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RELAX AND LISTEN TO THE MASTER
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Michael Turner
May 14, 2020, 8:50:57 PM5/14/20
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RELAX AND LISTEN TO THE MASTER
“What Paul has done with “Stranger by the River” is take a somewhat poetic mode of expression, like Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet”, and use a dialogue format and short chapters to get people comfortable with some of these concepts. He makes it almost colloquial.
So there’s really a sense of just sitting back and listening to the Master speak by the banks of the river. It’s relaxing, and when you relax you are less guarded and defensive, and you gradually cease to see other people as “other”. They’re not aliens; they’re friends. We are gathered together by this river listening, and here’s the Master telling a story – just like Jesus did once upon a time, and Rumi and Guru Nanak and Kabir sitting at his loom in his home in India in the Fifteenth Century. Kabir worked his loom all his life. He didn’t hit the lecture circuit and do weekend seminars. He just sat at his loom, spun cloth and sold it in the marketplace. People would come by and he would talk to them about God. While he was weaving material cloth, he was also weaving the tapestry of conversation and Spirit, and teaching people the way of God. It was just like sitting in his living room. People would just relax and listen, and as they relaxed, their inner hearing would open up. Their minds would quiet down. It usually happens very gradually and very subtly.”
“RIVER SONG – PART 3: FINAL DISCOURSES ON ‘STRANGER BY THE RIVER’”. (Forthcoming)
Yours in the LightSong of Eternal Love,
Michael Turner
SPIRITUAL FREEDOM SATSANG
Http://spiritualfreedomsatsang.org
https://www.facebook.com/Spiritual-Freedom-Satsang-SFS-298663636832985/
“What Paul has done with “Stranger by the River” is take a somewhat poetic mode of expression, like Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet”, and use a dialogue format and short chapters to get people comfortable with some of these concepts. He makes it almost colloquial.
So there’s really a sense of just sitting back and listening to the Master speak by the banks of the river. It’s relaxing, and when you relax you are less guarded and defensive, and you gradually cease to see other people as “other”. They’re not aliens; they’re friends. We are gathered together by this river listening, and here’s the Master telling a story – just like Jesus did once upon a time, and Rumi and Guru Nanak and Kabir sitting at his loom in his home in India in the Fifteenth Century. Kabir worked his loom all his life. He didn’t hit the lecture circuit and do weekend seminars. He just sat at his loom, spun cloth and sold it in the marketplace. People would come by and he would talk to them about God. While he was weaving material cloth, he was also weaving the tapestry of conversation and Spirit, and teaching people the way of God. It was just like sitting in his living room. People would just relax and listen, and as they relaxed, their inner hearing would open up. Their minds would quiet down. It usually happens very gradually and very subtly.”
“RIVER SONG – PART 3: FINAL DISCOURSES ON ‘STRANGER BY THE RIVER’”. (Forthcoming)
Yours in the LightSong of Eternal Love,
Michael Turner
SPIRITUAL FREEDOM SATSANG
Http://spiritualfreedomsatsang.org
https://www.facebook.com/Spiritual-Freedom-Satsang-SFS-298663636832985/
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