Hi there. This is another installment of In The Moment. Thanks for watching.
You know that on this show I usually make impromptu remarks, and there are probably people who say, “geez, I wish he would make promptu remarks once in a while. And in fact, I do.
But today, I’m back from a retreat at Claymont, during which we examined practical work and included some material from Meister Eckhart and Gurdjieff. And there are a few thoughts I’ve had as a consequence of this retreat.
One of them is, what if it turned out that everything you thought you knew about being alive and what it consisted of was somehow incorrect?
What if everything that you did, no matter what it was, was missing a certain element, almost as though—as Christ put it—you’d made a dish and forgotten the salt, what gave it taste and life?
And indeed, we have to have salt because just as the salt in the ocean is necessary for all the creatures that live in it, so the salt in our blood is the same; because its salt content is, in an odd but perhaps almost unexpected way, basically the same as the salt content of the ocean.
We need salt, but we don’t just need the element salt, as important as it is for the structure of life within creation.
No, we don’t just need that salt. We need the salt of Being.
This is a different kind of salt. And the salt of Being is our organic sensation.
And as I explained to the folks at Claymont, and I say to people often, basically everything I do is aimed at helping people to find a way to open to an organic sensation of being.
