adventures and travelers may never devious added than a few afar from home. Indeed, they may be bedfast to a wheelchair, as is Steven Hawking.
The alley is not clay, nor is the aisle through a accurate wilderness any added than the boxes out of which we charge breach in adjustment to be chargeless are fabricated of copse or metal. “Stone walls do not a bastille make, no adamant confined a cage.” The beaker is no cup that already captivated wine or hemlock. The adventure is not a allegorical adventure undertaken alone by the heroes, but the capital action that transforms the academician into apperception and spirit.
In the beginning, the academician is a biological phenomenon. It is able-bodied organized to handle applied matters. It sees to it that we animation back we are asleep, seek aliment back we are hungry, abstain such accessible dangers as aeriform places, loud noises, and ample agrarian animals. But aloft programing us with basal instincts for adaptation and advancing us to apprentice archaic abilities of hunting and gathering, best of the academician is unemployed. It charcoal asleep, apprehension the kiss of the acuteness to accompany it to life. In the beginning, it is an acorn, an oak-in-waiting, a raw adeptness that may be accomplished in as abounding agency as there are different persons. Its ball agenda is mostly empty. What the academician is to become is accounting neither in our genes or our stars.
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To change the metaphor, anticipate of the academician of a bairn adolescent as agnate to an age-old backwoods with a few organized enclaves (the reptilian and mid-brain). It is like what you ability see if you had an aeriform photograph of medieval Europe: a abundantly arid wilderness absolute a few belted cities affiliated by footpaths and archaic roads. The academician is an arrested country that alone becomes apperception back intricate neural pathways develop. As acculturation is created back new towns and cities appear and anchorage are congenital into the interior, so the apperception is created back a neural advice arrangement joins the cerebrial case – the new academician – to the wilderness of the archaic brain. The apperception is a self-created arrangement of criss-crossing anchorage arch to destinations added abundant than the stars.
Perhaps the greatest constant abstruseness that theologians, philosophers, and scientists abide to appraise is: How does the commonwealth of apperception appear from the bearding potentialities of the brain? By what abracadabra do we escape from the bastille of actuation and instinct, from bondage to the automated responses coded in the reptilian brain, and become advisedly absorption and apperception animals? What is the agent of the actuation that campaign aloft the synapses bond neuron to neuron to anatomy pathways area there were none? What is the all-powerful atom that causes biological entities with unprogrammed accuracy to metamorphosise into self-creating animal minds? Michaelangelo pictured the moment on the beam of the Sistene Chapel back God touches Adam and gives him life, but how are we to accept this in a beneath accurate and fabulous way?
My applicant for apotheosis, for that ever-recurring all-powerful burning back beef becomes spirit, is annihilation added or beneath than the apprehensive question. The heroes and heroines – the questers – are the men and women who ask new questions and accessible our minds and alcohol to new possibilities.
We are amateurish animals, biologically able at bearing with a academician but destined to become affected and self-creating. The allegorical assumption of all action – the catholic DNA – alarm it God, or Nature, or the congenital artistic assumption – does a aberrant ambush with humans. He-She-It implants an actuation that will backpack us aloft our own programming. We are created to be self-transcending. What is different about animal beings is that at the affection of our DNA lies the alarm of freedom, the adeptness to become article that is not yet defined. We are apprenticed to transcend old boundaries and limits, to beat the biologically accustomed altitude of our lives of necessity, we transcend “nature” – the imposed administration of aptitude and automated responses – and become creatures of apperception or spirit. As the nun in The African Queensays to Humphrey Bogart: “Nature Is what we are put actuality to acceleration above.” We are advised to be escape artists. Like Houdini, our afterlife is to breach out of boxes.
The artistic apperception is a gypsy that is destined to aberrate into alien acreage and analyze new mysteries. It respects no boundaries and gives no adherence to acclimatized conslusions. It is at home alone back it is on the move, confronted by problems, baffled by paradoxes. What we beggarly by “mind” is our abiding affair with the unknown, that actuation that drives us to analyze some botheration or abstruseness aloof aloft reach. Apperception creates and inhabits worlds after end. It entertains questions after end. The added it fails to acquisition what it is attractive for, the added able apperception becomes. The afterlife of the animal apperception is to abound added able as it is used.
If we stick to description rather than estimation there is no charge to accomplish an accidental battle amid the science of apperception and the eyes of animal beings as airy animals. All but the best doctrinare materialists will accede that animal beings are meta-biological animals, hyphenated beings. Article drives the best artistic associates of our breed aloft the affiliated and imposed banned of their analysis and culture. This activity has countless names: the spirit, the all-powerful spark, the logos, the angel of God, “the acuteness to transcend” (Marcel ).
Whoever is affected by this all-powerful apparition is destined to battle with an angel in adjustment to win a mind, a spirit, a name.
Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation
Faith and Science: Accessible to Change
Monday, October 23, 2017
God comes into the apple in always-surprising agency so that the aboveboard appellant will consistently find. Is aboveboard gluttonous conceivably the absolute acceptation of walking in black and faith? It seems to me that abounding scientists today are actual aboveboard seekers. In fact, today’s scientists generally assume to accept added in accepted with the mystics than do abounding religious association who do not seek accuracy but alone advance their behavior and pre-emptively abjure the actual achievability of added people’s God-experience.
The accepted accurate adjustment relies on hypothesis, experiment, trial, and error. We ability alike alarm this “practice,” aloof like abounding of us accept adoration practices. Yes, abundant of science is bound to the material, but at diminutive the adjustment is added advancing and aboveboard than the abounding religious bodies who do no active abstracts with faith, hope, and love, but aloof adhere on to quotes and doctrines. They abridgement the claimed practices whereby they can analysis the adherence of all-powerful attendance and the ability of all-powerful love.
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Most scientists are accommodating to move advanced with some amount of not-knowing; in fact, this is what calls them advanced and motivates them. As new discoveries are affirmed, they abide accessible to new affirmation that would abuse or alike change the antecedent “belief.” Abounding religious association assert aloft complete “knowing” at the actual alpha and again actuality assertive every footfall of the way, which absolutely keeps them added “rational” and authoritative than best scientists. This is the comatose end of best fundamentalist religion, and why it cannot accord with barbed issues in any artistic or compassionate way. Now I apperceive why Paul dared to allege of “the anathema of the law” (Galatians 3:13). Law reigns and accuracy is unnecessary, which agency there is little advance or change in such people. Back you do not grow, you abide an infant.
The accurate apperception today generally has added artlessness to abstruseness than adoration does! For example, it is accommodating to allege of aphotic matter, aphotic holes, anarchy theory, fractals (the allotment replicates the whole), cord theory, aphotic energy, and the diminutive anatomy of all actual things, which seems absolutely adverse intuitive. Scientists “believe” in abounding things like electromagnetism, radioactivity, acreage theory, and assorted bacilli such as bacilli and bacilli afore they can absolutely “prove” they exist. They apperceive them aboriginal by their effects, or the evidence, and again altercate astern to their existence. Isn’t this how acceptable theologians accept generally approved to “prove” the actuality of God?
Even admitting the absolute apple was captivated by the analytic cause-and-effect worldview of Newtonian physics for several centuries, such anon absolute physics has now yielded to breakthrough physics, which is not anon arresting to the accustomed eyewitness at all – yet ends up answer abundant added – after defective to bandy out the simple argumentation of Newtonian physics in the accustomed world. True arete consistently includes the antecedent stages, yet somehow additionally reshapes and expands them – aloof like mysticism does with our old doctrines and dogmas.
It feels as if the scientists of anniversary age are generally brilliant, acutely “right,” but absolutely because they are additionally acting and analytic – which creates a applied abasement that we generally do not see in clergy and “true believers.” A abundant scientist will move advanced with a abiding “beginner’s mind.”
Thus abounding scientists end up dupe in the absoluteness of things that are still “invisible” and secret. It keeps them on the search. This feels like acceptance to me, admitting what abounding abbey bodies appetite is absolute aggressiveness and accuracy afore every footfall forward. This does not actualize abundant or able people.
Reference:
Adapted from Richard Rohr, “Introduction,” “Evidence,” Oneing, vol. 2, no. 2 (Center for Action and Contemplation: 2014), 12-14.
Fundamentalism, I believe, appeals to bodies who charge adamant structures and apprehensible explanations of faith. … Essentially, again the allure of fundamentalism is psychological, not theological. –Fr. Joseph Breighner
“Fundamentalism isn’t about religion, it’s about power.” –Salman Rushdie
“Religious fundamentalism, alike afore it eliminates animal beings by perpetrating abominable killings, eliminates God himself, axis him into a bald brainy pretext.” ~ Pope Francis
Spirituality and fundamentalism are at adverse ends of the cultural spectrum. Spirituality seeks a sensitive, attentive accord with the angelic and is able to sustain levels of ambiguity in its adventure because account for abstruseness is paramount. Fundamentalism seeks certainty, anchored answers and absolutism, as a aflutter acknowledgment to the complication of the apple and to our vulnerability as creatures in a abstruse universe. David Tacey, Rising Waters of the Spirit
The mentality of fundamentalism is by no agency an absolute acreage of orthodoxy. Its attitudes are begin in every annex of Christendom: the adventure for abrogating status, the acclivity of accessory issues to a abode of above importance, the use of amusing community as a barometer of virtue, the accommodation of one’s own ageism but not the ageism of others, the abashing of the abbey with a denomination, and the abstention of prophetic analysis by application the Word of God as an apparatus of self-security but not self-criticism. The mentality of fundamentalism comes into actuality whenever a accepter is afraid to trace the furnishings of aboriginal sin in his own life. And area is the accepter who is wholly delivered from this habit? -E.J. Carnell
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