Adyashanti shared a pointer years ago that has repeatedly enhanced our rapid embodiment of Truth. When we read the writings of masters, we take to heart Adya’s advice to ask with a spacious heart what would our experience as Truth be for these words we are reading to be our words.
This approach has become our spontaneous approach through the years. Following this pointer, the words of many masters have come to life. The Bible has, at times, felt less inspired than talks, writings, and art by other masters.
Recently, one of our sangha members gave us a set of CDs with talks by Reverend Patricia Fresen, a Roman Catholic Priest. Mother Fresen points out the original language of Christ was Aramaic, but the traditional English translations have all come through Greek interpretations. She pointed us to the writings of Neil Douglas Klotz. Mr. Klotz is a scholar who has gone back to the original Aramaic scrolls, Peshitta, for inspiration and interpretation.
The words of Christ as conveyed in interpretations and transliterations from Aramaic bring Life to Christ’s words. This Life is often suppressed in the Aramaic to Greek to Italian to English translations we typically encounter.
The Lord’s Prayer carries a much different flavor and energy when translated from Aramaic.
Below is our attempt to bring the energy and meaning of the Aramaic words reportedly uttered by Christ as The Lord’s Prayer to English.
The Lord’s Prayer
Mother/Father whose vibrations go out into all that is, make us a resonating space for Your vibrations as Silence.
Unite our will as Your will, create Your reign in unity now.
Let Your love unite all that is through harmony.
Grant us daily growth through wisdom and sustenance.
Transmute our frustrated hopes and dreams, embracing us as Emptiness as we embrace others as Emptiness.
Deceived neither by the outer nor the inner, free us to walk Your path as Joy.
From You flows spirit and vitality, producing and sustaining all life, every virtue, and glorious harmony, moment to moment.
Truly, glory to these statements. May they be the ground from which all our actions grow, breathed in Peace and Love.
Namaste, Bec and Steve