{"id":19353,"date":"2020-09-25T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19353"},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:08:07","slug":"our-common-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19353","title":{"rendered":"Our Common Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interspiritual Mysticism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our\nCommon Heritage<\/strong><br>\nFriday, \u202fSeptember 25,\n2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pxce-adAEkk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>Today\u2019s\nmeditation continues with reflections from interspiritual mystic Bede Griffiths\nwho I introduced yesterday. I invite you to read his words with an open mind\nand heart. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nis only today that these different religious traditions are beginning to mix\nfreely all over the world and are seeking to relate to one another, not in\nterms of rivalry and conflict, but in terms of dialogue and mutual respect. One\nof the greatest needs of humanity today is to transcend the cultural limitations\nof the great religions and to find a wisdom, a philosophy, which can reconcile\ntheir differences and reveal the unity which underlies all their diversities.\nThis has been called the \u201cperennial philosophy,\u201d the eternal wisdom which has\nbeen revealed in a different way in each religion. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ndifferent world religions\u2014Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and\nIslam\u2014have themselves to recover the ancient wisdom which they have inherited,\nand this has now to be interpreted in the light of the knowledge of the world\nwhich Western science has given us. . . . [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According\nto the Letter to the Colossians, in Christ \u201call things were created, in heaven\nand on earth . . . all were created through him and for him\u201d [1:16]. This is\ntruly a cosmic vision embracing the whole created world, which we now know to\nbe an integrated whole, and this forms a body, a living organism, which is\ncapable of embracing all humanity. We have therefore the conception of a\nuniversal community capable of embodying the universal wisdom and uniting all\nhumanity in one body, one living whole, in which the \u201cfullness,\u201d the whole, of\nthe Godhead dwells. . . . [2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nSecond Vatican Council said that \u201cthe Catholic Church rejects nothing that is\ntrue and holy in [other] religions.\u201d [3] There is truth and holiness in all\ngenuine religion. . . . It has been our experience in the ashram that the more\nwe open ourselves to the other religions, to Hinduism in particular, the deeper\nour Christian faith grows. Our aim is the deepening of our own faith, which\nthen becomes more open to others. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nyou go deeply into any one tradition, you converge on a center, and there you\nsee how we all come forth from a common root. And you find how we meet people\non the deeper level of their faith, in the profound unity behind all our\ndifferences. . . . The grace of Christ is present in some way to every human\nbeing from the beginning to the end. [4]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bede Griffiths draws his theological\ninsights from the teachings of the Catholic Church to which he remained\ncommitted and the Christian Scriptures, which he never stopped reading and\ninterpreting as the word of God, yet now as a part of the perennial tradition.\nHe is an example of how interspirituality can strengthen our Christian faith by\ndeepening our capacity to love and respect the other. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interspiritual Mysticism Our Common Heritage Friday, \u202fSeptember 25, 2020 Today\u2019s meditation continues with reflections from interspiritual mystic Bede Griffiths who I introduced yesterday. I invite you to read his words with an open mind and heart. It is only today that these different religious traditions are beginning to mix freely all over the world and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19354,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353\/revisions\/19354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}