What do the traditions teach about the inner meaning and reality of “light”? The teachings of Jesus in Aramaic, the Sufi poets and Hindu sages all point to our essential nature or essence as light. However, attaining to and living from that light presents perhaps the greatest challenge of all to the person-part of us and requires an all-encompassing and uncompromising love. We can call that “Making the Jump to Lightspeed”.
What is love really? How is it working in our lives? What does it mean to get on track with that, to cooperate with that, to become that? Real love is impersonal, and yet intimate with absolutely everything and everyone.
An exploration of our origins out of the vast cosmos, and how the substance of our physical reality is created within stars and supernovas. We are actually the way stars have a conversation. “We are stars wrapped in skin. The light you are seeking has always been within.” – Rumi
Exploring teachings from the Aramaic Jesus, what does it mean to be “spiritually ripe”, and what is the ripening agent? What are we missing in our society that prevents us from being “ripe”?
What is the significance of acceptance as a spiritual act? When inner and outer circumstances appear to be counter to life and to hope, when we are suffering, what do the spiritual traditions teach us? What is the open secret of acceptance that leads to spiritual awakening?
What is spiritual sangha? What are we here for? What is the teaching? What can I expect from sangha, and what must I provide for myself? How can we support one another in sangha going forward?