Sabbath Meditation — Remember: The Enneagram (Part 2); Rest: Child’s Pose
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
"The Enneagram (Part 2)"
"Sabbath Meditation"
Saturday, June 2014
"Remember: The Enneagram (Part 2)"
The gift of redeemed Fours is equanimity or emotional balance.
(Sunday)
Redeemed Fives link their knowledge to a search for wisdom and strive for a sympathetic knowledge of the heart. (Monday)
Redeemed Sixes know how to combine holding on to sound traditions with the readiness to take new paths. (Tuesday)
The gift of the redeemed Seven is sober and deeply grounded joy in the face of and despite all the difficulties of life.
(Wednesday)
More than any other type, well-developed Eights have the gift of leading other people to their real potential. (Thursday)
The gift of the Nine is decisive action. They know they must take their small and honest place in a very big plan. (Friday)
Rest: Child's Pose
All conversion is turning around and knowing something that we deeply know (our True Self, or as the Enneagram calls it, our Soul Child) and yet deeply resist knowing. The mystery of God’s revelation is hidden inside, and in each of us in a different, unique way (at least nine general God images). Jesus became the Human One who believed the divine image in himself, who trusted it, followed it, and told us to do the same. “We do not recognize ourselves, just as we did not recognize him” (1 John 3:1). The Enneagram is given so that we might see, and, as T. S. Eliot said, “know the place for the first time,” which is our truest and deepest Self, the Self that always was but seldom is. 1
In yoga, child’s pose is often used as a restful pause between more challenging poses. Perhaps something in the past two weeks of Enneagram study has challenged you—witnessing the difficult and humbling reality of your “sin” and neediness. I encourage you to go deeper in learning your Enneagram number. But for now, take a pause and remember your Soul Child’s innocence, security, joy, and vulnerability.
You might choose to literally kneel and bend into child’s pose (for heart and head people, a body prayer can be especially helpful in reconnecting with physical self). Or you might repeat a mantra that echoes your Soul Child’s innate wisdom (words and ideas can ground feelings—both emotions and physical sensations—in truth). You could sit quietly in heart-to-heart communion with God and allow the feeling of original rootedness to flow from your heart to your head and through your whole body.
Rest in the gut-stirring, heart-throbbing, mind-bending reality of your True Self.
1. Adapted from The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective, p. 48
Gateway to Silence: I want to see all—my sin and my gift.
For further study:
The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective
The Enneagram and Grace: 9 Journeys to Divine Presence (CD, MP3 download)
The Enneagram as a Tool for Your Spiritual Journey (CD, DVD, MP3 download)
The Enneagram: The Discernment of Spirits (CD, DVD, MP3 download)
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