michal's musings

 At the time when the world is challenged by the fights between different religious people it is something very good that a person of other tradition is inspired to create a very interesting and original commentary on believes of another religious tradition.  Here, Bernstein took something that was very important to Christians – the Mass, and created his own artistic interpretation of it.  An artist is much freer to do that than a liturgies or a theologian.  He put life and energy into it.  The role of a celebrant who has a breakdown was the summary humanity. He created that Mass in honor of J.F. Kennedy. For me as a Catholic priest this interpretation of Mass is going to change the way how I will celebrate it. I will bring my brokenness into it. Jesus can be understood the best by his own people.  Mr. Bernstein, thank you for your gift.  This is a good discussion about the Bernstein Mass between Catholics and Jews. The speakers give interesting perspectives about their o

What is the teaching of Jesus? We are not the army? We are not the force? We are not the ruling community? But, we became one in 313. That damaged much of Christianity.   Rorh, a Catholic priest and Franciscan, is challenging the way how the Christianity should be expressed and experienced. We, the Christians, do not control but we forgive and respect people. We are peace people. The Mennonites, Amish and Quakers are the ones who live the peace message of Jesus. They are the conscious of Christianity in the matter of peace and violence.  

This is a challenging teaching of Sadhuru. What I like it doesn’t matter. It is an exaggeration. The other approach is: am I liked by others and the world? I am not sure I should be concern too much about being liked by others. (I am not saying that Sadhuru said that.) If my goal is being liked by others it is still about me. So, what should I do? I think we should just be ourselves and notice the existence and try to live without intentionally harming ourselves and others. The intentionality is the key word. It is the intentionality that has influence on our karma – the transcendental existence. To be able to focus on my karma I need to live without any form of attachment. Liking is that most common attachment. When I focus on my transcendental existence I know I live. Anything other is just other. So, my goal is not to like but to live and know that I exist and the common experience of existence is the only transcendental connection that matters.