Class: Blessing Your Brother
Class summary: Answers 5 questions from Oratory subscribers: (1) “Regarding ‘To give and to receive are one in truth’: When I send out blessings to my brothers, do the positive effects boomerang back to me, or do I limit the blessings I receive?” Distinguishes between using magic and using the miracle in regards to this example, and explains what it means to truly bless a brother, and how we receive the blessings we give. (2) “How can someone who has been brutalized, tortured or assaulted not feel anger? It seems like the Course is saying no to angry feelings. Why does the Course tell us not to feel what we are feeling? Isn’t it impossible not to feel these feelings so long as we believe we are a body?” Description of what is happening when we send out the hungry dogs of fear, and what to do with what they drag back. (3) “Does the ego choose us or do we choose the ego?” (4) “How do I start over when I feel resistance?” (5) “I am sometimes overly empathetic: Can you please give me a model of what it would look like to respond to someone with true compassion when they are experiencing the hardships of the world?”
Time of class: 2:00:13
Bonnie performs Sonata No. 1, mvmt. 1 (Handel).
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October 26th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Pour me another drink, fellas… Monk’s talkin about the hungry dogs of fear again….
October 27th, 2009 at 6:57 am
Hi Anil: Nice to hear from you. Yes, the classes are held live on the mountain. (I live here now.) This past week I did the class alone, which was enjoyable and kind of interesting. (Bonnie said she enjoyed editing a class that she was hearing for the first time.) I’ve thought of recording ideas almost daily (i.e. whenever they occur) throughout the week, so that I’m talking about them when they are fresh on my mind and in my experience. Class would then be a collection of these recordings. I think I’ll try it one of these weeks, and see how it goes and what people think.
I know people like the questions that arise in class, so that is one downside. So I might try a half-and-half class.
October 28th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Dear Laura: Thank you for the whisper above, and the candle in The Vigil. In class it felt like we were sitting together and having a conversation, one with a lot of closeness and friendship. Thank you for hearing my words with an open heart. Love, Jamie