Center for Action and Contemplation - Richard
Rohr's Meditation “Liberals Versus Conservatives” – Friday, 29 November 2013
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
Seven Themes of an Alternative Orthodoxy
Seventh Theme: Reality is paradoxical and
complementary. Non-dual thinking is the highest level of consciousness. Divine
union, not private perfection, is the goal of all religion (Goal).
“Liberals Versus Conservatives”
Meditation 21 of 52
At this time in history, the contemporary
choice offered most Americans is between unstable correctness (liberals) and
stable illusion (conservatives)! What a choice! It has little to do with real
transformation in either case. How different from the radical traditionalism of
T.S. Eliot: “You are not here to verify, instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
or carry report. You are here to kneel . . . ” (Little Gidding)
There is a third way, and it probably is
a way of “kneeling.” Most people would just call it “wisdom.” It demands a
transformation of consciousness and a move beyond the dualistic win/lose mind
of both liberals and conservatives. An authentic God encounter is the quickest
and truest path to such wisdom, which is non-dual consciousness.
Neither expelling nor excluding
(conservative temptation), nor perfect explaining (liberal temptation) is our
task. True participation in God liberates us each from our control towers and
for the compelling and overarching vision of the Reign of God—where there are
no liberals or conservatives. Here, the paradoxes—life and death, success and
failure, loyalty to what is and risk for what needs to be—do not fight with one
another, but lie in an endless embrace. We must penetrate behind them both—into
the Mystery that bears them both. This is contemplation in action.(Adapted from
Contemplation in Action, pages 27-30 The Daily Meditations for 2013 are now
available in Fr. Richard’s new book Yes, And . . . .)
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