The Feast

[Guest guest]

David Hodges [dhodges]

 

This is the day that in the Christian calendar is called Maundy Thursday.

It is the night of the Last Supper, the Passover meal that Jesus shared with

his disciples in the upper room. During that Passover, he used the

well-known Passover ritual to redefine terms and launched two millennia's

worth of what we here have been calling "the Eucharist".

So, on this day began and continues the spiritual transmission that began

with that first bread and that first cup. One of the things about this

ritual that makes it powerful is that one doesn't need to understand the

symbols in order to participate in the meaning. Just as I don't need to

understand Hinduism to participate in the transmission of realization from

such as Ramana or Nisargadatta, so Christians get a deep participation in

the nonDuality of spirit and matter, self and other, Being and the world.

Thus I take a bit of bread and dip it in some wine and eat. And walk out

into the garden of today, which is the only day there ever was or will be.

David

 

Harsha: Thank you for your post dear David. It is Good Friday. As usual, I

am sitting here dipping my bread in my tea. I give thanks to all the good

people who helped to make this bread and tea and allowed for this delicious

experience. I bow to the sages who have dipped their bread in the tea before

me. Our feast is the same.