This week I have being presented with the concept of the apostle Paul as one of the most misunderstood teacher, and mystic. Having the sample of Paul, I encounter a direct message that talked to my heart at this moment in which I am interested in the process of how the non-dual mind mind is formed by prayer and embodiment practices. A beautiful summary has been presented during this week and I would like to have it near to remind me that all human being have access to the Divine Flow , that is always happening and everyone can plug in.
The Mind of Christ – Practice
We encourage you to create some space this week for intentional silence and stillness, using Father Richard’s description of contemplation and “the mind of Christ” as an entry into prayer:
In contemplative practice, we refuse to identify with any one side, while still maintaining our intelligence. We hold the creative tension of every seeming conflict and go beyond words to pure, open-ended experience, which has the potential to unify many seeming contradictions. We cannot know God the way we know anything else; we only know God subject to subject, by a process of mirroring. This is the “mind of Christ” (see 1 Corinthians 2:16). It really is a different way of knowing, and you can tell it by its gratuity, its open-endedness, its compassion, and by the way it is so creative and energizing in those who allow it.
Truly great thinkers and cultural creatives take for granted that they have access to a different and larger mind. They recognize that a Divine Flow is already happening and that everyone can plug into it. In all cases, it is a participative kind of knowing, a being known through and not an autonomous knowing. The most common and traditional word for this change of consciousness was historically “prayer,” but we trivialized that precious word by making it functional, transactional, and supposedly about problem solving. The only problem that prayer solves is us!
Material from Daily Meditations_Center of Action and Contemplation Week Mark 20 – March 25 2022