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Meditation, in the Christian tradition - contemplation, the prayer of the Heart - is forming a world wide community. 

Our website welcomes you to this community. You can learn here about the tradition, how to meditate, how to find a local weekly group, where to go on a Christian meditation retreat, browse our audio and video channels, get books, DVDs, and weekly resources.

Left: the founder of L'Arche, Jean Vanier, and Laurence Freeman OSB. They will be leading the retreat Entering into Silent Prayer in France, between 22nd and 26th May 2013. Read more information HERE and see the schedule for the live webcast HERE.

 

Meditators' Blog 15/5/2013

First, hear 

by Bogdan Białek*

Meditation opens up our hearts for something bigger than ourselves. It allows us to stop clinging obsessively to ourselves, concentrating on what we lack and what we need, and on our problems.

Faith is the strength that enables meditation, Laurence Freeman OSB, Light Within.

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Meditatio Seminar launches proposed course on Meditation at Georgetown University

For the past year, Meditatio, the outreach of the The World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) has been collaborating with the Georgetown McDonough School of Business in introducing meditation to MBA students.

On Tuesday 9th April, this collaboration reached a new level with the seminar Leading from the Center. The Seminar focused on how the practice of meditation enhances the professional effectiveness of leaders and also how it helps develop an ethical culture in finance and business.

 

Above: Dean of the Business School, David Thomas, formerly of the Harvard Business School, welcomed the three speakers and affirmed the School's commitment to teaching meditation in its academic curriculum.

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Meditatio Newsletter March issue

In the Meditatio Newsletter March Issue you can read Laurence's letter, news about the community and other reflections. In this issue:
- A story on the WCCM pilgrimate to India and Day of Dialogue with the Dalai Lama
- Laurence Freeman's letter
- New Meditatio Centre in London, more news, movie review, infocus and releases

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE NEWSLETTER

The Music Project

The Music Project is being led by Michael Rathbone and Vincent Bonelli, in London. The idea is to invite people from the Community around the world to contribute music and make a CD.

Would you like to be part of this project?
We suggest you to send your song file to music@wccm.org with
the lyric and a description of yourself in your connection with the Community.

 

 

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John Main Collected Talks

The Collected Talks of John Main make available to people today the unique and transforming power of his oral teaching. The best form of a spiritual teaching has always been the spoken word. These talks were the first phase of what later became The World Community for Christian Meditation, the global contemplative family that continues to grow through the inspiration of his teaching. Each of the eight sets of the Collected Talks is published as a book with the same title.

 

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Watch videos of Way of Peace Dialogue

Videos of Way of Peace Dialogue are available at our YouTube channel. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Laurence Freeman OSB met on 12 January 2013, in Sarnath, India, for a day of Dialogue. They discussed Jesus and the Buddha and what discipleship means in an increasingly secular world.

>> WATCH VIDEOS HERE  >>PHOTOS

 

 

John Main Seminar 2013

Desert Wisdom & Oriental Spirituality : Inner Silence

Led by Joseph Wong OSB
Pre-Seminar retreat led by Laurence Freeman OSB
Hong Kong September 16-25, 2013

The practice of Christian meditation taught by John Main can be traced back to the Desert Fathers, in their effort to achieve inner silence and thereby union with God through purity of heart and unceasing prayer. The contemplative-prophetic spirituality of our time is a development from this tradition. Joseph Wong will explore this ancient wisdom, showing its affinity with some Buddhist practices and indicating its contemporary relevance.

JMS 2013 Official Website

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Interview: Ray Dalio

"Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had", Ray Dalio, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates, in conversation at the John Main Centre for Meditation and Inter-Religious Dialogue at Georgetown University.

Ray Dalio on Meditation from Meditatio WCCM on Vimeo.

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