Julian of Norwich and Other Tibetan Lamas

Reflections on the writings of Julian of Norwich with Thomas Merton and Tibetan Buddhist Teachers

May 8, 2022 – Beginnings
Chapter 1: Reflection 1 – A Treasure of Wisdom and Blessings
Chapter 1: Reflection 2 – One of My Best Friends
Chapter 1: Reflection 3 – The Great Compassion, Mahakaruna
Chapter 1: Reflection 4 – A Passion for the Passion
Chapter 1: Reflection 5 – Nether by Veyn Glorie, But in Mekenesse
Chapter 1: Reflection 6 – Omnium Sanctorum & The Birth of the Blues
Chapter 1: Reflection 7 – She Told Him to Go … So Off He Went
Chapter 1: Reflection 8 – A Satisfying Word
Chapter 1: Reflection 9 – A Broken and Happy Heart
Chapter 1: Reflection 10 – The Stars in the Bright Sky
Chapter 1: Reflection 11 – A Guide in the Desert
Chapter 1: Reflection 12 – The Emptying Crown
Chapter 1: Reflection 13 – A Perfect Synthesis
Chapter 1: Reflection 14 – Feeling of Wele and Woe
Chapter 1: Reflection 15 – There is Something About Lepers
Chapter 1: Reflection 16 – The School of Charity
Chapter 1: Reflection 17 – To Give Everything, Everything
Chapter 1: Reflection 18 – Chewing with the Mind and the Heart
Chapter 1: Reflection 19 – A Fecundity Which Must Pour Itself Out
Chapter 1: Reflection 20 – To See and Not to See
Chapter 2: Refection 1 – An Evanescent Anonymity
Chapter 2: Reflection 2 – He was Washing Dishes in the Sink
Chapter 2: Reflection 3 – Be Like a Swan
Chapter 2: Reflection 4 – Two Figures Made Almost as One
Chapter 2: Reflection 5 – That I Might Have Seen
Chapter 2: Reflection 6 – Student and Teacher – Very Close, Warm Relation
Chapter 2: Reflection 7 – See, Gaze Upon, Behold
Chapter 2: Reflection 8 – A Vision Enlightened by Charity
Chapter 2: Reflection 9 – To Help All Other Sentient Beings
Chapter 2: Reflection 10 – Opening Wide the Inner Eye of the Soul
Chapter 2: Reflection 11 – Watched Over Me with the Eyes of Love
Chapter 2: Reflection 12 – Love at a Refined Pitch
Chapter 2: Reflection 13 – Tibetan Christmas Cards
Chapter 2: Reflection 14 – The Kind Gift of Sickness
Chapter 2: Reflection 15 – To Die Without Dying
Chapter 2: Reflection 16 – Steeled by Closeness to Death
Chapter 2: Reflection 18 – Compassionate Solidarity
Chapter 2: Reflection 19 – The Little Way of Heroic Martyrdom
Chapter 2: Reflection 20 – Wounds of Love
Chapter 2: Reflection 21 – Stirring, Soothing, and Piercing the Heart
Chapter 2: Reflection 22 – I Press My Palms Together
Chapter 2: Reflection 23 – Wound Me with the Wound of Compassion
Chapter 2: Reflection 24 – Generating Compassion Until Tears Flow
Chapter 2: Reflection 25 – Transformed into Nothing but Pure Joy
Chapter 2: Reflection 26 – Allowing Others to be of Supreme Importance
Chapter 2: Reflection 27 – Battling Heart-wounds
Chapter 2: Reflection 28 – As Though Finding a Treasure of Precious Jewels
Chapter 2: Reflection 29 – Responding with a Tranquil and Gentle Heart
Chapter 2: Reflection 30 – Answering Injury with Benevolence
Chapter 2: Reflection 31 – Taking Upon Myself All the Pains of My Mothers
Chapter 2: Reflection 32 – Charity Seeketh Not Her Own
Chapter 3: Reflection 1 – The Possibility of Death Was Not Absent
Chapter 3: Reflection 2 – For We Lyue Bot in a Poynt
Chapter 3: Reflection 3 – Life As a Succession of Points
Chapter 3: Reflection 4 – More Knowing and Loving of God in the Blisse of Heaven
Chapter 3: Reflection 5 – To Think on God While My Life Would Last
Chapter 3: Reflection 6 – To Have the More Freedom of My Heart
Chapter 3: Reflection 7 – “Opening the Inner Doors”
Chapter 3: Reflection 8 – “What Did It Mean to Say ‘I Saw?’”
Chapter 3: Reflection 9 – Seeing the Teacher
Chapter 3: Reflection 10 – Visions for the Path
Chapter 3: Reflection 11 – Tunnel Vision and the Penetrating Gaze
Chapter 3: Reflection 12 – Seeing from the In-Between
Chapter 3: Reflection 13 – Like Awaiting the Arrival of a Dearly Loved Friend
Chapter 3: Reflection 14 – An Image of Comfort
Chapter 3: Reflection 15 – They That Were with Me Sent for the Parson
Chapter 3: Reflection 16 – The Sweet Poison of Compassion
Chapter 3: Reflection 17 – Returning to Sources
Chapter 3: Reflection 18 – Compassion Means to ‘To Share Others’ Sufferings
Chapter 3: Reflection 19 – A Kind Compassion
Chapter 3: Reflection 20 – That Blood You Received from Me in Your Incarnation
Chapter 4: Reflection 1 – A Garland of Tears
Chapter 4: Reflection 2 – To You We Cry
Chapter 4: Reflection 3 – For Now We See Through a Glass
Chapter 4: Reflection 4 – A Vocation to Hide in the Torrent
Chapter 4: Reflection 5 – The Moon Pouring Its Peacefulness
Chapter 4: Reflection 6 – The Trinity Fulfilled My Hert Most with Joy
Chapter 4: Reflection 7 – The Bliss of Sacrificial Love
Chapter 4: Reflection 8 – Wher Jhesu Appireth the Blessed Trinity is Understand
Chapter 4: Reflection 9 – As a Window