Teachingp. 150.91
Sh'ma Kolaynu Progression
From petition to Kabbalah to unity, phrase by phrase: "Hear my voice, not just what I'm saying."
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Sh'ma Kolaynu Progression From Petition to Kabbalah To Unity. Hearmy voice, not just what I'm saying, but hear the depth of feeling that's latent in my voice. Eternal Consciousness Our personal Divine force. 0 God! rm getting old, more alone and I'm worried, and beginning to feel abandoned! Have pity and listen to me! Don't turn a blind ear to my heartful cries and prayers. Of course you hear me, you are all consciousness! Send me a sign that I can see, a sign that you are attending to me. The presence of your active response will thrill me and reassure me . Of course you are always sending signs, your communication is everywhere! If only I had the sensitivity to perceive the signs all around me! Add your sensitivity to me, your subtlety, vitality, and your power, that I may see the signs clearer. o~n Of course you are my ally in perception, you are the field of all perceptiveness! But how can I find a quiet moment of peace to listen for a moment? If I had inner strength I could stop and then attend to Ha_vea~ect1onfor, spare, have all the signs and subtlety and help you are constantly sending me! If I consider~tt0n. (Related t~ oo khas, would only stop my internal chatter for a second to listen! Help me be quiet) Let me be quiet and to be still and find a moment of peace and become aware of all the forbear to speak. signs. You are peace! Increase my available quiet that I may overcome my fears of stopping my internal noise for a second! Of course you are always available to help me increase my quiet! You are my guide and personal environment, my womb! You Have compassion on. (From or;i1 I are symbiotic! What then can I ask of you. Womb me that I and rekhem, womb-) Womb me! Nourish take some initiative, be still for a moment, get out of my and protect me, and when I'm ready to container, my fearful mind, and hear and see and sense. birth, push me outside to a new world! (Kabayl from Kabbalah, receive) Receive in compassion and As soon as I stop to sense and listen, I am immediately inhabited by the million individual signs you are actively sending to me in response to my being. I am filled with attentiveness to the signs of your presence, activity and consciousness, your compassionate strength to overcome fearful limitations. Now I ask nothing but only to be here for a moment in receptiveness and gratitude. Integrate our prayers into the Divine Will. Let us together, You and I, raise up all my insights and prayerhunches to the Divine; as if, alongside and beyond my separate consciousness, the ShekhinaYour/Herself was davening all these prayers as waves of energy fluctuations. Let us together raise these outpourings as to be Your, the Divine's, internal chatter. Then, here we ;\re, you and me, and we are one. I am We with You andWe Am That We Shall Be. Amayn. (Divine will is 11::qRatzon)