WE ARE EXPLORING THE PRACTICE OF HEAVENLINESS
+ Continuing with the 12 styles of the Mandalaprocess, we are exploring the style of Love and Compassion.
+ It is bad
religion to deify doctrines and creeds. While indispensable to religious life,
doctrines and creeds are only so as signposts. Love alone is the hitching post.
Doctrines, let’s not forget, supported slavery and apartheid; some still
support keeping women in their places and gays and lesbians in limbo. Moreover,
doctrines can divide while compassion can only unite. In other words, religious
folk, all our lives, have both to recover tradition and to recover from it.
+ And we know there has been and continues to be too many
examples of “bad religion” on our planet.
We are the wise and courageous pioneers called “both to recover
tradition and to recover from it.” Do you have a passion for this? What are you doing to transform your
religion? What can you do? What will you do? How can we engage people of all religions to
become passionate about compassion,
peace, justice and sustainable abundance for all?
+ The 12 styles of Mandala: Creating An Authentic Spiritual
Path: An InterSpiritual Process by Edward Bastian are listed in SE206.
+ To get inspired and illuminated by Ed Bastian, I invite you to set aside some time for these videos: Seven Steps of InterSpiritual Meditation (11 minutes) | 15 minute introduction to InterSpiritual Meditation and the Mandala Process | 2 hour lecture & conversation
+ Spirituality & Practice offers abundant resources on the practices of Love & Compassion: The Practice of Love | The 12s Gallery on Love | The Practice of Compassion | The 12s Gallery on Compassion
+ I would love it if you offered a guest post on this practice or any practice. And, I have work to do on my Heavenliness page. Maybe you can help. Send an email with the subject “Heavenliness” or “Love” or “Guest Post” to John@abundancetrek.com.
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