#bede griffiths

Dalla mente ricolma d’impressioni che provengono da ogni dove, alla non-mente priva – in apparenza – di qualunque tipo di pensiero, ossia di costrutto psichico volontario. Allorché il presente spicca come unica scelta di vita, la calma predomina senza il benché minimo sforzo. Tutto ciò e quant’altro ancora nei seguenti aforismi di: – B. Alan Wallace – Ajahn Chah – Bede Griffiths – Bhagavad Gita –…

Henri Le Saux e Bede Griffiths, monaci benedettini divenuti sannyasin cristiani in India, hanno profondamente influenzato la spiritualità cattolica del Novecento. Fondarono lo Shantivanam Ashram, promuovendo dialogo interreligioso, preghiera contemplativa e meditazione. Griffiths vedeva nella meditazione il “matrimonio” tra razionalità occidentale e intuizione orientale: concentrando la mente,…

Believe it or not, I’ve started a kind of Tarot card reading business! It’s something I’ve kind of fallen into since first encountering Tarot cards during our family’s year in Spain. (If interested, you can read about my Tarot journey here, here, here, here, here, and here.) But let me give you the skinny immediately below. To begin with, Tarot cards represent a divinatory tool usually…

Solange Knopf :: Spirit Codex ::

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“There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: ‘There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.’ This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.” ― Bede Griffiths, The Cosmic Revelation: The Hindu Way to God

There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found...

Kazahiku Fukuoji

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“It is only in prayer that we can communicate with one another at the deepest level of our being. Behind all words and gestures, behind all thoughts and feelings, there is an inner center of prayer where we can meet one another in The Presence of God.

It is this inner center which is The Real Source of all life and activity and of all love. If we could learn to live from that center we should be living from The Heart of Life, and our whole being would be moved by love. Here alone could all the conflicts of this life be resolved, and we can experience a love which is beyond time and change.”