Dipping A Piece of White Cotton 1000 Times

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Monks and nuns in the Indian tradition wear the kavi, a very simple garment in a bright orange color–what we might call a habit. Its intense color is achieved by dipping a piece of white cotton in yellow dye a thousand times. The monastics wear this color as a remnder of their need to dip again and again into the Divine through meditation in order to attain the transformation they desire. M. Basil Pennington from his book Lectio Divina
 
Although that is interesting, did you have some sort of assertion you wanted to go along with that thread? I know your SN is contemplative, but after being on this board for a while, there are very few threads just “contemplating” anything… Usually someone either gives advice, or gets in a fight
 
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Although that is interesting, did you have some sort of assertion you wanted to go along with that thread? I know your SN is contemplative, but after being on this board for a while, there are very few threads just “contemplating” anything… Usually someone either gives advice, or gets in a fight
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Stop for a moment. Listen to all the voices around you.
 
When I lived in Lake In The Hills, the village water had an extremly high iron content. On the days when the village flushed the fire hydrants, you did not want to launder any whites or they would come out almost that orange. I don’t know why, possibly that much water pressure being released through one valve disturbed rust sediment in the water mains.

Those monks could have saved a lot of time by finding out when LITH was going to flush hydrants, then coming over and running them through one wash cycle. One or two more dips in the yellow dye to bring out the brightness would have been enough.
 
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I know your SN is contemplative, but after being on this board for a while, there are very few threads just “contemplating” anything… Usually someone either gives advice, or gets in a fight
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That’s actually a very good observation. That’s why it’s even more important to have a voice like contemplative’s here on this forum.

Mike
 
Dear contemplative,

Thanks for that information. I appreciate it.

Best,

reen12
 
I agree. Very interesting. When you say “Monks and nuns in the Indian tradition wear the kavi” what do you mean by Indian tradition? The Syro-Malankar and Syro-Malabar churches?
 
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I agree. Very interesting. When you say “Monks and nuns in the Indian tradition wear the kavi” what do you mean by Indian tradition? The Syro-Malankar and Syro-Malabar churches?
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It appears that both Hindus and Christians wear the bright kavi. I can’t be certain which monks & nuns Pennington was referring to when he wrote the passage.

This little bit of information from Pennington from his book Lectio Divina is interesting …something I never knew before. When I see pictures of these religious in their kavis I will have a better understanding of them.
 
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Its intense color is achieved by dipping a piece of white cotton in yellow dye a thousand times. The monastics wear this color as a remnder of their need to dip again and again into the Divine through meditation in order to attain the transformation they desire.
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Inspiration, perception, & the analogy opens one mind to a number of Christian thoughts…

St Thomas had to dip his finger in the wounds of Christ. John 20:27
To have Faith without sight…

The Lords Prayer, the Liturgy of the Hours, the Rosary all are meditations on the wonders of our God.
May the Colors of the Rainbow remind us of the covenant God has with his people. Gen 9: 13
 
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Inspiration, perception, & the analogy opens one mind to a number of Christian thoughts…

St Thomas had to dip his finger in the wounds of Christ. John 20:27
To have Faith without sight…

The Lords Prayer, the Liturgy of the Hours, the Rosary all are meditations on the wonders of our God.
May the Colors of the Rainbow remind us of the covenant God has with his people. Gen 9: 13
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Thank you
 
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