Detaching from duality . . .

Sunday, February 23, 2025. It's Sol's day . . . and Spring is on the horizon here in TulseyTown. Today's forecasts indicate the next ten days as mostly clear, sunny conditions with Southerlies and temperatures in the 60's and 70's with overnights remaining above freezing. It's almost – not quite – time to move the plants from their indoor Winter shelter.

Letting go, detachment, is not about loss. It's about freedom. And freedom? Freedom is not about getting, hoarding, or destruction. Freedom is the quiet silence of peace. – jb

While there are many reasons to be anxious today, I still have hope, not only in God, but in the fact that many Westerners, including Christians, are rediscovering the value of nonduality...a way of thinking, acting, reconciling, boundary-crossing, and bridge-building based on inner experience...It moves us beyond binary, either-or, us-against-them mentality. To be clear, nondual thinking isn’t about throwing out our rational mind or refusing to act against injustice; it’s about growing in mystical, contemplative, and unitive consciousness. – Fr. Richard Rohr, “The Mystics of the Rhine Valley,” Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation. 2.23.25

The wisdom we need for this time of great unraveling will be gained as we remember that we are not separate from nature... The wisdom will be found … outside the edges of the dominant culture...by listening to the voices of the whole, alive, interconnected world. – Victoria Loorz and Valerie Luna Serrels, Field Guide to Church of the Wild. Broadleaf. 2025.

An excellent example of “a voice outside the edges of the dominate culture” may be found by Cynthia Bourgeault in her brief excerpt from “The Way of the Wisdom Jesus.”

How blessed is the man who like Hafez

has tasted in his heart the wine made before Adam.

– Hafez