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An Introductory Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault Course Transcript & Companion Guide An Introductory Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault Course Transcript & Companion Guide DAY 2 OF WISDOM SCHOOL Day 2.1 Morning Reading, Chant, Meditation & Body Prayer Day 2.2 Morning Teaching The Great Benedictine Monasticism* Day 2.3 Morning Conscious Practical Work Day 2.4 Afternoon Reading, Chant & Meditation (offered by co-leaders) Day 2.5 Afternoon Teaching The Gospel of Thomas: Logion 2 Day 2.6 Evening Questions & Response, Chant & Closing Meditation* © WisdomWayofKnowing.org An Introductory Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault—Course Transcript & Companion Guide Notes: © WisdomWayofKnowing.org Day 2.1 Morning Reading, Chant, Meditation & Body Prayer [00:19] From The Rule of Saint Benedict, early 6th century: If we wish to reach eternal life, … then—while there is still time, while we are in this body and have time to accomplish all these things by the light of life—we must run and do now what will profit us forever. Therefore we intend to establish a school for the Lord’s service. In drawing up its regulations, we hope to set down nothing harsh, nothing burdensome. The good of all concerned, however, may prompt us to a little strictness in order to amend faults and to safeguard love. Do not be daunted immediately by fear and run away from the road that leads to salvation. It is bound to be narrow at the outset. But as we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on the path of God’s commandments, our hearts overflowing with the inexpressible delight of love. —Prologue 42-49, from The Rule of St. Benedict, pages 18–19 [02:07] [Chant with Darlene Franz on harmonium: Bless the Lord] Bless the Lord oh my soul Bless the Lord oh my soul [06:32] [bell for meditation] [30:48] [bell to end meditation] Body Prayer Introduction by Cynthia [Cynthia] I ask you to please rise. Find your feet on the ground. We’re going to participate now in a very short morning sacred movement that was developed by Lois as a very simple way to do an equivalent of walking meditation when there’s absolutely no space to walk. And you may take it if you ever get in that circumstances with your group. It’s also, in a wonderful way, a simple gesture, body prayer of praise and opening to the new day. We’ll do it three times. [32:20] [Body Prayer, led by Lois Barton, repeated three times] [34:35] [Cynthia] Blessings to you all. Feel the sensation in your feet and in your whole body from that exercise as we go up to breakfast. And see if it’s still there when you come back. © WisdomWayofKnowing.org 1 An Introductory Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault—Course Transcript & Companion Guide Notes: © WisdomWayofKnowing.org Day 2.1 Morning: Reading, Chant, Meditation & Body Prayer 2 Day 2.2 Morning Teaching The Great Benedictine Monasticism An Introductory Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault Course Transcript & Companion Guide Part 1: The Rule of St. Benedict as a Template, page 2 Part 2: Ora et Labora, page 7 Part 3: The Divine Office, page 13 © WisdomWayofKnowing.org 1 An Introductory Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault—Course Transcript & Companion Guide The Rule of St. Benedict as a Template Today what we’re going to do is look at the other side of that stream. I talked (Part 1 of 3) about how our particular Wisdom lineage that I’m working in is made up of two streams, the one coming from the conscious work school, the other coming from the great Benedictine lineage that has really been the backbone of Christian monasticism for at least 1,500 years now. What happened in my own life is that it was given to me by the people I worked with, and the places I happened to be, to see how these things weave together. Yesterday we started with a quick tour through the whole idea of three- centered awareness as a mode of transformation, as a mode of raising your being, of waking up, or staying awake. Today I’m going to come back and look at the Benedictine tradition through that filter. There’s a lot of people that are really interested in the Rule of Saint Benedict and the whole Benedictine lifestyle, and it got really, really hot about, what now, almost 20 years ago, when Kathleen Norris wrote her book, The Cloister Walk, which became a bestseller, and put Benedictine spirituality front and center. People are really interested, and gather around the planet quite regularly in certain groups, to do Benedictine experiences. But the tendency is always to derive it from the outside, and I want to derive it from the inside, from the point of view of conscious awakening. I want to look at the Rule I want to look at the Rule first and first and foremost as a template, a template for inner foremost as a template, a template for transformation, and to see how the various structural inner transformation, and to see how the pieces in it serve that goal of inner awakening, and various structural pieces in it serve that how they actually correspond to the program of three- goal of inner awakening, and how they centered awareness. actually correspond to the program of three-centered awareness. We’re going to be working our way through that today and tomorrow, because we’re going to get through generating the template, looking at what is in each part of it, and then beginning to work those parts—both how it was originally understood in the tradition, and how it can be replicated today. Finally we’re going to look at how we can, if we want, take this template into any condition of life. Any place you are and come from, you can take this back and use it like a dress pattern. Put it on any bolt of cloth that happens to be your work if you get it right. You know the way you make a pattern work is you can put it on any bolt of cloth, make it bigger or smaller as long as you keep what right? The proportions. Got it! That’s how we’re going to approach the Rule of Saint Benedict, as a dress pattern, as a system of proportion that once you see what’s going on and how it’s going on, from the perspective of inner awakening. You can take any kind of life you’re dealing with, including as one of my students did in Minnesota, two parents who concurrently are struggling with Alzheimer’s, and make that your monastery. Okay, so that’s where we’re going. The corollary holds that if you actually go into a Benedictine monastery following the wonderful kind of Benedictine advice, “You keep the rule and the rule will keep you,” it can be a 60-year snooze. Good stuff will happen. As © WisdomWayofKnowing.org Day 2.2 Morning Teaching: The Great Benedictine Monasticism 2 An Introductory Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault—Course Transcript & Companion Guide Gurdjieff says, you will really work hard with Man Number Two and awaken that beautiful emotional-centered intuitiveness, but until you’re in all three centers, you’re still technically asleep from where we’re going with this particular path of inner awakening. So that’s what we’re going to do. This kind of teaching is just beginning to be taught in Benedictine monasteries. I was actually invited to teach it to the good monks of Glastonbury Abbey in Hingham, Massachusetts, when they invited me to lead their retreat a few years back. They sat there and said, “Huh! I never thought of it that way before. I never thought of it that way before.” I think the way of looking at it through the lens of the original purpose of this is really important. The Benedictine tradition is the strongest The Benedictine tradition is the strongest tradition tradition I believe we have in Christianity I believe we have in Christianity on which to create a on which to create a template of template of conscious awakening leading to what we conscious awakening leading to what would call in the West or in the East today, non-dual we would call in the West or in the attainment or enlightenment—full presence. It’s there, East today, non-dual attainment or and if you work with the Rule in a particular way, it enlightenment—full presence. pushes you inescapably toward that. You need that conscious awakening piece explicitly in there and explicitly geared toward knowing how three-centered awareness is being called forth, so you can recognize where imbalances are coming and right yourself back. That’s what we’re going to be about in the next couple of days. I don’t want to get sidetracked into a history lesson on the role of Saint Benedict, but I want to give you just enough background information so you can orient yourself in space-time. Saint Benedict Saint Benedict looks like he comes out of nowhere. And, in a kind of funny way, we know less about him than almost any of the great people that are corner-turners and post-holders in our lineage. The only thing that seems to be known with absolute certainty is that he was born in 480 of the Common Era. We’re not exactly sure when he died. We think he was pretty much off the planet by somewhere around 530 or so. He didn’t live a terribly long life.
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