Aaron: Imagine yourselves new at high diving. You’ve climbed up on the diving board. You walk to the end of the board and look down into the pool. You’ve done it a few times so you know, “I can do this.” Deep breath; you feel prepared. You walk back from the end of the board, turn around at the inward end, take another deep breath, and then one step, two steps, three steps, and you spring onto that end of the board. And just then, looking down, you see a cluster of people, right there below you.
You’re shaking, wobbling on the end of the board. There’s no stopping it. Can you feel that sense of no control? Can you feel it?
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This Arabic and English language chant was recorded at the Oakwood Retreat Center, in Selma, Indiana in October 2019. Featuring John Orr playing the harmonium and leading the sangha.
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Coronavirus—what is a corona? It has two meanings, as far as I can find when I look it up in the dictionary. One is the light around the sun. You are that sun, that essence, with a big corona around you. Could we begin to think of coronavirus as the virus that has come to teach you about your corona, about your radiance?
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Yeshua: My beloved brothers and sisters, I am Yeshua.
Why did I come? Because Love asked! It really is as simple as that. I suppose you could ask, how did I know that he asked? If the one you loved above all else, the most beloved one, said, “Please, will you do this?” you would not think about, “Will it work out? What will the consequences be?” You would say, “Yes.” And there would be no question of hearing the Beloved. The heart hears.
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This English language chant was recorded during the Emerald Isle Virtual Retreat, on April 22, 2020. Featuring John Orr (published with permission) leading the sangha in song.
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