Common ground : letters to a world community of meditators

Description: The first Christian meditation Center was started by John Main in 1975. Since then a steadily growing community of Christian meditators has spread around the world, from Australia to Brazil, from London to Singapore.

This is the second collection of Letters to Meditators written by Laurence Freeman, director of the World Community for Christian Meditation. The theme of the book is taken from the last letter, which describes the pilgrimage of two hundred Christian meditators and their Buddhist friends to Bodhgaya, India, the most sacred site of Buddhism, where they shared three days of dialogue and meditation with the Dalai Lama and his community. "Under the Bodhi," says Father Freeman, "we meditate together. The common ground is meditation: the silent, still, simple, non-disputational consciousness that we are essentially good and that the universe is friendly...By discovering the treasure of contemplative practice hidden in the field of our faiths, the common ground of humanity is brought to the open field of awareness." -- from back cover

Table of Contents:
Letter one : holistic community
Letter two : unblocking love
Letter three : the cloud of unknowing
Letter four : clarity
Letter five : the punctuality of the spirit
Letter six : a backward glance
Letter seven : friendship
Letter eight : holiness
Letter nine : love in prison
Letter ten : Holy Land
Letter eleven : wounded healers
Letter twelve : loving earthly beauty
Letter thirteen : common ground
Chronicle of the community 1995-1998
The World Community for Christian Meditation
Medio Media Ltd.

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