Richard Rohr Daily Meditation "Sabbath -- Transformative Dying; Meditating as Practice in Dying" for Saturday, 19 April 2014

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States - Center for Action and Contemplation - Father Richard Rohr Daily Meditation "Sabbath -- Transformative Dying; Meditating as Practice in Dying" for Saturday, 19 April 2014
Sabbath Meditation -- Remember: Transformative Dying; Rest: Meditating as Practice in Dying 
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
"Transformative Dying"
"Sabbath Meditation"
Saturday, 19 April 2014
"Remember: Transformative Dying"
The truth is that it’s you who has to die, or rather, who you think you are, the False Self. (Sunday)
Finally, thankfully, you collapse into the larger self, who you are in God, the True Self, which is inherently beloved. (Monday)
How much False Self are you willing to shed to find your True Self? (Tuesday)
You really don’t know what life is until you know what death is. (Wednesday)
“Surrendering the exclusivity of self-reference—in love, for love, arms wide open on the cross—[Jesus] emerged into Christ consciousness, transcending the smallness of self, obliterating the separation self imposes.” — Kathleen Dowling Singh (Thursday)
Jesus crucified and resurrected is the whole pattern revealed, named, effected, and promised for our own lives. (Friday)
Rest: Meditating as Practice in Dying 
As St. Augustine taught, we must “die daily” to our small and separate sense of self. Kathleen Dowling Singh offers an invitation to practice dying through meditation. In her words, “We can sit to meditate with the intention to let it all go, inspired to explore what lies beyond self.”
“We sit deliberately, with noble posture and noble attention.
“We breathe. Progressively, we free our awareness from sensations. We free our awareness from the ‘I’ we imputed upon the sensations and the ‘mine’ with which we tried to claim them. We relieve ourselves of all of our mistaken identifications, loosening our attachments to them, letting them go.
“We liberate ourselves from illusions and, cleared of all that congested weight, the burden of being a self, we surrender, entering awareness that is spacious and quiet and uncongested.
“We just die into silence. Die to the past. Die to the future. Die to the breath. Completely let go. The silence reveals itself as refuge, as awareness that can be trusted, tenderly loving and resounding with the majesty and the mystery of the sacred.”
Adapted from “Living in the Light of Death” by Kathleen Dowling Singh, Oneing, “Ripening,” Volume 1 Number 2, pages 42-44
Gateway to Silence: I lose my life to find Life.
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