Spiritual Living Podcast Archive

By Centre for Spiritual Living, Edmonton

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July 12, 2015 Faith and Evolving Consciousness
This week's talk draws wisdom from a deep, [enlightening interview between
comedian Pete Holmes and Fr. Richard Rohr](http://nerdist.com/you-made-it-
weird-253-richard-rohr/).
In understanding sacred texts, literalism is the lowest form of understanding,
whereas faith activates the space within us where there is something holy and
sacred, the kinesthetic experience of the Divine. Faith involves total
conviction. We commit and start to cultivate the seeds of faith we have
planted. Empowered thought thickens into form. Over time, with practice and
nurturing, what we empower becomes our experience.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which
makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. And when we
discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves but allow
passage to its beams."
The path to mature understanding follows the three stages of Construction,
Destruction, and Reconstruction. Reconstruction is the Third Eye, the new
perspective, the new way of seeing, the middle way. When we're entrenched in
our way of being, we can never move into the third way of seeing.
The path to transcendence only occurs through great love or great suffering.
The rational mind cannot comprehend suffering. Nor can it understand the
experience of love. What if we accept what is happening in our lives as if we
had chosen it?
...more
41min
July 05, 2015 Planting Seeds of Faith
Faith requires uncertainty. It requires an intimate, powerful communion with
the Divine where doubt is at the heart of the matter.
There is a difference between faith and certainty; there is a difference
between faith and fanaticism. Faith requires us to live in the Mystery.
It takes great wisdom, love, compassion, and deep caring to stand in the
unknown possibility.
...more
34min
July 05, 2015 Planting Seeds of Faith
Faith requires uncertainty. It requires an intimate, powerful communion with
the Divine where doubt is at the heart of the matter.
There is a difference between faith and certainty; there is a difference
between faith and fanaticism. Faith requires us to live in the Mystery.
It takes great wisdom, love, compassion, and deep caring to stand in the
unknown possibility.
...more
34min
June 28, 2015 The Art of Happiness - Part 2
Our Divine right and natural state of being is Freedom and Joy. When we are
living in freedom and joy, we are more in alignment with our true nature.
Are we ever lonely? Lonely people have a real difficulty with self-disclosure,
communication, and are poor listeners. Yet within all beings, there is a seed
of perfection, and compassion is required to activate that seed, which is
inherent in our hearts and minds. We must show up completely curious,
recognizing the Divinity and One Life in everyone we meet. We must show up
completely present and vulnerable. This is intimacy.
How do we activate intimacy? Through touch, in sharing our innermost self with
another, through connecting with another, through connecting with Nature.
Love wants to be expressed, wherever and however it shows up. We need only
courageously expand our concept of intimacy to include all other forms that
surround us. Although we can practice with one, we can understand that we are
intimately connected to everyone.
If what we seek in life is happiness, and intimacy is an important ingredient
of a happier life, then it clearly makes sense to conduct our lives on the
basis of a model of intimacy that includes as many forms of connection with
others as possible.
...more
45min
June 28, 2015 The Art of Happiness - Part 2
Our Divine right and natural state of being is Freedom and Joy. When we are
living in freedom and joy, we are more in alignment with our true nature.
Are we ever lonely? Lonely people have a real difficulty with self-disclosure,
communication, and are poor listeners. Yet within all beings, there is a seed
of perfection, and compassion is required to activate that seed, which is
inherent in our hearts and minds. We must show up completely curious,
recognizing the Divinity and One Life in everyone we meet. We must show up
completely present and vulnerable. This is intimacy.
How do we activate intimacy? Through touch, in sharing our innermost self with
another, through connecting with another, through connecting with Nature.
Love wants to be expressed, wherever and however it shows up. We need only
courageously expand our concept of intimacy to include all other forms that
surround us. Although we can practice with one, we can understand that we are
intimately connected to everyone.
If what we seek in life is happiness, and intimacy is an important ingredient
of a happier life, then it clearly makes sense to conduct our lives on the
basis of a model of intimacy that includes as many forms of connection with
others as possible.
...more
45min
June 21, 2015 The Best of What Was, Is, and the Next Best Thing
Dr. Rev. Sue Rubin, as the first minister of this Centre, speaks about
homecoming and the unfolding of a principle.
Her teacher Dr. Tom Johnson gave us a powerful truth to practice: _God is. I
am._ When saying this, as we perform the sign language sign for God, it means
we affirm the Divinity that extends above our head into the heavens and
through and beyond, as well as down below the ground we're standing on into
the Earth, further into infinity. And when we stretch our arms out in the
horizontal plane, that represents our expression of the Divine. The spiritual
nature of who we are is exactly what we express through everything we think,
say, feel, and do.
God is, the One and Only Wholeness there is. And God and we are One. There is
One Power. It is the Wholeness of Life. It is right where we are. And it is
clearly demonstrating Itself through every cell and atom of our precious
living temple, our body of God. God within us recognizes Itself as everything
we are.
The power of an idea in its universal spin wants something greater to emerge.
Our mind is the centre of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always
moving towards expansion and fuller expression, and the action of Divine Mind
moving through us creates this expansion and fuller expression.
There is something that is calling from the past, from that which was embodied
as a living idea, and yet what we do now and what we proceed to do tomorrow
have to be something greater. The Divine cannot replicate or duplicate what
was, because what was has already been, and what shall be is born out of what
is. It does this through an orderly sequence of growth. It is something new
that wants to emerge out of something that was created previously, yet not
limited. It needs to be something new, because the Divine cannot change Its
inherent nature. It must operate _in us_ as It does in all planes.
The next best thing is this: We grow consciousness. In all our activity, we do
only one thing: _We grow ourselves_.
What comes next is determined by whether we see ourselves as a human
expressing the Divine, or the Divine expressing as the human.
...more
1h 9min
June 21, 2015 The Best of What Was, Is, and the Next Best Thing
Dr. Rev. Sue Rubin, as the first minister of this Centre, speaks about
homecoming and the unfolding of a principle.
Her teacher Dr. Tom Johnson gave us a powerful truth to practice: _God is. I
am._ When saying this, as we perform the sign language sign for God, it means
we affirm the Divinity that extends above our head into the heavens and
through and beyond, as well as down below the ground we're standing on into
the Earth, further into infinity. And when we stretch our arms out in the
horizontal plane, that represents our expression of the Divine. The spiritual
nature of who we are is exactly what we express through everything we think,
say, feel, and do.
God is, the One and Only Wholeness there is. And God and we are One. There is
One Power. It is the Wholeness of Life. It is right where we are. And it is
clearly demonstrating Itself through every cell and atom of our precious
living temple, our body of God. God within us recognizes Itself as everything
we are.
The power of an idea in its universal spin wants something greater to emerge.
Our mind is the centre of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always
moving towards expansion and fuller expression, and the action of Divine Mind
moving through us creates this expansion and fuller expression.
There is something that is calling from the past, from that which was embodied
as a living idea, and yet what we do now and what we proceed to do tomorrow
have to be something greater. The Divine cannot replicate or duplicate what
was, because what was has already been, and what shall be is born out of what
is. It does this through an orderly sequence of growth. It is something new
that wants to emerge out of something that was created previously, yet not
limited. It needs to be something new, because the Divine cannot change Its
inherent nature. It must operate _in us_ as It does in all planes.
The next best thing is this: We grow consciousness. In all our activity, we do
only one thing: _We grow ourselves_.
What comes next is determined by whether we see ourselves as a human
expressing the Divine, or the Divine expressing as the human.
...more
1h 9min
June 14, 2015 The Art of Happiness - Part 1
This week begins a series looking at the book _The Art of Happiness_ by the
Dalai Lama. Happiness is determined by our state of mind rather than external
events. In other words, we can train ourselves in happiness. It requires
practice and sincere and dedicated effort to live a happy life.
Spiritually speaking, we have four capacities of awareness: sleep, dreaming,
captured by the outside world, and spiritual. Spiritual practice is whatever
supports us in looking within.
There are also four factors of fulfillment for happiness: wealth, worldly
satisfaction, spirituality, and enlightenment. If we can maintain a calm,
peaceful state of mind, then we can be a very happy person. The greater the
level of calmness of our mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and
joyful life.
Here's how we can train our mind for happiness: learning what things align us,
cultivating positive mental states, and eliminating negative mental states.
Our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown, because we
have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are
constantly chasing when we choose experience.
...more
39min
June 14, 2015 The Art of Happiness - Part 1
This week begins a series looking at the book _The Art of Happiness_ by the
Dalai Lama. Happiness is determined by our state of mind rather than external
events. In other words, we can train ourselves in happiness. It requires
practice and sincere and dedicated effort to live a happy life.
Spiritually speaking, we have four capacities of awareness: sleep, dreaming,
captured by the outside world, and spiritual. Spiritual practice is whatever
supports us in looking within.
There are also four factors of fulfillment for happiness: wealth, worldly
satisfaction, spirituality, and enlightenment. If we can maintain a calm,
peaceful state of mind, then we can be a very happy person. The greater the
level of calmness of our mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and
joyful life.
Here's how we can train our mind for happiness: learning what things align us,
cultivating positive mental states, and eliminating negative mental states.
Our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown, because we
have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are
constantly chasing when we choose experience.
...more
39min
June 07, 2015 Give, Give, Give
Hypnotist and inspirational speaker Wayne Lee teaches us that there are three
different areas in life in which it is important to give:
1. Giving to ourselves (to make sure we don't run out of gas).
2. Giving out our genius. Our genius is whatever our passion or purpose is! If we don't give out our genius, we are shortchanging other people.
3. Giving our joy. All we have to do is be in a state of joy, by being fully connected to our Source.
When we are open to give, life expands. GIVE stands for "Generosity In Various
Expressions". We are vibrational beings, and whatever we give out, we get
back.
Life is magic; we live in a world of illusions, and we are creating the
illusions. The only thing that is real, is living from Love.
GIVE can also stand for "God in Vibrational Experience/Expression".
...more
34min

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