Month: June 2023
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Chapter 3: Reflection 9 – Seeing the Teacher
In introducing the mystical elements of Tsongkhapa’s spiritual practice and experience, Thupten Jinpa writes: One of the most intriguing aspects of Tsongkhapa’s life and, for some, perhaps the most controversial was the enduring ‘presence’ of a mysterious teacher whom he referred to as Guru Mañjuśrī … All traditional sources, including the earliest biographical works composed…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 8 – “What Did It Mean to Say ‘I Saw?’”
As we draw close Julian’s descriptions of her visionary experiences, it might be useful to begin to reflect on the mystical experience of a Tibetan Buddhist living in the same period, Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Tsongkhapa in the history of the people of Tibet, the Land of Snows.…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 7 – “Opening the Inner Doors”
After Julian is repositioned as she requested, so that her heart might be more open and available to meditate on God, she is visited by a priest: My curate was sent for to be at my ending, and by then he cam I had set up my eyen and might not speake. He set the…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 6 – To Have the More Freedom of My Heart
Then was I stered to be set upright, underlening with helpe, for to have the more fredom of my hart to be at Gods will, and thinke on God while me life woulde last. 1 In the first sentences of his “The Form of Living,” Richard Rolle writes that, within each woman or man that…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 5 – To Think on God While My Life Would Last
Thus I indured till day, and by then was my body dead from the middes downward, as to my feeling. Then was I stered to be set upright, underlening with helpe, for to have the more fredom of my hart to be at Gods will, and thinke on God while me life woulde last. 1…
Julian of Norwich and Other Tibetan Lamas 