Comments on: Monastery Rebuild Complete!

By: acimmonk

acimmonk — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:13:54 +0000

Thank you for the very kind and supportive words; glad everyone is enjoying the changes and additions.

Couple technical updates from Cody (our trusty web developer):

#1 Oratory: If every time you visit you have to click Submit, don’t click “remember password” function as this overrides the cookie. This way you only have to enter log-in info and click submit once, and page will bypass the log-in page each time you click the heart icon.

#2 For the few people who aren’t able to listen to Monastery Music on the main page (get an empty box), only in the Oratory… Cody said, “It’s likely a security setting not allowing the pop-up and/or Flash, or perhaps at one point they tried to access it when it was not working and they have a browser cache bug. That happens in Safari a lot, and also in IE. Usually you have to reinstall the browser.”

By: Donna McG

Donna McG — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:10:04 +0000

I love it all. I love monastaries period. I love the posts, the music, my fellow postulants/novices/monks/masters…whatever we are. My heart opens and calms every time I visit and listen and read.

Many thanks again and again and again.

Here kitty kitty…(sneaking more treats to them)

By: Will Christie

Will Christie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:02:52 +0000

Love the Scriptorium. Great reference site. I made this my home page.

I urge you, Jamie, to refute the temptation to create a Vomitorium in the Monestary, although people may need to release a lot of toxic patterns and thoughts. Perhaps a more pretty analogy might be Dumbledore gently lifting cotton candy strands of his memories out of his mind with his wand and depositing them into a bowl of water.

My monestary (don’t we each sort of create one in our vision?) is a western prototype, based on Franciscan Brothers monestaries, Benedictine monestaries, Spanish missions in California, and a pinch of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts school. I confess I don’t relate well to the Eastern Buddhist (bald guys in red robes) schtick, but I still relate most to a form from that big bad white man’s western civilization. My monks wear hoods on cold days and love scaring children temporarily on Halloween. Certainly, all western monestaries had libraries of ageless wisdom, often hand copied into new editions by faithful monks as their chosen service. That equates to the Scriptorium.

Great achievement, Jamie. Thank you.
Will

By: Anne in TX

Anne in TX — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:19:50 +0000

Twittering Monk – If nothing you see means anything, then it might just be time for a nap! After all that junk food, I’m not surprised!

By: Roland

Roland — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:52:58 +0000

Thank You for The Scriptorium.

By: DonnaD

DonnaD — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:12:04 +0000

Good morning, Jamie. I would just like to say I hope you are feeling better and that you got the rest you needed. I understand that you have been working through a bit of a “dark night” and wanted to let you know that my heart is with you. I, and I know many others, appreciate you very much but I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that you, too, are working your way out of this very long seeming dream. It is wise of you to know when you need special down time. Take care. Hugs and love, DonnaD.

By: Debbi

Debbi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:08:18 +0000

I should add that Jesus is using this Monastery and Monk to do a great deal of his sneaking around… Careful, everyone, he’s very quiet. And I hear He’s carrying around a (monk edit: BIG) bag of Lays…

By: Lisi

Lisi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:07:24 +0000

Wow! This is more than I could ever ask for. Thank you very much to you, to Bonnie, to Jane and to all the people that help you. Now we only have to write acimmonk.com, push a button, and there he is, Jesus with all his teachings and helpers and students. Thank you so much, all this really means a lot to me. I already visited the loggia many times and obtained a lot of help. But now there are a lot of new rooms we have to visit and enjoy.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:47:54 +0000

i loved your comment, debbi! what a perfect description – ‘long play-time in my sandbox of horrors, my favorite things.’ can i ever relate to that! i have my baby-blanket in a death grip and i won’t let go. and i am so grateful that jesus doesn’t try to yank it away. there is something sooooo comforting about knowing i can hang on to it as long as i think i need it, and i can picture jesus (figuratively) smiling and nodding lovingly when he looks on my clutching fists, forever grasping at nothing… thanks for sharing!

By: Debbi

Debbi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:27:49 +0000

I too love this Monastery, its inhabitants, and its leader, Monk. All sorts of “realizations” happen for me when reading, just as I hear happen within ashrams, etc. This morning I “realized” that the reason I love this Course is because: I don’t want to be happy, I love my misery. Jesus doesn’t offer instant joy, peace and happiness. (I threw all those self-help-in-a-day books away when I read my first chapter of my Blue Book. You know which ones they are…)

What He offers is a long play-time in my sandbox of horrors, my favorite things. I can spend as much time as I want looking at my hatred, misery and choice of victimizations. Immediate joy is not required, nor would I want it. If this Course was not difficult, I would have thrown it away with the others. It wouldn’t have held my interest like it does, nor be the compelling lifetime path it has become for me.

I quite suspect this to be His intent, knowing the ego as He does… As He sneaks in the back door of my heart, my sandbox will eventually evolve into the Peace, Light and Joy that I will have become, again.