The practice of remembering God, which is found in Sufism (Dhikr) but also in other forms in the Orthodox Christian tradition (Kyrie Eleison / « Russian Pilgrim » …) is the path to the heart of the being and each ritual, each religious and secular act, aims to become both the support and the manifestation of this God-remembering practice.
– « Remembering » is also the etymological origin of the Practice of Mindfulness, as taught by the Buddha.
In the authenticity of this present without words, without construction or identification,
In the realization of the Profound Nature.
There is no longer any difference between the practice of remembrance, between Dhikr and Mindfulness.
Dhikr and mindfulness are a single realization.
The conceptual, emotional, cultural scaffolding is the means of this realization. The boat.
You have to have crossed and set foot on the other side of the bank (have penetrated far enough within your Nature) to realize that the boat has become useless.
©FJ OCT 2024
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« Remembering, » in terms of my previous, Christian, background, was billed as meditation. Actually, it was a very narrow concentration on, and eulogising of, the crucifixion. It was a search for clever ways of expressing ever more gushing sentiment.
« Remembering, » rather, is a matter of conscious awareness. And God, if that idea has meaning in this, seems, to me, to be immanent in that consciousness, as in any surroundings.
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I abhor gush sentimentality.
This is a radical turn-off to me.
Immanence needs transcendance.
Man’s soul keep calling for that transcendance, one way or another, as long as it is not fed with it.
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