Our brains evolved to trick us into automatic choices for survival. Those choices don’t fit very well into our modern context.

We gain freedom of choice through our spiritual practices.

 

Each Sunday we practice one of the ancient contemplative practices together. We have made audio from these Sunday meditations available so you can practice on your own.

 

If we follow Jesus, serving those hurt by oppressive systems is our work.

But Jesus also taught us to change the systems that hurt people in the first place.

If we want to change the world, the job before us is to rebalance our win-lose systems.

 

 

Meditation is an essential practice on the spiritual journey. But it challenges all our established internal habits. That means to gain the benefits of the practice, we need to develop some complementary skills — staying when we want to leave — seeing when we want to avoid — settling in for a long journey with both our light and dark sides.

 

The practice of spiritual detachment helps us cut through our false self to excavate our deepest desires and to set about attaining them.

 

When we find ourselves looking into the abyss, we struggle to reverse course because our path there was unconscious. Spiritual practices help us to “wake up”, observe our false-selves and discern the next right step.

 

A fearless inventory of how you spend time — and money…

These are powerful spiritual tools. They tell us if our actions line up with what we want to be our values.

Have a listen.

 

Sermon from NRCC on 5 May 2019