How Meditation Regulates Our Feelings So That We Might Hope
Our tradition tells us that meditation purifies the heart of these dragons, lions, and poisonous beats: this fear, anxiety, anger, grief, and the hopelessness that can result.
Tag: Christian Spirituality
Yindyamarra (Part 4): The Arrival of Ego-Dominance
Many see the soulful way of Australia’s First Nations peoples as a prophetic call to the rest of us to live our own lives more soulfully and less egoically. This is also the call at the heart of Christianity.
Beholding Divine Beauty: And God Saw That It was Very Good (Part 2)
We have co-created not as God creates. Collectively, we still see and act too much as if ego is our original nature. It is not. It is, ultimately, a self-centred distortion of Reality.
Meditation and Reverence for Creation (Part 2)
What is happening now, in this day and age, is a consequence and a reminder that the practice of leaving self behind has not been practiced by enough people. Its value has been lost.
Benedict, Mary, Meditation, and the Marginal (Part 2)
While Mary’s primary response was to seek the marginalised, Benedict’s was to receive them. Of course, after the seeking there was care and support, so too, after the receiving. In both this seeking and receiving, the marginalised of Benedict’s and Mary’s time were supported.