I missed your podcast but figured that it's hard to come up with top quality guests/material as you do week-in week-out. Don't dilute the quality of your show by feeling you have to come up with something every week. Keep up the great work!
It was interesting to hear your sketch of the relationship between morality and perception, in part because of an aesthetic tension between that sketch and the suggestion of certain Buddhist lines. Generally, and in the Theravedan trading perhaps most explicitly, the terms are considered almost indissoluble. And, indeed, or so I’ve been given to understand, it is suggested that setting one’s moral house in order is prerequisite to attaining a truly fruitful meditative practice… Occidentally, In some respects, this is mirrored in the traditional account of the relationship of the exoteric to the esoteric, with the former construed not as a dilution of the latter, but as propaedeutic, or even foundational…
I was not brought up in a church of any kind. My parents were agnostic. I had a shattering mystical experience when I was 26 y.o. My point is that I had no explicit religious "scaffolding" prior to this event. I sometimes wonder if I am missing something. When I have attempted to "scaffold" (love that image), it doesn't take long for me to feel inauthentic, alienated from myself in the dogma. For this reason, I've given up. I read Christian literature and benefit from it, but the moment I start applying the term too rigidly to myself, I feel boxed in. Not trying to have an Oprah moment :), however, just wondering about your thoughts as to why we even need to identify as Christian (or for that matter, any name given to a faith: Muslim, Jewish, Zoroastrian).
As a second remark, it struck me as interesting (and strangely appropriate) the extent to which you guys discussed Sophiology without mentioning apophatic theology…
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Great conversation, lads. You have earned my subscription.
Vaya con Dios...
I missed your podcast but figured that it's hard to come up with top quality guests/material as you do week-in week-out. Don't dilute the quality of your show by feeling you have to come up with something every week. Keep up the great work!
Glad you're back! Another great episode. Really enjoyed the discussions on the practical side of this renewal.
It was interesting to hear your sketch of the relationship between morality and perception, in part because of an aesthetic tension between that sketch and the suggestion of certain Buddhist lines. Generally, and in the Theravedan trading perhaps most explicitly, the terms are considered almost indissoluble. And, indeed, or so I’ve been given to understand, it is suggested that setting one’s moral house in order is prerequisite to attaining a truly fruitful meditative practice… Occidentally, In some respects, this is mirrored in the traditional account of the relationship of the exoteric to the esoteric, with the former construed not as a dilution of the latter, but as propaedeutic, or even foundational…
I was not brought up in a church of any kind. My parents were agnostic. I had a shattering mystical experience when I was 26 y.o. My point is that I had no explicit religious "scaffolding" prior to this event. I sometimes wonder if I am missing something. When I have attempted to "scaffold" (love that image), it doesn't take long for me to feel inauthentic, alienated from myself in the dogma. For this reason, I've given up. I read Christian literature and benefit from it, but the moment I start applying the term too rigidly to myself, I feel boxed in. Not trying to have an Oprah moment :), however, just wondering about your thoughts as to why we even need to identify as Christian (or for that matter, any name given to a faith: Muslim, Jewish, Zoroastrian).
As a second remark, it struck me as interesting (and strangely appropriate) the extent to which you guys discussed Sophiology without mentioning apophatic theology…
I missed you.
36:30 ours is the only culture that has higher education without spiritual development.
mic drop.