Posted in God on Mar 31st, 2009 9 Comments »
Sri Neem Karoli Baba, known affectionately as Maharajji to followers, was quite a presence. You may not know his name, but many readers will know some of his followers — Ram Das, author of the classic Be Here Now, and Krishna Das, whose recording of chants are easily searched for on Youtube.com and remains one [...]
Posted in jesus on Mar 31st, 2009 2 Comments »
Andrew Harvey is an interesting writer whom I had the chance to see in a small conference in Austin, Texas a few years ago. I’d enjoyed much of his book, The Son of Man, and enjoyed hearing him in a room with, perhaps some 40 people.
Harvey also wrote the introduction to Shambhala’s excellent Teachings of [...]
Posted in from the path on Mar 20th, 2009 6 Comments »
I suppose it’s a small difference, but it makes quite a bit of difference.
Prayers pop out now and then, at least for me, and this morning I found myself saying, “Please be with me today, God…” and, almost at once, I realized the prayer should be from a different angle. “God, may I be with [...]
Posted in practice on Mar 16th, 2009 4 Comments »
Longtime readers will know that one of my favorite, if not the favorite, writers about Christianity is the remarkable Frederick Buechner, and I cannot recommend him enough, His Whistling In The Dark is, quite simply, the Christian classic of the past fifty years.
I came across a remarkable quote from his anthology of daily readings, Beyond [...]
Posted in practice on Mar 15th, 2009 3 Comments »
A quote for Sunday:
“Jesus made a special point of discouraging the laying of emphasis upon outer observances and, indeed, upon hard-and-fast rules and regulations of every kind. What he insisted upon was a certain spirit in one’s conduct, knowing that when the spirit is right, details will take care of themselves. Yet, in spite of [...]
Posted in from the path on Mar 12th, 2009 7 Comments »
If you haven’t spent time with the ancient Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, a remarkable book which has been translated into English more times than any other book — save the Bible — you’re missing something. You can read the briefest of explanations here. I can promise this — to journey through the book [...]
Posted in from the path on Mar 10th, 2009 4 Comments »
“I thank you, Father, because you have hidden these things from the learned
and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants.”
Jesus
Luke 10:21
One thing I have to say which is and isn’t related to what I wanted to write.
Usually, this kind of quote is illustrated by an image of Jesus and a child. Usually, in the [...]
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Blessings,
Brian Robertson
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