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Contemplation AND Action: an informal session with interns (DVD - USA/CAN/MEX)
Contemplation AND Action: an informal session with interns (DVD - USA/CAN/MEX)
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Fr. Richard met with participants of a recent Center for Action and Contemplation 9-day internship program to respond to their questions and to give a succinct teaching on the meaning and importance of contemplation in our everyday lives. This session was sent worldwide on a special simultaneous webcast.

Some of the topics brought up in the question period include such themes as listed:

• Why is it so difficult to be fully present?

• How can one be present to another person while, at the same time, maintaining the “inner witness” or “observer”?

• What is salvation?

• Why is the word “and” so important in the name of your organization, the Center for Action and Contemplation?

• How do we attract young people to contemplative prayer?

• How do we overcome the internal blockages to awareness that keep us from seeing?

• Does “beginners mind” have anything to do with this?

• How do we deal with expectations?

• What about Absolute Truth?

• What is “liminal space”?

• What is evil?

The final section has Richard sharing his vision of contemplation. He states that this is the heart of the matter, because it’s the changing of consciousness, and changing how we enter into communion with God, ourselves, and with the present moment.

Without the contemplative mind all we say about social change and social justice will not happen. If we can’t deal with the inevitable hurts, we will opt out. Contemplation helps us “opt in”. It is “thinking without thinking”.

Join Richard and the interns for a deep session that will invigorate your practice and your daily awareness.

Includes an insert with a poem by Fr. Richard, and a list of internal blockages to awareness.

NOTE:This DVD video is made in the NTSC format, which is compatible with the viewing equipment used in the USA, Canada, Mexico, and Japan.
  
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Code: AC-D-08
Price: $15.00 		Date: 2009
Media: 1 DVD NTSC format
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