A very simple method

How do we get from the mind to the heart? We follow a very simple method, a very simple teaching on how to do it, a practical method. We take this tradition from the early Church, in particular, from the early Christian monks of the Christian desert. The teacher of St Benedict was a monk called John Cassian. He learned this from the early monks of the Christian desert, who themselves received it from the Apostolic Fathers, they said. This is it: you take a single word, a prayer word, a short phrase and you repeat this word in your mind, in your heart, during the time that we set aside for meditation.

Meditating as a Christian by Laurence Freeman OSB