The Christian Meaning of Enlightenment 

This man is an absolute gift to the world.

I am so glad Christianity is growing up so beautifully. About time! Bless you Fr Richard xx

I cannot say enough good things about Father Rohr. He gets it. What could Christianity really be and do if we all understood things in a non-dualistic, mystical, enlightened way? No more dangling carrots. It's here. It's in you. It's in me. It's in everything. 🙏

I’m a Christian who is on the spiritual journey of enlightenment! Thank you for this video. 🙏🏻🧘‍♂️😇💐💕

Dear Richard, no one can teach us about the love of Jesus better than you. You have helped me to be better Christian and brought me closer to Jesus. God bless you.

This gentleman’s message needs to be heard. It makes such sense. Until we can defeat the ego we aren’t going to get very far. Bless you Fr. Richard.

God grant you many years, Fr. Rohr.

Truly brings the Bible to life.

"Where you stumble and fall, there you'll find gold."

I realized the importance of what Jesus said, "Love your enemy and bless those who curse you."

Grace was given here un asked for undeserved ….it radically changed this life one could say over night….though there was a seeming journey to understand what had happened…which ended in the joy of not knowing or needing to know…Amen…om shanti shanti shanti🕉☯️❤️🙏🏼

When he said quantum physics my heart skipped a beat! This guy is 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

This man is a gem. This is why mainstream Christianity is dying...hopefully real Christianity will take its place.

A new theology, a new spirituality given to us by one of the greatest Masters of our time. It will reach, with all its transformative richness, with its deepest Christian Truth, those who are called to live in the light, and change Christianity.

Thank you Fr Richard for “ giving me permission “ to be where I am in this world. I’ve been on this spiritual journey a while, and have stumbled a lot! I studied eastern religion a little bit, and thought, too bad I can’t practice that way, but you explain things so well, I think I get it, that I don’t have to leave any thing out.

This is a very holy (and whole) man

I always imagine God listening to us reciting the Apostles Creed in church and after we say it He says, "And?".

What a brace man, to try to take the word and make it not only accessible but compatible with that which most Christian’s consider to be “other” or outside of Christian thought. So many people would be angry after hearing this man speak, but inclusion is the way of Jesus. Thank you for your boldness and your truth. And most of all for using both minds to see the gospel with fresh eyes. Peace and love brothers and sisters

Love this lecture. So insightful and spiritually building

Only Christian I’ve heard that speaks my language! Let’s accept each other with kindness. ♥️🌹

Wow! 😮 A thumbs up from me! Thank you for sharing. I could listen to Richard all day.

Enlightenment. The endowing of the True Light. To behold the truth of reality in Love.

Everything illuminated becomes light.

Blessing to Brother Rohr! May God's big Heart fill us!

Mind is blown!

This is a ride of revelation!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

I left Catholicism (and all religions, although I feel a deep kinship with Buddhism) long ago because what I had been taught made no impact on me. It was just a learnt parroting of beliefs that I didn't truly believe. He has restored a sense that Christianity does have something to offer that can make a real difference in how life is lived and experienced.

What a treasure Richard Rohr is... especially for those of us who have turned our backs to Christianity because of its narrowness.

simply beautiful

AMEN!

Thank you, Mr Rohr xx

Honesty is always beautiful ❤🎉

It feels as if l am hearing my inner thoughts, beliefs, dreams and hopes, enunciated for the first time.

If Christianity recognized this I would never have left Christendom. They miss the beauty and the joy. They are unable to see the perfection of their own being, made in the image of ----

Beautiful

The Greek Fathers understood 'salvation' as the process of gratuitous deification enabled by the loving mercy of God in the Incarnation and the Resurrection. This tradition is still alive and well in the Orthodox Church.

This is huge.

Prophet Richard Rohr is the touch something in me that open up my eyes that light it's like a light turned on in my third eye no he's real close to what I think God Jesus the Holy Spirit it's trying to bring across to humanity come on now he close 2 spiritual reality games in Highland Park Michigan

Our blessed Mother keep this Brother Rohr.

This was an amazing presentation. Thank you so much!

Narrow is the way and few find it

Wonderful guidance 🌹🙏🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓

Wonderfully informative

The Fellowship of the mystery is how Paul the Apostle encountered and experienced the knowledge of Christ.

Thank you for sharing :-)

Good stuff pastor 😊

HE WHO HEARS U, HEARS ME,

Father Richard, thank you for these diamonds and jades you share with us without any charge.

The jack hammer and saws tho... Boston College should have re located this talk. Such a wonderful talk!

Have countries with a non-dualistic mindset been any better than “Christian” countries at loving?

Thank you Richard. In Hebrew there is no sound w. It's yehovah. Ye, God, who is ah. You are still correct.

Thanks Marta Spain 🙏

There is an interesting theory that when Jesus referred to ‘the eye’ singularly he was actually talking about yogic wisdom about the pineal gland and meditation/enlightenment techniques.

Does anyone know from which translation of the Bible he's quoting?

The man is brill

I love how he embraces his title of heretic.

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40 years in an hour....proof RR has unitive experience

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Has inspired me to post on face book great what one migth say is well-informed mysticism etc , the song we are ONE IN THE SPIRIT comes to mind as we sat round thumping our jambees, original participation the axial period is nothing more than the loss of this and the growth of the tradition , the convention the system which becomes quite naturally corrupt , Jesus was pre and post axial , he was One and bothe post the conventional modality which is so muddled with "neuroticism" as to be as much an obstacle as a help .

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Seems enlightenment is taking over the understanding of salvation!

Thanks Marta 🙏 Marta Spain

While I admit there is a great deal of truth to Fr. Rohr's teachings, I struggle with the "non-dual" mind. I don't think the non-dual mind offers a sufficient explanation for the existence of evil, nor does it allow for the mind to grow/learn. How can the mind/human grow/learn from mistakes if it can't critique itself? Also, how can the human race deal with the evils of the world if we don't have a dualistic mind? For example, just because I have a non-dualistic mind, doesn't mean everyone else will. Murderers will still kill people. So how do we create a system that will prevent people from doing that without a dualistic mind? A non-dual thinker says, we can't judge, let only God judge. However, if we don't judge there is a high probability this individual will kill again. While I agree, that we need to tone down our dualistic minds and stop passing judgement in many ways in our lives, I don't think it's possible to abolish it. I'm not saying we need to perfectly define justice, but we need some sort of justice system to stop clear objectively true evils in the world. Once you say you need to define objective evil, you need a dual thinking mind to judge what is good, and what is evil. This is necessary to create a society in which heaven can be present on earth.

Seriously , prayers for you . Blessings & lots of love....very sad.

There is another esoteric understanding of the name Allah. al (The) La (No-Thing) H(-ness) God is Nothingness, that is to say, that God is beyond Thingness. The word thing is related to Think / Thought, so it means beyond comprehension.

Perfect

I agree with Richard. But he should also say some positive things about the Catholic Chruch too. Every time he mentions the Church it's to say something negative. I think the good that the Church did and well as the bad needs to be acknowledged.

Christian term for enlightenment is called salvation. Easy peasy

Infinite love will not make a finite conclusion. There is no hell because the is no vengeful conclusion. That’s ludicrous

Something I don't understand here. RR is a Catholic who, as far as I know, has not been ex-communicated. So, is he espousing Catholic doctrine? Is this is what is now taught in Catholic Churches? I ask because it seems very far from my understanding of how the RC sees itself. (Of course my 'understanding' could be and probably is, very flawed - which is why I am asking the question.)

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So much hate in this comment section for this man. So sad so many can't recognize the Truth. So many threatened by this message.

I’ll put it simply the Catholic religion is not another denomination that is a completely different religion! The true church has always understood this!

Hello darkest my old friend, I've come to talk to you one again...

What bible are u preaching from?

Who is this speaker, please?

Why is he referring to John 1:9 as "light that IS coming to the world" 20:45, while Bible translations use past tense?

The Enlightenment, a philosophical movement that dominated in Europe during the 18th century, was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and advocated such ideals as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state

Wow. And who are you?

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I’m sorry but the same one who said love your enemy, also said don’t cast your jewels too the swine…

IF WE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND jesus 2000 years ago,who are u 2000 years later,that we should listen to u?

You make it sound like god and christ are two enities.

Why do I have to side with (a) progressives who tolerate everything or (b) conservatives who damn everyone to hell who doesn't subscribe to their dogmas? It's the dilemma that prevents me from being either left or right wing politically.

Please “ All The Facts And New Facts Too For His Truths Discernment’s” “ “ All Our Lord Savior Christ “ His Teachings In relationships “ Of “All” Each” Events “ for “His@Truths “Discernment’s “ Not just picking and Dabbling “. “ please keep Seeking Keep Spreading His Good News “ Love Common Sense “Truths Discernment’s “ His Blessings “

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So many people have been sent to Psychiatric institutions for proclaiming we are one, I am in all and all is in me.

Read Owen Barfield. It's much more than what impression one gets here. It's not like we made a mistake. It's actually a neccessary step towards final participation. Owen barfield says we lost some things, and gained others. We must now regain in a conscious manner what we lost, the particpatory, not by simply going backwards, but rather by understanding the developments, keeping the value. We have for example gained an actual ability to appreciate nature for her own sake, where consciousness before would be interrested in nature as a sort of mirror of oneself, and even earlier not really have the ability to distinguish anything and even be aware of individual existence. It's not a mistake that we hsve that now, but it's not the end of the story either.

No duality, no unity.

Why is there someone running a chainsaw in the background?

“Binary thinking is bad…” but to even make such a judgement is binary thinking, isn’t it? Is Jesus not being binary when he separates the sheep from the goats? You cannot escape rationality unless you enter irrationality The problem is human sin, not rational thought itself

This is a very confusing non lecture.

It is too late ,

WE kNOW WHO JESUS WAS ALREADY 2000 YEARS, AGO. the disciples or apostles knew better than 21 century pop psychology

His teaching on compassion is Biblical, however he has departed from Scripture teaching that forgiveness of sins is not necessary. Alternative Franciscan Orthodoxy doctrine states that no atonement for sin is necessary. Without the blood atonement of Christ, there is no salvation. That is not Biblical, but is the popular antiChrist spirit of the age. True sheep, stay with the words of Christ in Scripture and beware the angel of light is most seductive. Blessings!

This is not Christianity; it's Perennialism and nondualism which is what Rohr supports and believes in. He teaches it using Christian references but it's not what Christians have confessed for 2,000 years.

So the devil is not real? I’ve had supernatural experiences of the demonic spiritual realm and so have millions of others, what explanation is there for this

YES I didn't like TM either the great who say ? See exactly TM just projecting out of his shadow quote Jung but do not understand him , he was a mixed up old man I am afraid . That is the ego must be understood by a process of self therapy analysis deconstruction and self-examination , "being" is so easily hijacked by the ego mind .