If you watch this, set a timer when the meditation starts and stop the video. They jump from the beginning of the centering prayer to the conclusion.

Thank you blessings 🙏

This was very inspiring. I only wish that the editor would have left in the 15 minutes on contemplation so that I Cod have practiced along. But thank you such for sharing your practice!

(. REHAB TIME! ). ONE OF THE GREATEST SPHERE-UAL PRACTICES IS SPEND TIME WITH UR CHILDREN LET THEM BRING EU INTO THEIR WHRILD AND INTO THEIR WAVE OF SEAING THINGS AND SIMPLY TO FOLLOW ALONG. FACTS OVA FEELINGS!

@bigkd8013

Жыл бұрын

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Ableist?

Who decided she was a mystic?????

@456quip

2 ай бұрын

I’m with the beautiful David Steindl Rast on this one: “the mystic is not a special kind of person but every person is a special kind of mystic.” I guess it depends on how you define things?

This is simply Buddhistic extinction of the self. Certainly not the mind of Christ. The Crucifixion, then, is but incidental to this evolutionary progression of the spirit. Contemplative Prayer is to contemplate nothing.

@deirdrehbrt

8 ай бұрын

This is really not Buddhism. This is much more Quaker and listening for God and the still small voice. It may not be your practice of Christianity, but that doesn't make it invalid. There are many ways to be Christian.

@almilligan7317

8 ай бұрын

@@deirdrehbrt i think when you deny the atonement you sort of stop being a Christian. Certainly there are many gods and many ways to access them but there is only one way to the Father. I can’t think of another religion that calls god the Father. Also, I can’t find in the New Testament where Christians are told to chant or contemplate the great nothingness. In the contemplative movement God and you are one already, that is what you are trying to realize by extinguishing the self. They deny Christ Crucified. Of course there are vestiges of Christianity in its many manifestations. I don’t know about the Quakers. I don’t believe their sitting in silence calls for nothingness. Don’t they wait for the Word to speak to them?

@deirdrehbrt

8 ай бұрын

@@almilligan7317 who denied the atonement? I certainly didn't hear that in this!

@almilligan7317

8 ай бұрын

@@deirdrehbrt Richard Rohr, Cynthia Bourgeault, Thomas Keating, and the contemplative movement deny the atonement; that Jesus death and resurrection are the sine qua non for salvation. Jesus for them shows us a way, but not the only way. He is a Christ but not the only Christ. Jesus and the Christ are different.

@deirdrehbrt

8 ай бұрын

@@almilligan7317 it's funny really. There isn't a single Christian denomination on Earth that isn't considered heretical by at least one other Christian denomination. And it's all because of doctrinal purity and who considered what to be essential. When Christ and the apostles walked the Earth, there was no Bible. Of course the books that compromise what we call the Old testament existed and many were familiar with the writings. But the interesting one is Paul who never heard Christ preach. And Paul's message was arguably rather different that the Gospel writers. In short, the message wasn't identical between them. I find it interesting that so many Christians place a great deal more emphasis on Paul's writings than on those of Christ himself. But that's beside the point. As for me, I'm a Christian and a Quaker. And getting into an argument is something I'm loathe to do. As a Quaker, I obviously believe that God still speaks to those who are willing to listen today. I don't believe that anyone is shut off from God's mercy or that copies of the Bible are necessary for someone to hear what God has to say. If every Bible disappeared, God would still speak to our hearts. I think we lean to far towards pharisaical attitudes when we place more emphasis on dogmatic purity than we do on where people's hearts are. But then again, I'm just a Quaker who thinks God still speaks to us