Ward Parks - Meher Baba's Discourses Session One Part One
"Truth in Values: Excursions into the Practical Teachings of the Avatar of the Age in His Discourses"
Avatar Meher Baba Center Southern California
in Concert with
The Oral History Archive Project
Ward Parks
October 31 November 1
November 7 November 8
"Truth in Values: Excursions into the Practical Teachings of the Avatar of the Age in His Discourses"
Although it deals with many different topics, repeatedly Baba Discourses returns to the theme of truth in values. Indeed, recognition of truth in values provides the foundation for spiritual understanding in any subject area; and acting on basis of these perceived truths defines the life of the karma yogi. Truth in values brings spirituality into the practical domain; it establishes the link between high realities and the empirical sphere that we all live in. In this seminar we will explore this question both in its relation to higher realities and in its application to certain basic questions of life.
Since the Discourses, more than any other book of Meher Baba's, addresses itself
to spirituality as life practice, we will begin, in the first session, with a review of the textual history of this remarkable collection. The second session explores the problem of Maya, which is the source of false valuation; truth in values can be discovered only when falseness is exposed for what it in. The remaining sessions will explore truth in values in four aspects or domains: the ethical; relations between heart and mind; community; and the problem of war and violence.
October 31 2015 Morning Session
"A History of the Discourses." We begin with a review of the textual history of Discourses, which opens with their original publication in the Meher Baba Journal between 1938 and 1942, continues through the "Five Volume Set" (1939-43), God to Man and Man to God (1955), the three volumes Sixth Edition (1967), the Seventh Edition (1986), and culminates with the Revised Sixth Edition (2007). What does the fact that Baba arranged for the editing and reediting of His words so many times suggest about how we should understand them? Should we take the Avatar's words as "sacred scripture," as the Bhagavad Gita, Gospels, and Koran have been regarded as the past? Main topics: (i) A textual history of the Discourses. (ii) Organization and content of the collection. (iii) On the status of Meher Baba’s published words.
Ward Parks - Meher Baba's Discourses Session One Part One
"Truth in Values: Excursions into the Practical Teachings of the Avatar of the Age in His Discourses"
Avatar Meher Baba Center Southern California
in Concert with
The Oral History Archive Project
Ward Parks
October 31 November 1
November 7 November 8
"Truth in Values: Excursions into the Practical Teachings of the Avatar of the Age in His Discourses"
Although it deals with many different topics, repeatedly Baba Discourses returns to the theme of truth in values. Indeed, recognition of truth in values provides the foundation for spiritual understanding in any subject area; and acting on basis of these perceived truths defines the life of the karma yogi. Truth in values brings spirituality into the practical domain; it establishes the link between high realities and the empirical sphere that we all live in. In this seminar we will explore this question both in its relation to higher realities and in its application to certain basic questions of life.
Since the Discourses, more than any other book of Meher Baba's, addresses itself
to spirituality as life practice, we will begin, in the first session, with a review of the textual history of this remarkable collection. The second session explores the problem of Maya, which is the source of false valuation; truth in values can be discovered only when falseness is exposed for what it in. The remaining sessions will explore truth in values in four aspects or domains: the ethical; relations between heart and mind; community; and the problem of war and violence.
October 31 2015 Morning Session
"A History of the Discourses." We begin with a review of the textual history of Discourses, which opens with their original publication in the Meher Baba Journal between 1938 and 1942, continues through the "Five Volume Set" (1939-43), God to Man and Man to God (1955), the three volumes Sixth Edition (1967), the Seventh Edition (1986), and culminates with the Revised Sixth Edition (2007). What does the fact that Baba arranged for the editing and reediting of His words so many times suggest about how we should understand them? Should we take the Avatar's words as "sacred scripture," as the Bhagavad Gita, Gospels, and Koran have been regarded as the past? Main topics: (i) A textual history of the Discourses. (ii) Organization and content of the collection. (iii) On the status of Meher Baba’s published words.