School of Meditation Weekly Teachings

Weekly Teachings 19/5/2013

The essential human condition

The state of being in the Presence of God, in the Kingdom, is an inborn human capacity. Everyone can pass through the narrow gate of attention and faith

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Weekly Teachings 12/5/2013

Meditation in the Christian Tradition

As it is a human quality to be able to switch into different modes of being, many of the things I have said apply not only to meditation in the Christian tradition but also to the form of silent, attentive prayer as found in other main religious traditions.

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Weekly Teachings 5/5/2013

The importance of being rooted in a tradition

We live in an exciting age, when the teachings of the great world religions and wisdom traditions are available to all in books, through teachers or the Internet.

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Weekly Teachings 28/4/2013

Self-knowledge as first step towards the Divine

The importance of having a spiritual guide when venturing into the silence cannot be overestimated. In the Christian tradition Jesus is our anchor as well as our door into the spiritual realm.

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Weekly Teachings 21/4/2013

Self-knowledge and healing

To ask people to become more aware of what blocks them on the path to true self-knowledge often meets with resistance.

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Weekly Teachings 14/4/2013

The problem with silence

In our Western Culture the need for silence and stillness is not acknowledged. Many even feel uncomfortable with silence, even fearful of it, as John Main says in ‘Word into Silence’: “[Silence] is quite a challenge for people of our time

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Weekly Teachings 7/4/2013

The tradition and practice of Christian Meditation - 4

Reconnecting with inner silence is not only important for adults but even more so in our noisy world for children and young people.

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Weekly Teachings 31/3/2013

The tradition and practice of Christian Meditation - 3

Laurence Freeman continues: “The great theological minds and spiritual teachers of the modern era – Rahner, Balthasar, Lonergan, Merton, Main, Griffiths

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Weekly Teachings 24/3/2013

The tradition and practice of Christian Meditation - 2

Laurence Freeman continues: “In the second half of the last century John Cassian’s ‘Conferences’ led John Main back to the practice of meditation in the Christian tradition, which he had first discovered as a young man in the East.

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Weekly Teachings 17/3/2013

The tradition and practice of Christian Meditation

What makes meditation Christian is our faith in Jesus. It is Christian too because it is in a historical and theological tradition that leads directly to the mind of Christ.

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