Why do we start to meditate?Â
March 28, 2025
The impetus for starting to meditate is often the moment when we are faced with something out of the ordinary, something that shakes us out of our ordinary perception of reality.
Kim Nataraja
Kim Nataraja is the Benedictine Oblate to the WCCM. From 1999 to 2016, Kim was director of The World Community for Christian Meditation School of Meditation.
Kim Nataraja has been a contemplative since her youth and joined The World Community for Christian Meditation in 1993. In 1998 she became a Benedictine Oblate to the Community. From 1999 to 2016, Kim was director of The World Community for Christian Meditation School of Meditation.
Kim is a trained Spiritual Director and has held a variety of meditation days/weekends and retreats in the UK, Europe, the US, Canada and Singapore. Her particular interests are those inspiring figures from the Christian spiritual tradition, who guide us in the contemplative life, and the ways in which psychological insights can aid our progress. Kim is a retired College Lecturer and former Head of Department of Modern Languages.
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How did John Main learn about meditation?
March 21, 2025
John Main was introduced to meditation when he was serving in the British Colonial Service in Malaya. During the course of his duties there he met Swami Satyananda, founder of the ‘Pure Life Society’, who lived a spiritual life dedicated to serving others.
What is Meditation?
March 14, 2025
Meditation leads to contemplative prayer by the faithful repetition of a prayer phrase or ‘mantra’ as John Main called it.  John Main rediscovered this way of prayer in the writings of the early Christians, the Desert Fathers and Mothers, who in the fourth century C.E. retired to the desert of Egypt to live an authentic Christian life based on the teaching of Jesus.