Torah-Veda

An Interspiritual Journey
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Torah and Veda are two ancient sources of spirituality still vibrant today. Torah is conveyed through the sacred language of Hebrew and Veda is conveyed through the sacred language of Sanskrit. The focus here is on meditation, mysticism, philosophy, psychology and the underlying spirituality that has been incorporated into religions, and not as much on the religions themselves. Your comments and posts are welcome.


Quote of the Week 419 - Listend/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance

Quote of the Week 419 - Listening/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance


Every one who is thirsty, come and drink. He who has no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good. Let your soul delight in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, that your soul will live…


--Isaiah 55:1-3, The Living Torah translation by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

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Interfaith/Inter-Spiritual Contemplative Groups


Please check out the following, which is an ongoing activity that may be of interest:


https://www.zgatl.org/contemplative-group.html


https://www.zgatl.org/ongoing-groups.html


http://www.interfaithci.org/contemplative.html


https://faithallianceofmetroatlanta.org/recent-events/programs-events/ongoing-programs/











Thursday, February 21, 2013

Quote of the Week 256 - Finding One's Own Self


One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self: of all mines of treasure, one’s own self is the last to be dug up.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Quote of the Week 255 - True Universality


True Universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

-- Jakob Burckhardt

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Quote of the Week 254 - The Delight of the Invisible


What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Sunday, February 3, 2013

The Kabbalah of the Unicorn





The Kabbalah of the Unicorn


In lieu of the Quote for the Week this Week, I present the following.

A few months back, I made a two-part presentation at the Vedanta Center of Atlanta on the Book of Job. (The audio recordings of these sessions are available in the “links” section of this blog, in the right column). In preparation for this presentation, I came across something at the end of the Book of Job that had not previously caught my attention, but this time, my spiritual radar perked up on encountering these passages. They recite that in the aftermath of his ordeal, Job was restored in greater abundance than he ever had in the past. Included in this new abundance were seven new sons and three new daughters. A few things that caught my attention about this recitation: here is one of the infrequent occurrences in the Tanak where an unusual prominence is attributed to females in a variety of ways. First, the names of the daughters are provided, but not the names of the sons. Usually, it is the other way around, where men’s names are provided, but not the names of women, wives and daughters. Second, it is emphasized that Job gave his daughters an inheritance, just like their brothers. This appears quite extraordinary, and a more radical extension of the limited inheritance extended to women under certain circumstances related in the Torah concerning the daughters of Zelophedad (I leave it to the reader to research this for themselves, if they are not already familiar with it). Lastly, but not leastly, concerns the significance of the names of these three daughters, particularly the third one, Keren-happuch. My intuition and limited research about this unfolded many interesting connections. I also realized that my limited knowledge of the nuances of Biblical Hebrew would restrict my full exploration of all of the aspects of this subject and its various connections. So I commissioned a study of this subject on a deeper level by Rabbi Gershon Winkler, a scholar and practitioner of traditional Jewish teachings and uncommon kabbalistic and shamanistic roots underpinning the Jewish tradition. Below is a result of his research that I wanted to share due to its profound insights and inspiration. I highly recommend the works of Rabbi Winkler, particularly his book, Magic of the Ordinary. You can check him out further at his website, www.walkingstick.org.