Title: “Living 200%: 100% Absolute and 100% Relative”
Description: In the words of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, “A full life requires living ‘two hundred percent’: 100% relative life (the active, changing, physical world) and 100% absolute life (the silent, unchanging, unbounded field of pure consciousness).”.
They appear to be very different but are they? And is our practice to live in the conversation between the two?
Reading: Connie Poole will read a poem by David Whyte, The Bell and the Blackbird, a passage from David Whyte’s The Three Marriages, pp. 176 & 177, and The Tao Te Ching.
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The bell and the blackbird
by David Whyte
The sound of a bell
Still reverberating,
or a blackbird calling
from a corner of the field,
asking you to wake
into this life,
or inviting you deeper
into the one that waits.
Either way
takes courage,
either way wants you
to be nothing
but that self that
is no self at all,
wants you to walk
to the place
where you find
you already know
how to give
every last thing
away.
The approach
that is also
the meeting
itself,
without any
meeting
at all.
That radiance
you have always
carried with you
as you walk
both alone
and completely
accompanied
in friendship
by every corner
of the world
crying
Allelujah.