ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for November 5, 2023
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Dear Ones -
One of my spiritual practices is what in Buddhism is called Tonglen. In the Christian tradition a similar practice would be called “petitionary prayer.” The practice is one where we consciously take the suffering of the world into ourselves and, then, send forth in its place loving-kindness and compassion, peacefulness, and ease. At the moment there is a lot of suffering going on in this world. Some of it the result of natural disasters. Much of it the product of human evil. What, in this kind of world, does it mean to pray “thy kingdom come.”
I called the talk I offered in Ordinary Life this week -
How to Live and Love in this World
and spoke to this complex issue.
As part of this time I gave out a handout summarizing the significant talks since beginning the theme of “walking the way” last Spring. A copy of that handout is on the Ordinary Life website.
This talk also includes an invitation for those of you for whom Ordinary Life matters to do the work that will be required to make this gathering your class so that it can continue into the future as a guide and resource for people who are seeking to conform their theology and belief system to “what is.”
That’s a brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.
The audio version of the talk has some significant differences from the text I spoke from. You can find the text of the talk, the presentation slides and the audio version of the talk using the links below.
Our podcast, “In Between,” can be accessed through the Ordinary Life web site.
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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