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 being discouraged by the wrong expectations normalizing sexuality monks, new and traditional, need to deal with their sexuality interfaith vs inter spirituality intimate fellowship beyond borders and much much more… ▶ WATCH ON FACEBOOK ▶ WATCH ON YOUTUBE ▶ PURCHASE RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion in hardcover, paperback, and/or Kindle formats on Amazon ▶ WRITE your REVIEW of RADICAL PERSONALISM ▶ CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION: Gaudiya Reform Forum on Facebook. ▶ FOR MORE INFO: SwamiPadmanabha.com