Absolution

Lecture to be delivered to The Truth Lecture Series in March 2020. Please see https://thetruth.cool/ for details.

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1. Absolution Absolution ID 5363673 © Hpphoto | Dreamstime.com Inspired by the Inspired by the Khaboris Manuscript Khaboris Manuscript Third Century Aramaic Third Century Aramaic Andrew S. Bonci Andrew S. Bonci Private Practice Private Practice
2. Philosophers and Plowmen Each must know his part To sow a new mentality Closer to the Heart ~Neil Peart~
3. Absolvere Absolvere (Latin) (Latin) Absolvere: "to set free, acquit; to be complete, bring to an end; make separate" absolve | Origin and meaning of absolve by Online Etymology Dictionary. (n.d.). Retrieved April 24, 2019, from https://www.etymonline.com/word/absolve – From ab- "off, away from" + solvere "to loosen, untie, release, detach" – The idea is that when you are “separated” from your misdeeds, missteps, misanthropic entanglements, then you experience “completeness.”
4. Kol Nidre Kol Nidre (All Vows) (All Vows) Aramaic: י י ר ר דדנ ללכ “Absolution” bears no small resemblance to the Kol Nidre declaration which is an Aramaic prayer annulling vows annulling vows recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement.
5. What Stands in the Way What Stands in the Way of Our Absolution? of Our Absolution? Derailed Mercy Derailed Mercy
6. Forgive (shbook) us our wrongs (khobeyn) as we forgave (shbag) wrongs (khobeyn) . Mt 6:12 – For if you forgive (tishbkoun) as to other men (bneynasha) their wrongs against you (sakhlothoun) , so will your Father who is in Heaven forgive (nishbook) as to you. Mt 6:14 According to the Khaboris Text According to the Khaboris Text Khaboris Manuscript: Enlightenment from the Aramaic. (1993). The Yonan Codex Foundation, Inc.
7. This would be like saying: Love me Lord, but only to the degree that I am disposed to love my fellowman.
8. Mercy is an Exchange Mercy is an Exchange Latin “mercēs” refers to wages, fee, or price. – Related to comMERCE, ComMERCial, MERChant Spanish “merecer” means to deserve or to merit.
9. The Mercy Rule The Mercy Rule You cannot have for yourself what you would otherwise deny to another. The Golden Rule: Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You
10. What to do? What to do? If you want to be loved, then you must love unconditionally. If want to be respected, then you must respect unconditionally. If you want to be forgiven, then you must forgive unconditionally. If you want to be successful, then you have to contribute to the success of others unconditionally.
11. What to do? What to do? If you want to be loved, then you must love unconditionally. If want to be respected, then you must respect unconditionally. If you want to be forgiven, then you must forgive unconditionally. If you want to be successful, then you have to contribute to the success of others unconditionally.
12. The Acid Test: The Acid Test: “Be careful with anybody who cannot celebrate your successes.” Dr. Ragan Fairchild-Bonci
13. From what are we seeking From what are we seeking to be released? to be released?
14. Self-Inflicted Narrative Wounds Self-Inflicted Narrative Wounds which harbor our resentments, pain, and suffering. which harbor our resentments, pain, and suffering.
15. The Wounded Storyteller The Wounded Storyteller In The Wounded Storyteller by sociologist Arthur Frank (2009) we learn the following. Frank, A. W. (2013). The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics, Second Edition (Second edition). University of Chicago Press. – “People need a guidebook for the day when they become wounded storytellers, because most people find themselves unprepared.” – “The voices that speak to us at particular moments in our lives, especially during transitions or crises, imprint themselves with a force that later voices never quite displace.”
16. Where within us are we to find these Where within us are we to find these Self-Inflicted Narrative Wounds? Self-Inflicted Narrative Wounds?
18. Confabulation Confabulation Cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga (2011) explains the role of the languaging left brain in Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain. – The left brain, “Interpreter module,” builds the narratives of our lives. – The interpreter module is driven to seek explanations or causes for events and grasps the first and easiest explanation available. – The left-brain interpreter confabulates.
19. Logical Fiction Logical Fiction In the The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning, psychiatrist and literary scholar Iain McGilchrist (2012) deftly describes the roles of the hemispheres. McGilchrist, I. (2012). The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning. Yale University Press. – The left hemisphere is not in touch with reality but with its representation of reality, which turns out to be a remarkably self-enclosed, self-referring system of tokens. – The right hemisphere's world is about being in relationship with the world at large, not seeing it as a separate object, ripe for manipulation.
20. The Self-Wounding Mind The Self-Wounding Mind The Bengali poet and 1913 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Rabindranath Tagore points out in aphorism 193 of Stray Birds (1916) : “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” We voluntarily do this on a scale that is devastating ...
21. 21 Multiphrenia Multiphrenia In The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life, the psychologist Kenneth Gergen (1991) investigates the fragmenting impact of postmodern culture on a person's coherent sense of identity. Gergen, K. (1991). The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life. New York: Basic Books. – “In an important sense, as social saturation proceeds we become pastiches, imitative assemblages of each other.” (p. 71) – “All the selves lie latent, and under the right conditions may spring to life.” (p. 71)
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23. As I count my pennies Distraught over nothing Anxieties stifle me And I lose sight of my true being The essence of love ~Rabindranath Tagore~
24. How does one transcend the destructive left brain narratives? How do I get the lion to peacefully coexist with the lamb?
25. From Creation To Noah's (rest, repose, comfort) Ark A Metaphor of You
26. In the beginning ... And G_d said, “Let there be ...
27. Oneness/ Oneness/ Wholeness Wholeness In the beginning ... In the beginning ... And G_d said, “Let there be ... And G_d said, “Let there be ...
28. A Multiplicity A Multiplicity of Dualities of Dualities
29. Your job is to get everything onto your ark. You do this by absolving all the pairs and multiplicities of their differences and misanthropic entanglements.
30. The Heart of the The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom Perfection of Wisdom In The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajñaparamita Heart Sutra, Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh (1988) explains the revelation of the Bodhisattva Avalokita. Hanh, Thich Nhat. The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra (Kindle Locations 55-57, 90). Parallax Press. Kindle Edition. – According to the sutra while in deep meditation Avalokita discovers that all things are found to be equally empty. – Following this revelation, he overcame ill-being.
31. Consider an ordinary sheet of paper. It consists of non-paper elements.
32. Absolved of Their Differences Absolved of Their Differences When Avalokita says that a sheet of paper is empty, he means it is empty of a separate, independent existence. Hanh, Thich Nhat. The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra (Kindle Locations 122-124). Parallax Press. Kindle Edition. – It is absolved of any sense of separateness. – It has to inter-be with the sunshine, the cloud, the forest, the logger, the mind, and everything else. It is empty of a separate self. – Being absolved of separateness is to be complete, whole and at-one-ment with everyone and everything.
33. According to the Khaboris Text According to the Khaboris Text Thus, let your love be all-inclusive/all-embracing (gmeerii) , even as that of your Father in Heaven is all all-inclusive/all-embracing (gmeer) . Mat 5:48 • Compare to the KJV – Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
34. The Khaboris Lesson The Khaboris Lesson “[Y]ou shall unconditionally love (tirykham) your neighbor (karebak) as your naphsha (naphshak) .” Mat.22:39 Compare the to the Greek: – You shall love ἀγαπαω your neighbor as yourself σεαυτω . (Mat 22:39 ABP+) – Agape/Unconditional love/love absolved of any differences or conditions
35. But How? But How? How can I be All-Embracing and love unconditionally? – Drop the left-brain narrative of being a separate, superior-to-all self. – Want for others what you want for yourself.
36. Be All-Embracing Be All-Embracing and by embracing all, all will embrace you.
37. Something to Carry Something to Carry Wisdom is knowing we are all one. Love is what it feels like. Compassion is what it acts like. Ethan Walker, III Walker, E. (2003). The Mystic Christ. Norman, OK: Devi Press.
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