I wanted to do something on the Beatitudes. And yes I know, people hardly remember what those things were. It's a collection of sayings from Jesus, which are like a door into blissful contemplation, and an activism founded on the relationship with God.
So in my podcast I'm just sharing my story, my love and enthusiasm for a form of silence that I would call prayer, and for a way of life as a writer that I would say is prayer. Because there is nothing but God. And I thought this will make a good podcast - the beatitudes.
What did I discover, only that it's so good that I didn't get beyond the first line of those sayings. I'm going to come back to them, do one at a time now and again over the coming months. But wow gosh, they are worth reading, and thinking about.
And then there was another thing I wanted to share, which I mentioned at the beginning of the podcast but never got around to explaining. it's the phrase Between the Ditches. The phrase sums up for me so succinctly what I am doing in the podcast that I thought I'd just it a little bit over the next few months as a gentle branding. But I just couldn't get time in this weeks episode to talk about it so expect next weeks podcast to be called ....Between the Ditches. And I will attach lots of text on that to explain where I'm coming from.
The end of this weeks episode brought me to a moment of bliss. sometimes I see why I do the podcast. it's why my lama teaches the wisdom of the Buddha. the idea is that by imparting the wisdom to someone else you are actually imparting it to yourself, reminding yourself, and transforming yourself. In christian terms it's linked to the word, Kerygma, the proclamation of the good news. The more we share the good news, the more we hear it.
in fact it goes for everything in life. Share what is beautiful, you end up thinking about what is beautiful, and you become what you contemplate.
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