Good Friday, 2020

The tradition of seeking silence and learning to listen is not a selfish, self absorbed tradition about the participator: it is about human connectedness to Creation, to all things and beings. It is based on a belief that there are dimensions beyond the senses, beyond the cerebral, beyond the purely human and visible world. All is interconnected. 

As one settles to silence and stillness so distractions seem inevitable but emptying oneself is the intended outcome.

The practice does not replace action, it is juxtaposed and is a way to enhance action for focus and centralising on the greater cosmos of creation underpins and supports and vitalises action. All of this is about living life more fully and more abundantly.

Let me note.....it is quite simply about love, which is never selfish or self centred.

A man was crucified today:

Crucified as someone was able to organise it and effect it

Crucified out of fear

Crucified for speaking a truth

Crucified for being a thorn in the side of power brokers, establishment figures

Crucified for honesty

Crucified for stating a claim 

Crucified for being a threat

Crucified for identifying with the marginalised

Crucified for having nothing, being nothing, doing nothing but for love.

This is not writing about a man in Jerusalem 2000 years ago. This is speaking of a man, a woman, a boy, a girl in any and every country of the world today: crucified by injustice, insensitivity, carelessness, economics, for convenience of others, crucified for power and status. Crucifixions are real, hellish and evil.

 From your stillness and silence what do you hear? What will you do?

There is a time for stillness and a time for action,

There is a time for silence and a time for noise,

There is a time to listen and a time to shout.