Temple talks

What is a temple? A consecrated place. Consecrate is to make sacred or holy. Temporal means earth time, secular, not of heaven, a limited experience. Is it the place or the ritual that is holy? How do we discover sacredness?

In more practical terms, a temple is also defined as a space for observation marked out by the auger (drilling down tool). I like to imagine drilling down through layers where two or more people gather.

And so it came to pass that I started a series at my place called Temple Talks. It’s outside in my sacred, secular, holy, earthy, heavenly space where we talk about whatever comes up. Who needs dualities, anyway? 

A few topics that came up:

1. Life is horrid and beautiful. 
2. How do you fill your day?
3. Hummus is really good.
4. We are stardust.
5. What is a good public health system? And how do we get one?
6. Where do you go from heartbreak? 

These talks are one-on-one, seated at a distance. Since I couldn’t hold my usual summer party this year, I am inviting about 25 people, individually, for a gathering of two, over a period of several weeks.

The temporal lobe in the brain does the job of understanding speech. So, let’s talk and listen in the temple about earthly and heavenly matters. 

Lately I’ve been wondering if this is a sacred time. Sacred isn’t always pleasant. If you move some letters around, you get “scared.” 

I walked my regular walk with a slightly new intention today and when I returned home I wrote this: