joeblast Posted September 21, 2014 (edited) Then we gain a glimpse of the Archbishop's methods of prayer... So it seems that interspersed between the pounding of his feet and his heart, and his heavy breathing and the dodging of pedestrians, the snatches of mental monologue he hears in his head is his idea of prayer? Can anything more vulgar be imagined? Anyone who has made even a semi-serious attempt at prayer/meditation soon understands that it requires the very highest levels of concentration. Silence and solitude are incredibly useful aids to this. But the Archbishop thinks it can be something to be squeezed in to his daily jog! And at the same time he all but confesses that his God is some kind of helperouter, someone to call up whilst out jogging for a bit of advice! Only the spiritually immature would call upon God in this way. To understand God is to to understand that there is a part of us that is perfect and whole and loved regardless of our daily problems. It is by focussing on our spiritual selfhood that our daily problems attain manageable proportions. But the spiritually immature are still very much wrapped up in all the hubbub of the world. Quite frankly, they want real world solutions to the problems without for a moment imagining that the problem is themselves and their overestimation of the inessential. He admits that all this 'is not probably what the Archbishop of Canterbury should say.' No doubt he means that it is politically reckless to admit doubt. and then echoed in the back of my head, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_1DhUABr2U the monk bought lunch Edited September 21, 2014 by joeblast Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
