Yom Kippur 2021

join us on https://www.ravariel.com/ How to practice the spiritual essence of the Yom Kippur holiday through the lens of mindfulness and buddhist inspiration. Looking for a spiritual way into Yom Kippur? Rav Ariel brings this inspiration from his studies with the Risshō Kōsei Kai, a poem based on the Lotus Sutra. The inspirations will help you find a deeper, more meaningful day. [Text down below] The Bodhisattva regarder of sounds is the mind of deep compassion flowing through the world. Her deep compassion also flows through me. It is a one this mind of deep compassion. If someone brings me joy, that person is the bodhisattva. Regarder of sounds, if a tree brings me comfort, that tree is definitely the bodhisattva regarder of sounds. When I am someone who blames no one, I am the bodhisattva regarder of sounds. And when you are someone who forgives me, you are the revered bodhisattva, regarder of sounds, bodhisattva, regarder of sounds is the mind of deep compassion flowing through the world, flowing through you and flowing through me. She is this one, the mind of deep compassion. How do I meet myself in a mind of deep compassion it's within me? When we think about Yom Kippur we think about, oh God on the mountain wants me to fast and to think about, you know, all the things I've done wrong this year. This reading is teaching us: forget about the fast. It's about compassion. Compassion. It's not about your fasting. It's not about your penitential. It's not about how many times you strike your chest. It's not about that. It's not about any of those things, the words you say or whatever. Those are all meant to be pointing back to compassion. They're meant to be helping you become a person who sees the divinity within all things. A person who sees that the people in your life are part of that, and by paying attention to that fact, increases the spirituality of your life. The nature of the surroundings you're in can be part of that. Not only can they, they are part of that. And YOU, you are part of that. It's all part of the same thing. So when we're doing this kind of living, that's how we know we've been honoring the divine. We know we're doing it right. When we have a mind of deep compassion that we allow it to flow through us, which is flowing through all of the world, which is flowing through you, which is flowing through me. She is one the mind of deep compassion. It's all one thing. All of it, is one thing. That's what we're striving for in this year. We're striving for the ability to start looking around us and seeing that we're all part of this one unfolding of compassion. The better we are at detecting that, and we practice how to detect that - the better we are at detecting that through our gut, through our consciousness - the better we're going to be aligned. The more we'll understand from our feedback system. 'Oh, this is the right way. That's not the right way. Oh, this is the right way. Oh, that feels wrong. Let's not do that.' We'll start to set down the things that feel wrong. We'll start to move towards the things that feel right. And in time within a year, we'll look back and feel, yes, there's probably more improvements to go, but we're not working on the same struggles as we've always been. That's because we've learned to live with within ourselves. We've certainly learned to recognize the blessing of the people around us. And we learned to recognize the blessing of ourselves and of all of nature. And that we're all one part of one mind of compassion. Read the full article https://www.ravariel.com/blog/YomKippur21 ~ ~ ~ Want more inspiration? Join our spiritual training community. Together we strive to live the best life possible through Jewish mindfulness, meditation, and worldly wisdom.