Ep #10: A NEW MONASTICISM | feat. Rory McEntee

Join Swami Padmanabha and Rory McEntee—founder, President, and Executive Director of the Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & Interspirituality, and co-author of The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living—as they discuss a new way of conceiving an ancient way of being. Expanding Raimon Panikkar’s notion of “The Monk” as an archetype, this conversation invites a more inclusive accessibility to the total life commitment to one’s spiritual transformation and journey that was previously reserved for restricted orders within a particular tradition, and recognizes new ways that that commitment can be lived out beyond the traditional form of “monasticism”.

The flow of this river touched upon:

• the needs of teachers to have peers and not just students

• humanizing the over-expectations of traditional monastics

• how teachers offer student’s energy back to them

• teacher helps you sort through what to let go, what to embrace, and how to integrate that into humanity

• monasticism as spiritual bypassing

• demystifying the mystic

• redefining obstacles

• the power of simplicity

• dichotomizing spiritual and material life

• not just adding meditation to our life but our life to our meditation

• being discouraged by the wrong expectations

• normalizing sexuality

• monks, new and traditional, need to deal with their sexuality

• interfaith vs inter spirituality

• intimate fellowship beyond borders

and much much more…

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