Letting go of the thoughts as they arise, that’s all you have to do. Just let go of them. You don’t have to eliminate them, you don’t have to repress them or destroy them. You just let them go, one after the other. And of course the way in which we do that is this very simple way of Christian meditation that was handed down to us from those very early teachers and disciples, to take a single word, sacred word, a holy word, and to repeat this word, this prayer word continuously throughout the time of the meditation, and returning to this word with fidelity. And when you first try to meditate it seems very strange because you’re not thinking about God, and you’re not thinking about yourself or your problems or what you want God to do for you, and that doesn’t seem like prayer. So a lot of good people who pray well will say there’s something in meditation but it doesn’t seem like prayer, it’s not like the prayer that I was taught.
( Christian Life in the Light of Christian Meditation 2, Laurence Freeman )
