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Stay Home, Stay Here
As coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, millions and millions of us are being asked to stay at home. In an attempt to stop the spread of this virus, we are avoiding public spaces and all non-essential activity.
For many there is a new balance to contend with, one of working from home while the kids are schooled from home. Others now face the reality of no longer having paid work.…
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Being, Insight, and the Heart (Part Two)
Being, Insight, and the Heart (Part Two)
Lately I have been finding that some things have been getting in the way of discerning, or being, with insight. There has been anxiety; questions of practicality and timing; learnt expectations from culture; questions around how other people might be seeing me, perhaps judging me. While Bonnevaux has resolved, there has been something of a stew of anxious expectation and push and pull that has…
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Insight, Being, and the Heart (Part One)
Insight, Being, and the Heart (Part One)
“…then it becomes apparent how the minds insights arise out of the heart’s adventures, how insight comes from going through the situations of life and emerging from them.” (John S. Dunne, The Reasons of the Heart, 98)
These words from the theologian John S. Dunne have been resonating quite strongly of late. I last posted to this blog in October of last year, whilst still a resident of Bonnevaux –…
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Bonnevaux: From The Website Here is a great piece from the Bonnevaux website on some of the history of Bonnevaux: a community within, and the International Retreat Centre of, The World Community for Christian Meditation. The monastic presence at Bonnevaux may go all the way back into the fifth century. Click here and read the full story.
Bonnevaux: In the Steps of the Present Past
Bonnevaux: In the Steps of the Present Past
At Bonnevaux we have a cloister that runs along the front of the Abbaye. This cloister is the last remaining section of what was once four sections of cloister. Before the French Revolution there were three further sections of building that formed a square with the cloister running along its inside walls. This last remaining section of cloister is quite precious, being a direct and physical link…
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Bonnevaux: Settling In(to Silence)
Bonnevaux: Settling In(to Silence)
About five weeks ago I arrived at Bonnevaux. Bonnevaux is the International Retreat Centre of The World Community for Christian Meditation (The WCCM) and is located about 20 minutes south of Poitiers in the south-west of France. I am a part of the resident community for the retreat centre. I hope to write regular posts from Bonnevaux as time goes on.
The last five weeks have been quite a…
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Life on the Edge of an Unjust System
Life on the Edge of an Unjust System
This post was first published as an article on the Australian on-line journal Eureka Street on April 26, 2019 under the title ‘My Newstart Conundrum‘. If you are able and think it worthwhile, please support Eureka Street with a donation.
Recently I was placed on the Federal Government’s Mutual Obligation program, otherwise known as ‘Work for the Dole’. This happened as a result of being on a…
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David’s Place Retreat (November 2018)
David’s Place Retreat (November 2018)
This was first published in a David’s Place newsletter and in the December 2018 edition of ‘Via Vitae’, a newsletter for the oblates of The World Community for Christian Meditation (which can be downloaded from here).
For the last seven years, members of Sydney’s David’s Placecommunity have made their way to St. Benedict’s Monastery, near Arcadia (in Sydney’s north west), for their annual…
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The Caravan: Awareness Without Thought (Part 2)
The Caravan: Awareness Without Thought (Part 2)
As we drove back to the caravan, I could sense the resistance in me. As best as I could, I gave attention to it without thought, without questioning what the resistance might mean. It was simply a time to experience it.
Resistance is not a bad thing. Sometimes it’s a sign that things are moving too quickly for us and we need to take a step back; sometimes it might mean that we are avoiding…
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The Caravan: Awareness Without Thought (part 1)
The Caravan: Awareness Without Thought (part 1)
For the last couple of years or so, myself and some other members of The WCCM have been planning a move. Come the middle of April this year I should be arriving at Bonnevaux, the new international retreat centre for The WCCM. I will be there as part of the live-in community. In the meantime, I am living in ‘transitional’ accommodation: a caravan on site at the Blue Labyrinth Bush Retreatin the…
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Chapter 7.11: Humility This is a post from another blog that is being run in conjunction with Lines From Inbetween. The blog is called The Rule of Benedict: Reflections from Christian Meditators. Posts appear on this blog about once a fortnight.
Ten Bulls 10: In The World
Ten Bulls 10: In The World
Contemplation and action are the same: this is compassion without fatigue.
Divine energy is all there is.
There is no observer; attention is now.
The fearless are love: be Love in the world.
‘Every Christian is called to be a reincarnation of Christ’[1].
We are all saints, fully revealed and on our way; always beginning.
Together we are his body: this is community.
The risen Jesus ate fish and…
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Ten Bulls 9: Reaching the Source
Ten Bulls 9: Reaching the Source
Being is with the Source of all being.
The Source is Abba, the Father of Jesus.
There is no doing, only expression of being.
The point of no return no longer exists.
The Spirit shows the Son, the Son shows the Father.
All are the divine love-life.
Look back to the beginning: this love-life has always been with us.
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Ten Bulls 8. Both Bull and Self Transcended
Ten Bulls 8. Both Bull and Self Transcended
The fulfilment of the heart’s longing is beyond the duality of creature and Creator.
This is undifferentiated consciousness: a consciousness that can no longer see itself.
This is our ‘original face before we were born[1].’
I no longer live, duality is resolved in Christ[2].
Christ-self cannot see itself; the heart is transcended.
‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit[3].’
I dies to…
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Ten Bulls 8. Both Bull and Self Transcended
Ten Bulls 8. Both Bull and Self Transcended
The fulfilment of the heart’s longing is beyond the duality of creature and Creator.
This is undifferentiated consciousness: a consciousness that can no longer see itself.
This is our ‘original face before we were born[1].’
I no longer live, duality is resolved in Christ[2].
Christ-self cannot see itself; the heart is transcended.
‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit[3].’
I dies to…
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Ten Bulls 7. The Bull Transcended
Ten Bulls 7. The Bull Transcended
The bull has vanished: has been lovingly transcended.
The bull has walked as far as ego can.
Ego has been gracefully forgotten.
This is apatheia: passion is ordered, wounds are healed (the scars remain).
Nothing is taken personally.
There is abiding calm.
The grace (the gift) of the Holy Spirit, has brought us this far.
And yet, still the herdsman looks out for something more.
The herdsman…
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Ten Bulls 6. Riding the Bull Home
Ten Bulls 6. Riding the Bull Home
It is safe to let go the rope. The bull is now faithful.
The bull has been loved into gentleness.
Human nature is no longer hidden in struggle.
Herdsman and bull walk as one.
The melody of the heart draws them home: the herdsman plays and guides, the bull listens and carries.
Still the bull is the bull: strong, energetic. This energy is now for life – not resisting what is good.
The mantra is in…
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