Father Thomas Keating - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Discussion of this interview in the Batgap Community Facebook Group: / 2431980097027776
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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Defining God
00:04:23 - The Incredible Creativity of God in Science
00:08:03 - God's Manifestation in Humanity
00:11:46 - The Illusions of Control, Pleasure, and Security
00:15:20 - The Mystery of God's Interrelatedness with Humanity
00:19:15 - Loss of Wholeness and Manifestation
00:22:06 - God's Playful Attitude
00:25:29 - The Playful Side of God
00:28:58 - The Emergence of a New Level of Consciousness
00:33:00 - The Self Manifestation of God
00:37:30 - The Cosmic Database
00:40:35 - Discussing Basic Life Issues
00:44:22 - The False Self and Afflictive Emotions
00:47:35 - The Unity of the Human Family
00:51:41 - The Potential for Unity with God and a Top-Down Solution
00:55:07 - Becoming More Human through Centering Prayer
00:58:05 - The Sacred Word in Centering Prayer
01:00:25 - Letting Go of Thoughts
01:03:32 - The Importance of Meditation Practice
01:06:22 - Settling into a Deeply Restful State
01:09:38 - The Power of Prayer's Healing Effects
01:13:09 - The Process of Centering Prayer and Contemplation
01:16:29 - The Divine Games and Transformations
01:19:50 - The Roadmap of Spiritual Progress
01:23:28 - The Spiritual Journey and Union with God
01:27:51 - The Incarnation of God in All of Us
01:31:55 - Dimensions Beyond the Ego
01:35:18 - Discovering our Oneness with God
01:39:02 - The False Self and Hell
01:42:40 - The Role of Freedom and Gratitude
01:46:18 - God's Transformative Power
Fr. Thomas Keating is a founding member and the spiritual guide of Contemplative Outreach, LTD. He has served on Contemplative Outreach's Board of Trustees since the organization's beginning and is currently serving as the Chairman of the Board. Fr. Keating is one of the principal architects and teachers of the Christian contemplative prayer movement and, in many ways, Contemplative Outreach is a manifestation of his longtime desire to contribute to the recovery of the contemplative dimension of Christianity.
Fr. Keating's interest in contemplative prayer began during his freshman year at Yale University in 1940 when he became aware of the Church's history and of the writings of Christian mystics. Prompted by these studies and time spent in prayer and meditation, he experienced a profound realization that, on a spiritual level, the Scriptures call people to a personal relationship with God. Fr. Keating took this call to heart. He transferred to Fordham University in New York and, while waiting to be drafted for service in World War II, he received a deferment to enter seminary. Shortly after graduating from an accelerated program at Fordham, Fr. Keating entered an austere monastic community of the Trappist Order in Valley Falls, Rhode Island in January of 1944, at the age of 20. He was ordained a priest in June of 1949.
Fr. Thomas KeatingIn March of 1950 the monastery in Valley Falls burned down and, as a result, the community moved to Spencer, Massachusetts. Shortly after the move, Fr. Keating became ill with a lung condition and was put into isolation in the city hospital of Worcester, Massachusetts for nine weeks. After returning to the monastery, he stayed in the infirmary for two years. Fr. Keating was sent to Snowmass, Colorado in April of 1958 to help start a new monastic community called St. Benedict's. He remained in Snowmass until 1961, when he was elected abbot of St. Joseph's in Spencer, prompting his move back to Massachusetts. He served as abbot of St. Joseph's for twenty years until he retired in 1981 and returned to Snowmass, where he still resides today.
Fr. Keating is an internationally renowned theologian and an accomplished author. He has traveled the world to speak with laypeople and communities about contemplative Christian practices and the psychology of the spiritual journey, which is the subject of his Spiritual Journey video and DVD series. Since the reforms of Vatican II, Fr. Keating has been a core participant in and supporter of interreligious dialogue. He helped found the Snowmass Interreligious Conference, which had its first meeting in the fall of 1983 and continues to meet each spring. Fr. Keating also is a past president of the Temple of Understanding and of the Monastic Interreligious Dialogue.