Anyway, I found my way to my favourite part of this service (now with an updated link on the blogroll) - Off the Record with articles by Diogenes. The other day, there was a classic: Prayer While Shaving.
Apparently an Indian priest has told people that a good way to pray is to gaze at themselves in the mirror for an hour to discover the "god within". This promotes universal solidarity because then you realise that there is no difference between christians and hindus etc. Diogenes comments:
And he has a point, you know. If your prayer consists in staring at yourself, the particulars of your creed don't matter too much. Lex orandi and all that.Like Diogenes, I too am not yet ready for this form of prayer - for much the same reasons.
2 comments:
I stare at myself in the mirror for 30 mins each morning... it's called "doing my make-up" !
Does that mean I can chalk it up as my half-hour daily meditation?
;-)
They may have changed the format but not the irritating practice of restricting comments to those who have made donations to the site. As a matter of fact the whole site seems rather full of itself and puffed up with its own self importance. One wishes Diogenes would find a new home.
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