63 - Meditation and Quakers
Channel: Art D'Adamo
Date: 2021-02-07

Website:  https://adamford.com

Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKHntD4V0wKObbfGhMAlsLZcaapezpQrL

Body, emotion, intellect, soul/consciousness; meditative exercise; consciousness like the light that lights up a room, illuminating body, emotions, thoughts;  consciousness as subject, but body, emotion, thoughts as objects; consciousness as our inmost, most enduring self; the Spiritual Guide of Michael Molinos; the Cloud of Unknowing; going within appropriate for an immanent God; still to sense the presence; self-referential, self-reflexive processes go to infinity; feedback; Quakers, Quaker meeting; bare room; stain-glass windows not needed; sit in silence; everyone a potential minister; being “led”; implied values; honesty? forgiveness? still the emotions; scripture; mantra; Jesus prayer; still the mind; aside: ability to focus useful in school; spark of God within us; the body as a prison of the soul; Gnostics; Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse; maya; loving the world; the world as a manifestation of the Ultimate Ground of Existence; the positive way (affirming the world) and the negative way (withdrawal from the world); Way of Martha and the Way of Mary; contemplation and meditation, East and West