Saying For Today: Being Itself is expressing through our human uniqueness, thisness. Our flesh and mind is the Incarnation of G-D.
Welcome to OneLife Ministries, an online, interspiritual-integral ministry of Arem Nahariim-Samadhi and Love Light Fellowship. This site is here to lead you into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. We recognize that of the Sacred in each one and celebrate the diversity of expressions of our Oneness in Grace. We are for peace and nonviolence, and equal rights and justice for all. I hope persons of varied wisdom paths will find inspiration here. Welcome!
Arem lives and trains in the tradition of Nondual Contemplation.
Vowed Contemplative, Greenbough House of Prayer Interspiritual Teacher, Author, Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor-Healer
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
*St. Teresa of Avila (Christian, b. 1515, Master of the Mystical Life)
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”When I call on the Light within I go Home”
*Guru Ganesha Singh and Snatam Kaur.
And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.
*Kahlil Gibran
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November 8, 1308, Blessed John Duns Scotus (b. 1266) left this plane of existence. Scotus is perhaps the most influential Franciscan theologian, outside of St. Bonaventure. His theology was overshadowed by the scholasticism of Thomas Aquinas. Like Aquinas, Scotus was mystical. Unlike Aquinas, Scotus rendered theology in highly affective, creation-centered terms – following the founder of his order, St. Francis of Assisi.
Scotus evidenced deep reverence for the Mystery of the Incarnation of the Word in Jesus of Nazareth and devotion to his mother, St. Mary. Central to his thought was mystical affections, or mystical Love.
In a vision Christmas night 1299, Scotus was immersed in mystical contemplation of the Incarnation of the Word. Being rapt in ecstasy, St. Mary appeared. She placed in his arms the child Jesus. The child Jesus kissed Scotus and embraced him in Love.
Scotus, unlike many other theologians, did not see the crucifixion as payment for sins or a satisfaction to the Abba-Amma (Father, Mother) due for sins. Scotus held the Incarnation was willed as expression of the Love of the One and from desire of Universal Spirit to manifest a consummation of oneness with all Nature.
Yes, Scotus would say, “The cross was the result of our sin.” Yet, he would say, also – and I use his words: “I am of the opinion that God wished to redeem us in this fashion principally in order to draw us to his love.” We, then, through the Cross, become “co-lovers” of the Blessed Trinity. We, the Mystical Body of the Son, love the Father-Mother in and through the Son, by the empowering wisdom of the Holy Spirit.
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Therefore, the Word is immersed in creation to redeem (or, liberate) creation – to bring it into the fullness of its own destiny to mirror the wholeness of G-D. Each created thing – or each aspect of matter – is in conformity to an ideal pattern by the individuality and uniqueness of its haecceitas: “thisness,” taught Scotus. A rock has a thisness, a cloud has a thisness, a dust particle has a thisness, you and I have a thisness – heavenly beings have a thisness.
Love, then, is the expression of each unique thisness in the whole Thisness, which is the Source of each thisness. Each thing in the order of matter is destined to return to the Thisness that gives it the being that underlies its unique word – or being-expression - in and through the Word.
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We do not escape the thisness of the natural order by being in and of G-D. We remain fully a part of matter, of Nature. We are Nature. We could say that in some way, in being itself among all other things, each aspect of Nature loves the Source of its life and being. Then, in a mystical sense, all creation is becoming the Body of Christ, and creation in fulfillment is to be the New Jerusalem - which is a cosmic summation in Love and mutual interbeing in Being, not a place.
Thus, the materiality of the Incarnation – enfleshing – of the Word is the Divine affirmation of the holiness and goodness of every thisness. This includes our love of Jesus. Scotus wrote: “In paying homage to Christ I would rather go too far than not far enough to give him the praise that is due him.”
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The view of Scotus can be applied to varied faiths. Indeed “Christ” is more than Jesus of Nazareth, as Buddha is more than Siddhartha. The Jesus-Life is one Life with all Teachers, and with you and me as Nature in expressions of thisness. We honor this Cosmic Expression, this Word of Life, by honoring our thisness in the Thisness many call G-D.
Our True Self is not a self apart from human existence. Being Itself is expressing through our human uniqueness, thisness. Our flesh and mind is the Incarnation of G-D. When we see our True Self, we see Thisness, and we can better honor the thisness manifested in and through other persons and life forms, and traditions of faith and spirituality.
MOOJI TIME!
An added section to invite you to some Mooji Time. Mooji has inspired me much, by his Grace, through his online videos and website. Videos and quotes are part of this section. Hope you enjoy! You may also wish to visit his official site at www.mooji.org .
I totally trust this. Wherever its going. … Just trust it's going just however it can go. ...Who knows where it's going to go? I find this quite exciting, actually.
*Mooji
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The Essence of LOVE-Mysticism is to look "within," to find there the Light of G-D That is in Everyone...
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The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You
*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi and Love Light Fellowship (4.17.11). Arem is available to respond to requests pertaining to seeking a Spiritual Director, his speaking, doing classes, workshops, or retreats for groups. For questions pertaining to these ministries, or other matters you wish to write Arem about, see Arem on Facebook at Arem Nahariim-Samadhi. To contact Arem, write briankwilcox@yahoo.com or go to his Facebook page.
