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Kirtanman
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 Posted - Jun 13 2009 : 10:03:50 PM
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One of the most powerful, beautiful and accurate overviews of meditation I have have read.
It's written from a Gnostic Christian perspective (by Tau Malachi at the Sophian Gnostic forum) -- yet, like all accurate consciousness and liberation related teachings, transcends the model it utilizes -- and offers value for all who are seeking-finding-knowing-being-extending the Truth of This Loving Awareness:
Gnosis in Repose: Meditation
In the Psalms it is written, “Be still and know that I am God.” In the Gospel it is proclaimed, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” These two teachings are intimately connected, so as to say, “Be still, look and see the kingdom of heaven, and seeing, know the source of all – God.”
To “be still” means to become calm, peaceful, and to abide in the presence of awareness – focused awareness. This is the state of kavvanah, peaceful abiding, concentrated. To “know” is to acquire insight, understanding and wisdom, to look and see deeply, penetrating with focused awareness. When we look and see in this way, fully aware and concentrated, the distinction between the observer and observed vanishes – the result is insight into the true nature of the object seen, a state of pure awareness, pure being.
Now, a common form of hitbonenut – meditative contemplation in a state of kavvanah, is to meditate upon the glory of God in creation, nature. When we engage this, taking a flower as an example, and we look into the heart of the flower, what we see are clouds, sunlight, minerals, time, the whole of the good earth and cosmos. If there where no clouds and no rain, there would be no flower – and so it is with the many other elements that compose “flower”; looking and seeing the heart of the flower, the true being and nature of the flower, what we see is everything that is not-flower, yet there is the flower in all of its sublime beauty.
This profound interdependence and interconnectedness – or this interbeing, is the inmost nature or heart of all, the sacred unity underlying all; when we gaze into this no-thingness, which is every-thingness, we gaze into God, the Holy One, and we recognize that all is, indeed, the glory of God, Ain Sof, the One-Without-End.
In this there is peace, in this there is joy, in this there is true communion, and it is in this that the Spirit of God speaks in our heart, in our being; indeed, God speaks as our heart, as our being, as all being – the Holy Interbeing, one and many.
In this way we are Spirit-connected, becoming aware of our innate interconnectedness, interbeingness, and truly we look and see the kingdom of heaven near to us, and in the very experience of being we know God. If we wish to define “Gnosis” or “Da’at” in the simplest way, it is this; it is the state of knowing being, or pure radiant awareness.
If and when we meditate in this way something very wonderful and powerful happens; not only do we recognize the interbeing of apparently external objects, but of everything apparently internal as well – the interbeing of all our thoughts and emotions, all of the aspects and levels of our consciousness, our being, and the appearance of the “sinner” and “saint” vanish, there is only Integral Being.
If and when we meditate in this way, there is something even more wonderful and powerful that happens – naturally and spontaneously there is love and compassion, for ourselves, for others, for all; the whole of ourselves, and everyone and everything, is included in our heart, a most intimate embrace of knowing, loving, being.
This is the foundation of the gnosis of Christ – the repose of being, Interbeing; and we may say that this is the gnosis of the Living Yeshua, the gnosis of Living Awareness.
In this we know the Way, Truth and Life Divine, and we come to the Living Father, the Living Mother, the Holy One – Integral Being.
Naturally, as our meditation deepens we acquire insight into great mysteries, consciousness expands and opens to new dimensions, and knowledge of God and union with God dawns in our experience – the Gnostic experience, the Enlightenment experience, unfolds.
This, in essence, is the Way of Gnosis, the Way of the Living Yeshua…nothing more and nothing less than this: “Be still and know that I am God.”
Amen.
May we be blessed and empowered to abide in Hayyah Yeshua – the Living Yeshua; amen.
Blessings & shalom!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia
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Originally Posted at:http://www.sophian.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1507" target="_blank"> br / br / http://www.sophian.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1507
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