When you sit for Meeting and see only chessmen on a board around you, you’ve lost touch with yourself.
Who knows whose game has you trapped, much less in what game.
Example of miscommunication:
“Are you Saved?”
“Are you Self-Realized?”
“Are you Yielded?”
Before Self-Realization, my belief that truth or the mystery could be found and answered in a woman’s love, classical music or jazz, a fine set of books. And thus the constant sorrow interspersed with flashes of delight. Now, further along, a taste of energy that goes so far beyond as well as a dryness of what’s been lost.
As for the girls I desired in high school? How common! [Sex and spirituality are closer and more essential than is often acknowledged. My, this could fill volumes!]
3 July, ’77 … evening Quaker Mtg at Dory Matson’s, the Wilkenings were there … Ellensburg?
First Mtg after summer: 20 adults, five children.
Me, thinking of the Mountains and Rivers sutra
and our Meeting’s love of hiking-skiing-camping
3:X: Been wondering about the break with the ashram, whether it even still exists …
What is the role of religion in a “man’s world”?
To give death meaning?
To uphold what’s good, noble, heroic?
To overcome the Little I?
Meeting last Sunday was at Michael and Tarn’s …
My first Quaker memorial service was Ken Scott’s …
The difficulty most had with the silence, women whispering (gossiping?) to husbands, etc., a packed room — having many standing didn’t help. The service began with the family singing songs informally …
He was 31 …
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JESUS APOLLONIUS
Did Christianity change the Romans?
Or did they change Christianity?
Their vestal virgins redressed as nuns?
Thus, the Reformation
as another uprising of Germanic tribes
against Roman tribute
The mafia
supports its church
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ARE WE GETTING CLOSER TO QUAKERS OR ZEN?
“There were no representatives of the gods inside; the place was empty, and the secret shrine contained nothing” — Pompey, on the Second Temple of Jerusalem
“They worship on the clouds and the Spirit of the heavens” — popular saying of the Jews, recorded in Juvenal.
Geeze, is that all it takes to confound Empire?
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From Spiralbound Cascadia with commentary.
Jnana's Red Barn 