Beginning again the study of the Sermon on the Mount, and it is clearer still that the Beatitudes are the primer for changing our mind.
The Beatitudes hammer home the early realization that the hardest thing spiritual growth will ever ask of us is that we change our mind. According to me, nobody ever grew an inch spiritually using the reasoning mind as their "get there" tool. It's an aid...an aid that must needs be used sparingly, but not relied on.
The Beatitudes hammer home the early realization that the hardest thing spiritual growth will ever ask of us is that we change our mind. According to me, nobody ever grew an inch spiritually using the reasoning mind as their "get there" tool. It's an aid...an aid that must needs be used sparingly, but not relied on.
The value of the reasoning mind lies in its leading us not merely to change our mind but to exchange our mind...to upgrade deeper. And the upgrade comes from our apparent downfall...our inability to logically "figure it out." "It" being the vagaries of life itself.
That very crash-and-burn brings us the ladder we need to climb...away from self to Self. We who are weak, miserable, without a clue, discover the Sermon, the first rung of which is the Beatitudes where we read blessed are the poor in spirit, blessed are the meek...whoa! There's the proof that the hardest thing spiritual growth asks of us is that we change our mind because neither "poor in spirit" nor "meek" is what the reasoning mind is looking for.
Then comes the pearl pf great price...we realize that the Beatitudes are the base, the origin, of learning "mirror vision," as in, if it looks bad, get grateful, this is God's gift and our need. The poor in spirit, the meek, etc., all lead to the freeing of self and the grace of gratitude.
We have ceased fighting anything and anyone is proving its worth. Its worth being in faith that God has our back, we need fight no more forever.
Thank you.
That very crash-and-burn brings us the ladder we need to climb...away from self to Self. We who are weak, miserable, without a clue, discover the Sermon, the first rung of which is the Beatitudes where we read blessed are the poor in spirit, blessed are the meek...whoa! There's the proof that the hardest thing spiritual growth asks of us is that we change our mind because neither "poor in spirit" nor "meek" is what the reasoning mind is looking for.
Then comes the pearl pf great price...we realize that the Beatitudes are the base, the origin, of learning "mirror vision," as in, if it looks bad, get grateful, this is God's gift and our need. The poor in spirit, the meek, etc., all lead to the freeing of self and the grace of gratitude.
We have ceased fighting anything and anyone is proving its worth. Its worth being in faith that God has our back, we need fight no more forever.
Thank you.
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