By Dr. Marc Gafni In this excerpt from Reclaiming Rosh Hashanah: The Dance of Tears (forthcoming), Dr. Marc Gafni explores the Garden of Eden biblical story and Abraham Kook’s teaching on the “inner essential I,” through which we come to u ...
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The Narrative of Conscious Business
Marc Gafni recently participated as a guest scholar at the Conscious Business Conclave at Esalen. Here is an excerpt from Marc’s reflections on the urgent priority of articulating a narrative of Conscious Business. In Marc’s words, there ...
Prayer: a pointing-out instruction for God
By Marc Gafni We are all despearate for communion. It is what makes our lives worth living. Communion is the movement from loneliness to loving. It is the experience of being held and received. We are all systematically mis-recognized. To be recogniz ...
The Seven Levels of Certainty and Uncertainty
By Marc Gafni The following are notes from Marc Gafni’s dharma talk given in March 2012 at Shalom Mountain Wisdom School, where Gafni serves as the World Spirituality Teacher in Residence. Introduction The seven levels of certainty and uncertai ...
Daily Wisdom Post: The Lover’s Art of Attention
So far, the two major qualities of the erotic lover have been perception and giving. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Love is as Love Does
Loving and giving are inextricably bound up. The great medieval philosopher Maimonides teaches that to love God is to know the divine in both world and self. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Transcendence & the Gradual Widening of Self
It is through the consistent commitment to the growth of the other expressed through regular and spontaneous acts of giving that you become a lover. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: You-nified
As we have said, the model for being an erotic lover – in all facets of our existence – is the sexual. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: In Ecstacy
The perception of falling in love is but one expression, however of a broader kind, of perception. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Arousal from Above
Love is almost always proceeded by an act of will. We do not fall in love unless we decide to fall in love. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: The Stones Will Sparkle
Now let me share with you something truly beautiful. It is a sort of Hebrew mystic expansion of Traherne’s moment of rapture. It is one of my favorite stories. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Perception is Love
The Kabbalists were often referred to as Mistaklim or Chozim, roughly translated as the Lookers or Seers. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: I Can’t Do It Without You
The Kabbalists takes the mandate of love implicit in self perception – one step further. I need to understand that not only am I a part of God but I am also a partner to God. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Identity
The unfolding of the universe entails full divine loving presence. The divine perspective changes to include human beings. It is an intimate relation of shared identity. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Void and Eros
The mystics teach us that to access the erotics of being – the fullness of ourselves in every moment - we need to first linger in the emptiness for a time. ...