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bodhidave<a href="https://micro.blog/activitypub/thisness" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@thisness</a> I wrote a thesis years ago that focused on this passage from from the 4th c. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/contemplative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemplative</a> Christian theologian, Gregory of Nyssa:In this way the mighty David became intoxicated and went out of himself: he saw, while in ecstasy, that divine beauty which no mortal can behold, and cried out in those famous words: *Every man is a liar* [cf. Psalms 116.11], thus giving us some hint of that ineffable treasure. (Commentary on the Canticle of Canticles, 10)🙂 🙏

bodhidaveI've studied and practiced <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/contemplative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemplative</a> traditions rather intensively for a long time. And it seems to me the heart of those traditions and their practice is something both elusive and simple:the utter wonder that anything at all is happening.And a best way to realize and honor and appreciate that, is, as <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zen</a> teacher Mazu put it, to just "not contrive." It's always already this — before we have a plan, or a theology, or even any thought-up ideas.

GetMusic - Free Bandcamp CodesFree download codes:Michael Herter — Audio Music Library for Videos - AMBIENT"subtle melodies and atmospheric soundscapes"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bandcampcodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bandcampcodes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ambient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ambient</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/soundscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#soundscape</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atmospheric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#atmospheric</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/background" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#background</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/melancholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#melancholic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#life</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#documentary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/healing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#healing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hypnotic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypnotic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meditation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peaceful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#peaceful</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meditative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meditative</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#universe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/romantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#romantic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/calm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#calm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contemplative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemplative</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sleep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sleep</a><a href="https://getmusic.fm/l/lyNSiC" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://getmusic.fm/l/lyNSiC</a>

bodhidave1`2A mention in another thread yesterday of Plato's use of mystery traditions imagery prompted me to check his references to Bacchus/ Dionysius. They're fun. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Plato</a> was highly creative, and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> for him was ultimately a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/contemplative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemplative</a> practice.In his *Ion,* he's looking to have Socrates suggest that, unlike the sophists, philosophers actually have inspired insight, but, unlike the poets, philosophers' inspiration doesn't eclipse their sense of self. There he says this about the poets:

GetMusic - Free Bandcamp CodesFree download codes:Michael Herter — Audio Music Library for Videos - AMBIENT"subtle melodies and atmospheric soundscapes"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bandcampcodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bandcampcodes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ambient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ambient</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/soundscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#soundscape</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atmospheric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#atmospheric</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/background" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#background</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/melancholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#melancholic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#life</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#documentary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/healing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#healing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hypnotic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypnotic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meditation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peaceful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#peaceful</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meditative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meditative</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#universe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/romantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#romantic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/calm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#calm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contemplative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemplative</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sleep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sleep</a><a href="https://www.getmusic.fm/r/michael-herter-audio-music-library-for-videos-ambient?utm_campaign=catalog&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.getmusic.fm/r/michael-herter-audio-music-library-for-videos-ambient?utm_campaign=catalog&utm_source=mastodon</a>

bodhidaveLanguage for expressing <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/contemplative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemplative</a> practice can sound hyperbolic and romantic ... until you find it's matter-of-factly descriptive of what you're experiencing.In tonight's <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meditation</a>, the practice came to expression for me this way:Be the miracle that is this moment — in not being anything that you aren't.

bodhidave2/And I think the anonymous 14th c. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/contemplative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemplative</a> author of *The Cloud of Unknowing* understood our mind's conscious attention works that way. Attention is a kind of "mental light" that extends towards a thought or phenomenal object and illuminates it and touches it and grasps it. And he recommended that we sometimes practice "letting go" of our grasped thoughts and mental objects.That is what <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/unknowing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unknowing</a> is.

bodhidaveThis evening's <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/contemplative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemplative</a> rumination:I sometimes <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/meditate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meditate</a> in my sleep. And that helps me realize that my waking thinking "ego" self isn't the starting point — like sleep, it comes from somewhere; it's generated; it's an expression.And that further helps me in allowing a kind of balance between the need to dis-identify with and let go of the ego, on one had, and allowing a kind of embrace with its occurrence, one another.Our waking, thinking, egoic self is a sample of the living truth.

bodhidaveIn Christian <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/contemplative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemplative</a> traditions through the centuries our desire to seek the divine has been understood as something prompted in us by the divine. The desire to experience the divine was a manifestation of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/grace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grace</a> Hard to put into words well but in tonight's <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meditation</a> there was a felt sense for how being awake and having thoughts is not an event I can take credit for. It's something generated from a more fundamental living process.Being awake and thinking is a manifestation of grace.

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