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The Eightfold Path

The eightfold path can be understood as the unfolding of eight forces of love:

  1. Thinking
  2. Practicing
  3. Speaking
  4. Mediating
  5. Reconciling
  6. Connecting
  7. Devotion
  8. Become one

Interpreted in the light of the Sermon on the Mount, the requirements of the eightfold path change into offers:


First,


the life forces in thinking want to be grasped and strengthened.


Second,

 

practicing wants to be brought from the mind into everyday life.


Thirdly,


living speech out of the logos wants to be unfolded.


Fourth,

 

taking action from the depths of life wants to take on its role as mediation.


Fifthly,


a living balance between opposites gradually wants to come into being.


Sixth,


the previous striving leads to a deep connection with life.


Seventh,


through this devotion towards life is enhanced.


Eighth,


the will mouths into a life in meditation.


These thoughts as well as the sections "Task" and "Offer" in this course are based on suggestions from the writings of Wilhelm Floride:

I WANT                                                               

in order to find the smile of the gods ...
drink all tears ...
dedicate myself to earth ...
bow before the stars ....
and breathe the wideness.

embrace the moment ...
understand every heartbeat ... 
look into everyone’s eyes  ...
bless all things ...
live deeply out of silence.

I WANT



Wilhelm Johann Floride, born on October 24, 1959 in Ensdorf, Germany, died on March 25, 2016 in Vienna. He was a curative educator, who had four children. He had supernatural experiences since early childhood. Artistic elaboration of Schiller's ideas about the role of the play for human development. Editor of numerous manuscripts around Kaspar Hauser. Arrangements of the Gospels and the Apocalypse of John. Seminar activity in Paris, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.