Category Archives: Transformation

Love your enemy – Part Trois

Posted on April 20, 2013 by TheraP

Yes, I know that the Boston Marathon bomber caused terrible death, injury, mayhem, and a huge cost for all that was done to find him…  But I find in myself a concern for his well-being. I hope he recovers and … Continue reading →

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Love your enemy – Part Deux

Posted on July 22, 2012 by TheraP

Is it easier to forgive someone if they’re nuts?  I suspect it is.  I think the (self-identified) Joker, who killed 12 and wounded 58 is nuts.  Insane.  Just like Brevik who killed many in Norway.  Indeed one wonders if the … Continue reading →

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If they don’t come, we also welcome them.

Posted on July 16, 2012 by TheraP

genkakukigen, who describes himself as “an old, fat and lazy Zen Buddhist,” told this brief story about his Zen teacher: I once asked my Zen teacher why he didn’t make greater efforts to attract newcomers to the center he ran … Continue reading →

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Islamic Heart Work

Posted on July 10, 2012 by TheraP

Like a poem.  A gift from the heart of Omid Safi.  Whose written word set fire to my own heart: In a cool mountain night, I put on a few pieces of wood on the fire, and stood there watching … Continue reading →

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Whenever Two or Three…

Posted on April 23, 2012 by TheraP

More and more I am impressed with how Jewish was Jesus, how Jewish was the thinking of the early assembly of disciples:  Wrestling with their memories of the living Jesus and their experiences of the Risen Christ – in the … Continue reading →

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Better than Hating…

Posted on April 10, 2012 by TheraP

… better than hating the unjust is to weep for their insensitivity, because even if they are worthy of hatred, the Word does not want the God-friendly soul to be disquieted by hatred, because knowledge does not work in a … Continue reading →

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Love Your Enemy

Posted on July 26, 2011 by TheraP

Breivik is insane. As soon as I read he’d lifted entire passages from Ted Kazinski, I thought:  No sane person would swallow that! (Also, it was clear from the start that while he had the brilliance to meticulously plan and … Continue reading →

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Heart Work

Posted on July 23, 2011 by TheraP

As the Rabbis put it (Berakot 29b): Prayer which has become so set that it no longer permits of creative newness, has ceased to be devotional. Isaiah 43.19 records these words of Yahweh: I am about to do a new … Continue reading →

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Veneration of the Name

Posted on October 8, 2010 by TheraP

Think of the importance of “naming”.  Of what a name means.  How we rely on that as way of referring to someone or something.  As a means of “calling” or “being called”.  Veneration of “Ha-Shem” (The Name) is already a … Continue reading →

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Why I write: Heart Streams

Posted on October 4, 2010 by TheraP

I have these verses from Psalm 137 ringing in my head: By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. 2 On the willows* there we hung up our harps. 3 For there … Continue reading →

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