Founded to provide an affirming environment for individuals who are committed to an inter-spiritual approach to spirituality, encompassing all faiths and all traditions, and who wish to express their spirituality in a universal tradition without dogma.
You don't have to live in a monastary, convent or temple to be spiritual!
The Universalus Interspiritual Community is founded as a non-residential community for women and men in 2010 to:
1. Provide a supportive, accepting, and affirming environment for individuals who are committed to a universal approach to spirituality, encompassing all faiths and all traditions, and who wish to express their spirituality in a tradition without dogma.
2. Provide service and good works to the community-at-large, especially those who are disenfranchised and marginalized.
3. Promote the healing of the human experience wherein each person may realize his or her unique wholeness.
The Universalus Community dedicate themselves to compassion among all sentient beings, human and animal.
All are welcome to join us in our commitment If you do not live in the Baltimore, MD metropolitan area, we invite you to join us online as a spiritual affiliate of the Community.
What is asked of you?
As a community member, you have the support of others who are sharing this path with you. In this connection, you are able to generate a field of compassionate love or loving compassion that unifies us as human beings on this humble planet. As members, male or female, we are present to the simplicity of Awareness.
1. Individual daily meditation
We accomplish a sense of loving compassion through inner awareness by meditative practices. While you are free to choose your particular type of practice, we strongly suggest Zazen practice daily.
2. Collective meditation and reflection
Coming together for shared meditation and reflection is part of our communal life. Designated periods of communal mediation will be scheduled on a regular basis and all members of the community are encouraged to attend when possible.
3. Awareness of, and respect for, the beliefs and rituals of all faiths.
Members of the community are encouraged to plan and implement Interfaith spiritual ceremonies for the edification of thethe community-at-large. These events will generally not be held on Sunday mornings, and may be held weekday evenings, only because many of those who work weekday jobs may be unable to attend during the weekday. They will be scheduled on Sunday afternoons or weekday evenings because many members may be attending their own particular religious services or spiritual practices on Saturdays, or Sunday mornings.
4. Willingness to teach
Your particular spiritual journey and/or faith practice has implications for all of us. It is important that we all be teachers and learners for each other. We wish to learn what your individual experience has taught you, so that your experience can teach us.
5. Commitment to playfulness, humor and joyfulness
We recognize and accept our imperfections and those of others, and also realize at a deeper level we are children of the Universe and are here to enjoy the world, even in the midst of our own pain and chaos, and that pain that is evident in the world at large. We strive for lightness and live in the moment with Joy.
6. Commitment to honesty and integrity
As members of the community we agree to always be honest with ourselves and each other, and to act with integrity in all of our actions.
We are an autonomous community affiliated with the Order of Universal Interfaith (OUnI.org)
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