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January 2012 course
The following is the syllabus for the course I taught this January at the JST, which is the Berkeley branch of Santa Clara University. DHARMA, YOGA, TANTRA This course will offer a broad historical view of the constant interaction between … Continue reading
The Ethics of Yoga and the Rule of Benedict
The following is a talk I gave in Rome, to a gathering of monastics, on June 10, 2011. Comparing the incomparable The title of this lecture is not properly academic. One might see it on a poster at a street … Continue reading
Posted in dialogue, India, inter-spirituality, monastic life, yoga
Tagged chastity, ethics, love, monastic, non-violence, Patanjali, sutras, yoga
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Talk given at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
The following was my contribution to a Buddhist-Catholic dialogue hosted by the Ch’an Buddhist community at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, near Ukiah, CA. A VOW OF CONVERSATION Thomas Merton always kept diaries. The reason was, I think, that … Continue reading
The Feminine in Hinduism — Syllabus
The following is the Syllabus of the course I am to teach here in Berkeley, at one of the theological schools that collectively form the ecumenical consortium GTU (Graduate Theological Union). The school that hired me is the Jesuit School … Continue reading
Posted in Berkeley, feminine, India, inter-spirituality, yoga
Tagged Anandamayi Ma, Graduate Theological Union, GTU, Hindu, syncretism, Teresa of Calcutta, theology, yoga
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Techno-logic and the Chilean miners
While the thirty-three miners (actually, one of them was Bolivian) were being hoisted up to the surface from the mine chamber, where they had been trapped for 69 days, I had my computer on and connected with the live feed … Continue reading
Posted in inter-spirituality, Uncategorized
Tagged archetype, Chile, eucatastrophy, miners, perinatal symbolism, T.S. Eliot, Tolkien
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Neuroscience, Consciousness, Music
A comment on a blog post by Steve Ramirez, a neuroscientist (http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/i-dont-know-so-maybe-im-not): The main difference between Matt Segall and myself, is that he may, as you say, labor under a misunderstanding of the current accomplishments of neuroscience, while I must … Continue reading
Posted in music, science
Tagged cognition, consciousness, music, neuroscience, Sofia Gubaidulina, Toru Takemitsu
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The Feminine in Hinduism
This coming January, I’ll be giving a course here in Berkeley, with the title, “The Feminine in Hinduism”. Here is a short reading list: Raimundo Panikkar (ed. and transl.). The Vedic Experience, Mantramañjarī: An Anthology of the Vedas… London: Darton, … Continue reading
Posted in Berkeley, feminine, India, inter-spirituality, yoga
Tagged Anandamoyi Ma, dialogue, Divine Mother, Hinduism, Mother Teresa
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Yoga and the Jesus Prayer
A week ago I returned here to Incarnation Monastery in Berkeley, and the next day received the author’s copies of Yoga and the Jesus Prayer (O Books). This is my latest book, but not entirely new. Although totally rewritten, it … Continue reading
Posted in Big Sur, yoga
Tagged Big Sur, hermitage, Jesus, Mass, meditation, Symeon the New Theologian, tantric yoga, Vijñana-Bhairava Tantra
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Yoga and Sacrifice (Big Sur retreat)
The Hermitage known as “New Camaldoli” is on the Big Sur coast just south of Lucia, on the way to Hearst Castle. The Hermitage is very different from the Castle, which is a tourist attraction that exhibits fragments of Medieval … Continue reading
Posted in Big Sur, India, inter-spirituality, yoga
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Teilhard de Chardin (China) & Monchanin (India)
Ursula King is an outstanding theologian and one of the best scholars to study the thought and writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit and paleontologist, who lived for many years in China. Teilhard de Chardin wrote about … Continue reading
Posted in India, inter-spirituality
Tagged China, Christianity, India, Lubac, Monchanin, mysticism, philosophy, religion, Teilhard
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