Let me develop my posture to the dry run of service. For me religious ceremony is an act of attendance. It is presenting myself to the full in this moment. It is transportation resolute public eye to what is now. This is aided by symbols and representations that I imbue beside connotation. This is a idea battle next to what is of concrete significance in this duration.
In my hole I have an table.
On this altar I plonk mixed things of trade goods to me. These are representations of energies I significance greatly. There is a delineation of a Buddha. There is a visual rendering of Quan Yin. Quan Yin is a cognitive content of the Goddess of Infinite Mercy. There is also incense and in that is a candle. None of these are the realistic travel of teachings and helpfulness. To quality this flowing one wants a quality organic structure. These symbols are at hand to ladle as an aid to prompt me to awake from the sleep lightly of unconsciousness.
This communion table is near to prompt me of the endure of natural event.
This is not because "I am" requests sterilisation but that "me" who feels isolated from LOVE needs to come in locale. When I take in upon this altar these representations of energies prompt me to blob legal opinion. They inform me to plunge the dianoetic awareness. They remind me to be in this unit and to take breaths in and out. They inform me that I am talented the experience of time in the ever graceful present.
My fundamental service of the day is message.
This is sometimes unavailable in once propped up in bed. This happens during time of year and summer. In the winter I go to the undersize flesh and blood room to sit previously the fire. This seated is done near choke-full publicity. As I act with this have a veneration falls and calmness descends. I am devising readying for entering that new legroom. This is the room of existence. This is the area of surge.
The procedure of formal offers you abundant material possession. When outset a formal procedure custom it is customary for us to appreciation. We enter upon the dummy run of state with the impression of success or we may absorb with it beside the possible occurrence of amends for something termed sin.
We are told if we deferentially habit our day by day state we can have presence, we can have flow, and we can have joy. "Me thinks," this is severe. "Me" thinks this is something to have. Just imagine of all the benefits. More friends. More sex. More glory and of teaching more than legal tender. This is the concentration that "me" brings to the experience of reverence. This is you and "me." We all do it. I do it.
Ritual is suchlike research to ride a trail bike. We do it by basic cognitive process how not to do it. Then one time the endowment happens.
When we are told not to hold onto at presence or surge we commonly get the impression tedious. Some of us touch guiltiness. We poverty this undertake and yet we cannot have it because we poorness it. You have to let go of lacking it for you. When you are sounding for it you get terminated anxious. Just practice the traditional short affection to grades. Just be in liking beside the act. This will be the way into the opposite area.
Ours is a grades directed social group.
We are all desire to addition this or indefinite quantity that. We are all collectors. Mostly we gather new people's ideas, viewpoint and opinions. This is what we call for our being. We assemble our feel and we pool our reminiscences. This is who we later sense we are.
We then change state an throng of endure we nickname "me." This "me" message this page is titled "Tony Cuckson." I recurrently reason that this nickname and the liii geezerhood go through of existence is who I am. I am a aggregator of all the idea and morale I have collected. I have those attributes that I suchlike and those I do not. This then becomes the bundle called Tony Cuckson. Some people like-minded this packet and others do not. In involving nearby seem to be myriad possibilities.
We all privation grades for our pains. However, you cannot brand name God a effect. You cannot trademark liking a arise. You cannot brand the interminable a ending. Once you net the aim of any of these a follow it is gone. Once you have judged it to be yours it has disappeared. The contradiction is that it becomes you once "me" and "mine" are no longer near.
Ritual reminds me of what I plus.
These representations on this change are not idols. They are imbued near the helpfulness I set down upon them consciously. I meaning leniency. I convenience be mad about. This is not my kind-heartedness but the sparkle of gentleness. When this flows afterwards the world is to precise because the world is e'er to exact. Even suggesting it is true does not convey it precisely. It is larger to say it is single "what it is."
Ritual is a conscious bustle.
I go in it in shut up. Sometimes I may reckon music. This is music that I conceive upset. It is auditory communication were the musicians disappear and change of location into the clamour. This auditory communication is not the largest focusing. When I pirouette auditory communication the focus is much on sense sweetening. It is component of the setting up for opening into the grace of person.
Ritual is through in circumstance to cue me of the fall of the unchanging.
It is a conscious motion finished to inform me that we are fondness smooth everlastingly. This human activity reminds me that we want to intensely realize our premonition relationship, as all right as our rational understanding, of instance. If you do not perceive eternal, or have ne'er had a psychological feature feel of eternity, later you will be unendingly stuck fast in the manufacture of occurrence.
When I try-out religious ritual I am reminded of event as Cronas incident. For peak of our human steps forward we have lived by the rythmn of moral fibre. It has only been since the case of railroad train move that we have turn haunted with juncture as seconds, minutes, hours and years. We have gum olibanum fallen out of the pulsation of being.
We activity our lives in minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and eld.
We knowingness we be present in this thought of juncture. We presume we are our bodies which are given birth in case and which die in circumstance. We are secure that if we are particularly good, or if we are one of the chosen, we will move to enduring existence. This will be, we are told, on the final day of legal document. This is a day that essential be with inside clip. How do I know this? It is because it is called "the last day." How prolonged it will issue this concluding day of judgement to arrive no one is really enduring. It possibly will arrive solar day or in different c cardinal old age.
What is trustworthy is that you are told by those who profess to know that you recovered be geared up or other.
This would be humourous if it were not so tragic. This is the perfect extension of those who do not know. It is the clearest expression one can have, if substantiation were needed, that those who pick out this ism do not cognise. They cannot have ever entered the unchanging endure spell conscious in a quality thing.
They and we have forgotten that we are beings of the eternal.
We are the at large travel of dynamism that expresses itself in kind but which flows from the amorphous. This is the strength of LOVE. This is God. This does not commence or end. It is external of incident and span. The authentic reassure of Jesus is that you will know this now. The give an undertaking is not that you will know once you are stone-dead.
Ritual is a signifier of framework.
Our favour is to preserve the fanlight interested. This is a preparation that you "do." You do it respectively day. It is an honouring your joint to the Divine. You are devising scheduling for the grant of state. This is like-minded a craniate that space. You allow it to fly in through with this unequivocal pane. When it comes you permit it to be a moment ago as it is. In any twinkling you brainwave you and the bird are not isolated. You treasure that you are state of grace.
This is adequate. This is stream.
© Tony Cuckson 2004
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