listen
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about contemplative traditions as a means of articulating various understandings of presence. This morning I was chatting to Gabrielle Eastwood about this. She said:
The importance of listening is so critical to many things. “Listen” is the opening word of the Rule of St Benedict. It is about listening with the ear of the heart.
Clearly the context is quite different, but the language seems so appropriate …
12. June 2009 at 05:55
Maybe it’d be more effective to get an experiential hit of the contemp[lative work. I know a guy…
12. June 2009 at 20:35
Cynic.
16. June 2009 at 21:36
No I meant that. Whats the point of a conceptual framework whern you can actually get to the experience?
16. June 2009 at 21:40
Well – you’ve got a point. Although, my initial thinking was not so much about the experience but about getting a sense of the way ‘contemplatives’ use language to talk about the experience.
17. June 2009 at 23:25
From the little that I know, language and rationality sit ‘outside’ of the contemplative and enlightenment experiences.
So there tends to be a lot of text that simply makes no sense, or seems to be some kind of twisty logic or even in the form of some annoyingly unquantifiable fable.
Let me know what else you find.
And in all serious I do know a guy…
18. June 2009 at 22:28
http://www.chenghsin.com/pdf/ci-brochure.pdf