Ward Parks - Meher Baba's Discourses Session One Part Two
"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 Afternoon Session
"Maya and the Nature of Reality." As Discourses explain, if one wants to discover truth in values, one needs to discriminate truth from falsehood. This brings us necessarily to the topic of Maya, the principle of Ignorance, which causes one to take the real as false and the false as real. Main topics: (i) Philosophical backgrounds for the idea of Maya. (ii) Maya as falseness: the role of Maya in the interplay of thinking and imagination in Infinite Intelligence. (iii) "God and Maya": a close reading on the fourth discourse on Maya. (iv) False values and false beliefs: a close reading of the first three discourses on Maya.
Ward Parks - Meher Baba's Discourses Session One Part Two
"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 Afternoon Session
"Maya and the Nature of Reality." As Discourses explain, if one wants to discover truth in values, one needs to discriminate truth from falsehood. This brings us necessarily to the topic of Maya, the principle of Ignorance, which causes one to take the real as false and the false as real. Main topics: (i) Philosophical backgrounds for the idea of Maya. (ii) Maya as falseness: the role of Maya in the interplay of thinking and imagination in Infinite Intelligence. (iii) "God and Maya": a close reading on the fourth discourse on Maya. (iv) False values and false beliefs: a close reading of the first three discourses on Maya.