Trusting Experience

In Tew's Day's mailbox this rainy 7th day in 2023 February . . .

I hope my words [and mine as well, Fr.Richard]—written or spoken—simply invite readers on their own inner journey rather than a replacement for it. . .Information from outer authority is not necessarily transformation, and we need genuinely transformed people today, not just people with answers. . .For two thousand years and increasingly for the last hundred years or so have seen the arrival of all kinds of tools by which to critique our own experience in the service of that transformation. These experiences continue to provide us with the possibility for a more contemplative, non-obsessive mind. – Fr. Richard Rohr (adapted)

Transformation, of course, means change. And we humans are not fond of change. “The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences.” – D. H. Lawrence

Meditation is one of the main tools we have to develop and practice mindfulness. Meditation practice is not an exotic or out-of-reach approach. Rather it is personal, and it involves an an immediate intimate relationship with the Self. – Chögyam Trungpa (1940–1987)