About this episode
The episode explores the distinction between sacrifice and offering, emphasizing the transformational aspect of offerings in spiritual practice.
Do you know the difference between a sacrifice and an offering? I think we have gone a little bit cuckoo with the word sacrifice. You know, in essence, it comes from the word sacred, but it has been devoid of an important part of that sacredness that is transformational. Therefore it is lacking in full meaning. Sacrifice is the action of consecrating. So what is it that one is consecrating without using a transformational part that has disappeared in the meaning of it? Now it reads as something you have to give up. And when you have that energy of giving up, you tend to hold on more to it. I tune more to the word offering. I have this image of a Buddhist altar or even a Christian altar, and you light a candle. You offer something. You decide to become aware of what is at stake in the relationship of what you are looking at, that you are willing to extend, you are willing to care, to bring and carry forward. It is a relationship to something bigger. So letting go is the dissolution of it, is the dissolving, is the surrendering to a new relation to yourself in those matters that comes from understanding that what you offer transforms into this new realm. I am offering myself time…
People in this episode
Host: Monika Bravo
Topics covered
- sacrifice
- offering
- transformation
- spirituality
- self-awareness
Keywords
- sacrifice
- offering
- transformation
- spirituality
- Buddhist altar
- Christian altar
- self-awareness
- clarity
- Kairos
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