Spiritual Technology

Spiritual technology: 

it feels like alignment, how a deepening practice of A Course in Miracles is bring me back full circle to my original formal practice of sitting meditation. After decades of practicing mantra meditation, and even becoming certified to instruct, I find myself back on my meditation cushion with the prayer of Saint Francis slowly playing through my mind. I first learned Passage Meditation from Eknath Easwaran in the early 1990's when I desperately needed a guiding hand. It was perfect for me at the time, transformative in spiritual, as well as practical way. Through the ensuing years almost everything about my life began to change, and in some ways in a very dramatic fashion - such as alcohol completely leaving my life in a truly miraculous way. This prayer, especially applied through Passage Meditation is spiritual technology and almost feels required for the world we have today. And right now it feels so completely aligned with my commitment to the Course. It's a prayer of non-duality, deeply so, word by word revealing the absence of any line drawn between us and God. Even the opening words are a please to be used completely for God's will alone....

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. 

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Where there is injury, pardon. 

it's the very essence of A Course in Miracles, a foreshadowing of it's arrival 800 years in advance, and, for whatever reason the Holy Spirit has planned - it has called for my return. Perhaps it's time for another transformation, an inner shift to a more complete surrender. Whatever unfolds I will be guided by the words of Saint Francis, and if there is doubt, the prayer will lead me to peace, replacing any darkness with the light of God. The final words of the  reveal the nature of the plan...

it is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

amen.

~

I love you, Eric 

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An Instrument of Thy Peace

An instrument of thy peace: 

it's spiritual technology, transformative, a prayer that shifts the heart towards an ever present light. This is the prayer of Saint Francis, each line offered as a possibility to live a more loved filled life. Early on in my meditation journey I encountered the power of this prayer in the form of Passage Meditation as presented by Eknath Easwaran, a very important teacher to me. Passage meditation is a profound, yet simple, practice of centering the mind upon words that have stood the test of time for their power to invoke a change of heart and mind, it calls for concentration and faith the our minds will absorb these words and then act on them through the challenging times of life. The prayer of Saint Francis is where Easwaran asks us to start -

it begins, 

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

and if we went no further then this, sincere in our request...

perhaps these words alone would be enough.  

but the prayer unfolds beautifully from here, giving us a vision of our truest potential as spiritual beings living happily in the world. The prayer doesn't ask for anything we're not capable of, there's no demands, nothing called for that isn't already present within our hearts. 

we're only asked to be who we truly are.

really, it's only a reminder.

and to use this prayer in meditation is just the practice of remembering, an intent, planting the seeds of our potential blossom to the reality of love.

it begins,

an instrument of thy peace.

and so it shall be.

~

Love, Eric 

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