[MD] adios

[david buchanan]

Adios, Kevin:

To return the favor, I draw your attention to a small article from 5/17/04 
edition of "Catholic News".

Ego must be transformed to create healing presence, priest says

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Individual ego must undergo a transformation if a person 
wants to be a healing presence to others, Franciscan Father Richard Rohr 
told Catholic hospital administrators gathered in New York. The healing 
presence cannot be a matter of the mind or will alone, but is possible only 
through involvement of the total person, he said. Drawing on the thought of 
Ken Wilber, a Colorado-based writer who emphasizes an integral approach to 
psychology and problems of society, Father Rohr said the first function of 
religion is to establish identity and create meaning for the self. But 
people will become rigid in their identities unless they go on to what he 
said is the second function of religion -- helping people "learn to start 
drawing on a larger resource." Father Rohr, an author and retreat director, 
is founder and director of the Center for Action and Contemplation in 
Albuquerque, N.M. Speaking in New York May 16, Father Rohr gave the keynote 
address to the annual weeklong Catholic Healthcare Administrative Personnel 
Program, held at St. John's University with co-sponsorship by St. Vincent 
Catholic Medical Centers.

Happy trails,
dmb


>From: "kgt83dr at yahoo.com" <kgt83dr at yahoo.com>
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>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: [MD] adios
>Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:56:41 -0700 (PDT)
>
>All,
>
>I first subscribed to MD last July.  Since then I've had the great pleasure 
>to learn
>a little about many of you through the messages you post here; your 
>thoughts
>and feelings about your experiences, your beliefs and your philosophies.  
>Thank
>you.  I hope the experience has been as pleasurable for you.
>
>Lately though I find myself spending more time here but for the wrong 
>reasons.
>So I have decided to take my leave.  Best wishes and Godspeed to you all.
>
>Please accept the following as a gift.  It is from chapter two of Richard 
>Rohr's
>book, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer.
>
>      Jesus calls us to exactly what the Zen master calls his students to. 
>I once
>      stayed in a Zen monastery in Japan. The master was calling monks who 
>had
>      been there for years to what they called "beginner's mind." 
>Similarly, one of
>      Jesus' favorite visual aids is a child. Every time the disciples get 
>into head
>      games, he puts a child in front of them. He says the only people who 
>can
>      recognize and be ready for what he's talking about are the ones who 
>come
>      with the mind and heart of a child. It's the same reality as the 
>beginner's
>      mind. The older we get, the more we've been betrayed and hurt and
>      disappointed, the more barriers we put up to beginner's mind. We must 
>never
>      presume that we see. We must always be ready to see anew. But it's so 
>hard
>      to go back, to be vulnerable, to say to your soul, "I don't know 
>anything."
>
>      Try to say that: "I don't know anything." We used to call it tabula 
>rasa in
>      Latin. Maybe you could think of yourself as an erased blackboard, 
>ready to be
>      written on. For by and large, what blocks spiritual teaching is the 
>assumption
>      that we already know, or that we don't need to know. We have to pray 
>for the
>      grace of beginner's mind. We need to say with the blind man, "I want 
>to see."
>
>      Spirituality is about seeing. It's not about earning or achieving. 
>It's about
>      relationship rather than results or requirements. Once you see, the 
>rest
>      follows. You don't need to push the river, because you are in it. The 
>life is
>      lived within us, and we learn how to say yes to that life. If we 
>exist on a level
>      where we can see how "everything belongs," we can trust the flow and 
>trust
>      the life, the life so large and deep and spacious that it even 
>includes its
>      opposite, death. We must do this, because it is the only life 
>available to us,
>      as Paul wrote to the Colossians, "You have died [the small ego self], 
>and the
>      life you now have is hidden with Christ in God [the Godself]. When 
>Christ is
>      revealed - and he is your life - you too will be revealed in all your 
>glory with
>      him" (Col. 3:3 -4).
>
>Thank you all.
>
>
>Kevin
>
>
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