Levitcus Selections for Yom Kippur

  Levitcus Selections for Yom Kippur - Day of At-One-Ment

From  Achrey Mot: 16.1-18.30

Seventh month tenth day practice self-denial  A fasting day

A teaching guidance for all time

Day of atonement, cleansed of all sins   (from Lev. 16)

Yah speaks to Moshe  God speaks to Moses and to all of us  

Don’t come at will into your inner shrine, but first bathe in water 

Then come with a sin offering and a burnt offering

A sin offering, confess your error(s)

And a burnt offering -- offer up your suffering or self-discipline

Stand before Yah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting

With glowing coals scooped from the altar and handfuls of aromatic incense

Glowing coals, sincere devotion; aromatic incense, heartfelt prayers

Wash your clothes, bathe in water.  Re-enter the camp 

You’re clothed in your actions, which is your aura

Do good and be good, and thus re-enter the holy assembly

I am Yah – El, the Lord your God

Faithfully follow my guidelines and teachings

By pursuing these, you shall live (in reality with refined awareness)

Do not become physically intimate with family members

Nor with others during times of menstruation

Nor with spouses of neighbors

Don’t marry a woman as a rival to her sister while she lives

Nor marry man as a rival to his brother while he lives

Don’t bow to false gods (fame, wealth, etc.) and thus mislead your children

Nor profane my sacred names.  I am Yah (YHVH)

Heterosexuals have physical intimacy only with other heterosexuals

Don’t have carnal relationships with any animals

For that defiles you and the land

Which (in turn) will spew you out

Avoid such practices; keep my charge. I am the Lord your God                                (from Lev 18)                    

Hot tub notes Monday night Sept 8, 2014

Good place at night out in the open under the big dark sky

Good place to watch insights arising

Feel again some awe before this great mystery

Re a kabblalah program and talk coming up in Nov

Beginners mind, Zeke’s 1^st chapter, the chariot

Vision of a chariot in the mtns

Step on in, if you dare

Uphold the throne of glory

You can’t see your own face, say the zen teachers

You see pictures and reflections in the mirrors

You can’t ever really see your own face

But if you look around, there it is

Everything we see, this is our face

My guru told me, you can teach beginners, Prahaladan

So if you’ll just please put on Beginners Mind for awhile

Like you don’t know anything; everything is new, wow

But what about my careful defenses?

I’m so vulnerable in Beginners Mind

Yes, it takes courage

And faith,

Two useful tools in this kabbalah game

Just a game, a sacred game

Enriching all the colors of our lives

As we adventure along on this training planet

Learning and serving a little here and there

But keeping it playful

I remember, I fell in love

Some weeks later she said

It was just one of those things

My mind had become very attached

My teacher suggested, go teach Yoga in another place for six weeks
Don’t think of her much during that time

You can do anything for six weeks, can’t you?

Yes, sure, I replied

And later wondered, I didn’t know I could do anything for six weeks

But sure enough, after six weeks it was not a painful issue