Publication
Imprint: Norwich : Canterbury Press, 2008. Responsibility: Laurence Freeman with a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin. OCLC Number: 221191353. Physical: Text : 1 volume : ix, 118 pages ; 20 cm.
Call number
Meditation / Freem
ISBN
9781853118678
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CSS Library Notes
Description: Simplicity is the greatest challenge: in living and especially in prayer. To be simple is not easy. Yet we thirst for the authenticity of the simple, the pure and the true. It is easier to complicate prayer -- even to get argumentative about externals and secondary issues as religious people often do. The disciples of Jesus simply asked "Lord, teach us to pray."
The early monks listened to his answer and taught the way of Christian meditation -- 'pure prayer'. In this same tradition, the Benedictine monk Laurence Freeman passes on a simple way of entering the depths of the self -- to know God by knowing our selves. In silence, simplicity and stillness, developed through the 'poverty of the mantra' we can enter the mind of Christ and so taste communion with God. Through this daily practice of meditation the whole of life is transformed -- from within. -- from back cover
Table of Contents:
Forward / Yehudi Menuhin --
How to meditate --
Introduction --
The light of the Word --
Total transformation --
How long? --
Thought and feeling --
Trans-formation --
The plough --
Choosing life --
Holiness and other --
Letting go --
Time is sacred --
Love that divinizes --
Harmonious unity --
Meeting the other --
Leaving needs behind --
Rich poverty --
Seeing God --
Knowledge and experience --
The light of the self --
Happiness --
Reverence --
Power and love --
Learning to receive --
Depth --
Imagination --
Tradition --
Writings of John Main.
FY2009 /
The early monks listened to his answer and taught the way of Christian meditation -- 'pure prayer'. In this same tradition, the Benedictine monk Laurence Freeman passes on a simple way of entering the depths of the self -- to know God by knowing our selves. In silence, simplicity and stillness, developed through the 'poverty of the mantra' we can enter the mind of Christ and so taste communion with God. Through this daily practice of meditation the whole of life is transformed -- from within. -- from back cover
Table of Contents:
Forward / Yehudi Menuhin --
How to meditate --
Introduction --
The light of the Word --
Total transformation --
How long? --
Thought and feeling --
Trans-formation --
The plough --
Choosing life --
Holiness and other --
Letting go --
Time is sacred --
Love that divinizes --
Harmonious unity --
Meeting the other --
Leaving needs behind --
Rich poverty --
Seeing God --
Knowledge and experience --
The light of the self --
Happiness --
Reverence --
Power and love --
Learning to receive --
Depth --
Imagination --
Tradition --
Writings of John Main.
FY2009 /
Physical description
ix, 118 p.; 20 cm
Description
The very simplicity of meditation is often the greatest problem to would-be meditators. In Light Within, Freeman emphasizes that the fruit of meditation can only be tasted by starting to meditate.
Language
Original language
English