How thrilling it would be if religious consciousness the world over would do the same! It is significant, I think, that Albert Einstein, who ushered in post-modern science, said that all he wanted to do in life was to study Light.
And so it is that we are meditating of late on Light and Spirit according to spiritual traditions around the world including learning from science that trees are basically made of light. We have considered recently the Jewish Biblical tradition, the Celtic tradition and the Hindu tradition as they equate Light and Divinityβand, thanks to science, matter and divinity.
What about the Buddhist tradition? This Buddha is always shining, always enlightening trees, grass, birds, human beings, and so on, always emitting light. It is this Buddha who is preaching now and not just 2, years ago.
Several years ago, I had the privilege to lecture in South Korea and afterwards a Buddhist monk came up to me and said, I have never heard of the Cosmic Christ before neither, unfortunately, have the majority of Christians. The Sacred is to be found all around us. What differences might arise were people to rediscover that earliest of all understandings of Christ?
One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths Matthew Fox calls on all the world traditions for their wisdom and their inspiration in a work that is far more than a list of theological position papers but a new way to prayβto meditate in a global spiritual context on the wisdom all our traditions share.
