ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for September 29, 2024
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Dear Ones -
I began the teaching I offered this week by giving a “summary” of the past nine month’s teaching in Ordinary Life. The bullet-points are:
The Sacred Stream can’t be put in a bucket - it flows.
Awareness of being in the Sacred Stream brings discomfort.
Appreciating and benefiting from this awareness means moving from one developmental level to another.
Our experience of the Sacred Stream is shaped by the territory it flows through.
Experiencing the Sacred Stream an experience of non-duality.
These are fraught and stormy times. Buddha’s teaching of the raft used to cross from knowledge and information to wisdom and understanding has led me to think about the craft we are on during these times. Out of what should it be built? I’m going to be focusing on this between now and the election. The first plank in the raft is that we learn to speak - and hear - the truth. We have gotten as a country into an emotional and relational regression where the clearly unacceptable has been more and more accepted. What is truth and how do we learn to hear and speak it?
That’s a very brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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