this blog is the continuation of a genuine mystical tradition, unless you get in daily contemplative time and abstain to a significant degree from "entertainment" then you are just wasting your time and mine !
in those days it was quite inexpensive to stay as a guest, so basically i just had a lot of time to wander, let's call it "retreat"
i took part in the center retreats and daily liturgies, which having spent a lot of my young life in episcopaliananglican boarding schools, never gave me much trouble !
basically i was looking for a teacher who seemed to undesrtand what it was all about and basically that was only toni packer
once you get to a certain level you are not dependent on teachers at all, it's just a lifelong work then by yourself !
it's so really hard to understand you have to look across the generations to find others who understand
how long did you live at springwater for?
ReplyDeletetwo separate occasions, four or five months total ?
DeleteSo you've done resident programs? Even with Cambridge, providence and ZMM?
Deletein those days it was quite inexpensive to stay as a guest, so basically i just had a lot of time to wander, let's call it "retreat"
Deletei took part in the center retreats and daily liturgies, which having spent a lot of my young life in episcopaliananglican boarding schools, never gave me much trouble !
basically i was looking for a teacher who seemed to undesrtand what it was all about and basically that was only toni packer
once you get to a certain level you are not dependent on teachers at all, it's just a lifelong work then by yourself !
it's so really hard to understand you have to look across the generations to find others who understand
its lonely and community is an illusion !
How can I come to love Ouroboros, Andrew?
ReplyDeleteyou have this continual problem of proxying into the abstract, you need to give real life details more !
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