Jesus tells us once again who he is: those who have ears, let them hear, me thinks. Again the rigid tie to the reality the Jews have known for hundreds of years. Would i believe? Would i doubt? Would i choose to want to harm the man who claimed himself to be the son of God, one with God, perhaps even God Himself?
Today a Dominican homily tells us: To Jewish ears, this phrase – ‘I am’ - is straightforwardly a divine title: it is the ineffable and mysterious divine name, יהוה, the term used by God to refer to Himself, revealed by God to Moses in the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), and considered by the Jewish people too holy to be spoken aloud. (godzdogz)
Too holy for human lips made of the stuff of this material existence, how can i even understand His name let alone attempt to speak it? This reminds me of Hindu ideas of ultimate reality, that God and i and you and all existence are One, ideas shared by such holy men as Sri Nisargadatta Mahara (I Am That, his collected works). 'I am' contains the universe, it is a declaration of being, of consciousness.
I am.
When we learn a new language, how often do we sit with the conjugation of the verb To Be? Remarkable too, is that only the present tense is used. Now. Always present. Existence is important, even to a zen Buddhist who lives with his understanding of Emptiness ... an emptiness that contains the whole universe and is graphical described by the single dramatic painted circle O of Enso.
Whether to be or not to be, ponders Hamlet.
I am.
Through the affirmations that God is and Jesus is, i can know too, that i am. And knowing that the Christ did not die on the cross, but rose and is eternally present in the Holy Spirit, allows me to know that i too, am a part of this universal One, sharing in the Trinity, sharing in existence.
Deo gratias.
Today a Dominican homily tells us: To Jewish ears, this phrase – ‘I am’ - is straightforwardly a divine title: it is the ineffable and mysterious divine name, יהוה, the term used by God to refer to Himself, revealed by God to Moses in the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), and considered by the Jewish people too holy to be spoken aloud. (godzdogz)
Too holy for human lips made of the stuff of this material existence, how can i even understand His name let alone attempt to speak it? This reminds me of Hindu ideas of ultimate reality, that God and i and you and all existence are One, ideas shared by such holy men as Sri Nisargadatta Mahara (I Am That, his collected works). 'I am' contains the universe, it is a declaration of being, of consciousness.
I am.
When we learn a new language, how often do we sit with the conjugation of the verb To Be? Remarkable too, is that only the present tense is used. Now. Always present. Existence is important, even to a zen Buddhist who lives with his understanding of Emptiness ... an emptiness that contains the whole universe and is graphical described by the single dramatic painted circle O of Enso.
Whether to be or not to be, ponders Hamlet.
I am.
Through the affirmations that God is and Jesus is, i can know too, that i am. And knowing that the Christ did not die on the cross, but rose and is eternally present in the Holy Spirit, allows me to know that i too, am a part of this universal One, sharing in the Trinity, sharing in existence.
Deo gratias.
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