Freedom Of The Heart

By Volker Schunck

How can one live today? How can one live in a society that is in a digital flush, and in which its people have become disoriented?
In a time where everyone thinks only of himself, and it has become suspicious to speak of "values" which one still searches for so desperately. The picture- and information-flood of television and Internet fascinates and dazzles our hearts at the same time. We are alienated from ourselves and from God. It is hard for God, from whom we should not make an image, and who is invisible, in our media age, which is dominated by images.
Our hearts need silence to come back to ourselves again - and to God too. Out of this silence we learn to listen and to see again. The life and sermons of Jesus offer a way out of our misery. For God is near and heaven is in you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Volker Schunck
• Release date: Nov 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310078224

Volker Schunck

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the freedom of the heart comes from the heart of silence

Table of Contents

Copyright

Table of Contents

About me

Preface

Belief

Now

The rich young man

The Logos

Jesus' resurrection

Celebrating Christmas with Meister Eckhart

The one Human

Beam me up, Scotty!

Pentecost

Another dimension

God and the humans - a parable

About doing nothing

God is one.

King of hearts

Thoreau

Improvisations

The Matrix

About God's absence

Credo: God in Creation

Credo: God in Christ

Credo: God in Humans

The Freedom of the heart comes from the heart of silence

Jesus hangs on the cross

Jesus is risen

About me

I live in Dresden, Germany. I was a merchant and then I studied theology - without degree. Through my engagement with Zen I became aware of the Christian mysticism. Meanwhile I go my own way. Believe is not a thinking but a being. It is important to me, not to live lost in thought, but to live aware and intensely.

My Christian faith and my experiences in meditation influence my everyday life, in which I try to be attentive. My books arise from this spirit too.

Table of Contents

Preface

How can one live today? How can one live in a society that is in a digital flush, and in which its people have become disoriented?

In a time where everyone thinks only of himself, and it has become suspicious to speak of values which one still searches for so desperately. The picture- and information-flood of television and Internet fascinates and dazzles our hearts at the same time. We are alienated from ourselves and from God. It is hard for God, from whom we should not make an image, and who is invisible, in our media age, which is dominated by images. Our hearts need silence to come back to ourselves again - and to God too. Out of this silence we learn to listen and to see again. The life and sermons of Jesus offer a way out of our misery. For God is near and heaven is in you!

God bless you!

Yours Volker

Table of Contents

Belief

Let me tell you something. I have the same thoughts for a few weeks: It becomes clearer to me that how I as Volker Schunck experience God and how I believe in God is unique. John Q. Public certainly believes and experiences God totally different than I do. So everything what I say about God is subjective and no objective truth. And so the different religions are only different views on one and the same God. If I had been born and grown up in Turkey or Pakistan I would definitely be a Muslim. If my parents had been Jewish I would have become Jewish. If I had been grown up in India, I guess I would believe in Brahma, Vishnu or Shiva. As an Hindu I would believe in reincarnation and I would not believe to see after death the face of God how it is described in the bible. But the longer you study the religions the more obvious it is how similar the religions are to each other. The religions arose for primeval times because humans made experiences with God in their special cultural environment. These experiences are told verbally over thousands of years from one generation to the next. Sometimes these narratives were written down. In the same way special rites and cultic celebrations were passed on until the present day. Look at the church services. You see, I as a Christian have not the right to proclaim an absolute truth claim neither any other religion.

The 3 monotheistic religions, which still adore one God: the jewish religion, the Islam and the Christian religion are joined in their history of origin close together. The Islam and the Jewish faith see both to have their roots in the ancestor Abraham. And the Christian faith has been arisen from the Jewish faith. Apart from that these 3 religions have developed in different directions, e.g. the Christian faith doesn't believe in Mohammed and Jesus Christ is in the Islam only a prophet and not the son of God, except for that there is a lot what these religions connects. In my opinion there is more what they connects than what they separates. Therefore I feel closer to a religious turk than to a so-called western atheist. As I believe in God depends on the environment in which I grew up. So I'm a Christian to the core and that constitutes me as Volker Schunck. I want you to respect this! Well, I'm interested in how you believe in God and maybe we can learn from each other. But please don't try to evangelise me. I promise you I won't try to evangelise you too.

What do I mean by learning from each other? I can learn from other religions. Zen-Meditation which is practiced primarily in Buddhism has very enriched my life and my life as a Christian. You will ever find areas where the religions overlap but there are also areas where I can't follow and which don't feel good for my christian conscience. This is a personal border which I have to respect.

We always select in the daily life. This or that cellphone, travelling to India, Europe or staying at home. And this is similar to the religions, which always selected right from the start what is compatible to their belief and what is not.

Look at the Christian religion which selected since the beginning what can be absorbed from other religions and how statements from the Jewish and pagan environment can be combined with the Christian faith. As well the Jewish faith: the creation account in the Old Testament - the verbal tradition was written down between 600-500