In Christianity, they differentiate between passive and active prayer.
Active prayer – or meditation, or inquiry – is where “I” engage in a practice. And this is made possible by life and Spirit. Grace is what makes it all possible.
Passive prayer – or meditation, or inquiry – is where it seems to happen on it’s own. The grace, in a conventional sense, is more obvious. And what I can do is make myself available and receptive to it. I can align myself with it.
These can also be seen as two aspects of the situation, and one may be more obvious for a while, and then the other.
The active aspect is what “I” do, what the human self, the me, the doer, the observer is doing.
The passive aspect is grace. It’s life making it possible. It’s life or soul or Spirit working on the human self.
And it’s really all life.
It’s life engaging in prayer while (at least for a while) taking itself as a human being, a doer, and an observer, and it’s life making this possible through grace.
It’s life appearing as conventional grace, and as an I and me aligning itself with this grace (or not), and that aligning is grace too.
Really, it’s all grace. It’s all the play of life and Spirit. Whether it looks like grace, in a conventional sense, or not, it’s all grace. It’s all made possible by life and Spirit, and it is all life and Spirit. It’s life and Spirit in its play as what’s here.
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– active aspect – what I do, the human self, the me, the doer, the observer
– passive aspect – soul, spirit working on me, making it possible, grace
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Initial version…..
Some within Christianity differentiate between active and passive prayer, and that distinction fits my experience as well.
Active prayer – or meditation, or inquiry – is where “I” engage in a practice. And this is made possible by life and Spirit. Grace is what makes it all possible.
Passive prayer – or meditation, or inquiry – is where it seems to happen on it’s own. The grace, in a conventional sense, is more obvious. And what I can do is make myself available and receptive to it. I can align myself with it.
And it’s really all life.
It’s life engaging in prayer while (at least for a while) taking itself as a human being, a doer, and an observer, and it’s life making this possible through grace.
It’s life appearing as conventional grace, and as an I and me aligning itself with this grace (or not), and that aligning is grace too.
Really, it’s all grace. It’s all the play of life and Spirit. Whether it looks like grace, in a conventional sense, or not, it’s all grace. It’s all made possible by life and Spirit, and it is all life and Spirit. It’s life and Spirit in its play as what’s here.
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Some Christians differentiate between active and passive prayer, and it fits my experience as well.
Active prayer – or meditation, or inquiry – is where “I” engage in a practice, with the support of Spirit and life. Life and grace is what makes it all possible.
Passive prayer – or meditation, or inquiry – is where it seems to happen on it’s own. The grace, in a conventional sense, is more obvious. And what I can do is make myself available and receptive to it. I can align myself with it.
And it’s really all life. It’s life engaging in prayer while (at least for a while) taking itself as a human being, a doer, and an observer. It’s life appearing as conventional grace, and as an I and me aligning itself with this grace (or not). It’s all grace.
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Some Christians differentiate between active and passive prayer, and it fits my experience as well.
Active prayer – or meditation, or inquiry – is where “I” engage in a practice, with the grace of Spirit and life. Life is what makes it all possible, and it’s really life that engages in prayer while (at least for a while) taking itself as a human being, a doer, and an observer. It’s all grace.
Passive prayer – or meditation, or inquiry – is where it seems to happen on it’s own. The grace, in a conventional sense, is more obvious. And what I can do is make myself available and receptive to it. I can align myself with it.