Ep #10: A NEW MONASTICISM | feat. Rory McEntee

Join Swami Padmanabha and Rory McEntee—founder, President, and Executive Director of the Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & Interspirituality, and co-author of The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living—as they discuss a new way of conceiving an ancient way of being. Expanding Raimon Panikkar’s notion of “The Monk” as an archetype, this conversation invites a more inclusive accessibility to the total life commitment to one’s spiritual transformation and journey that was previously reserved for restricted orders within a particular tradition, and recognizes new ways that that commitment can be lived out beyond the traditional form of “monasticism”.

The flow of this river touched upon:

the needs of teachers to have peers and not just students

humanizing the over-expectations of traditional monastics

how teachers offer student’s energy back to them

teacher helps you sort through what to let go, what to embrace, and how to integrate that into humanity

monasticism as spiritual bypassing

demystifying the mystic

redefining obstacles

the power of simplicity

dichotomizing spiritual and material life

not just adding meditation to our life but our life to our meditation