Meditation and Prayer complement each other so perfectly that each seems to be the natural continuation of the other: meditation alone is often reduced to the scope of consciousness techniques, technique of taming, familiarisation with consciousness processes.
I remember here that the Tibetan term referring to meditation translates as « familiarisation ».
Is this the spiritual life?
Once the consciousness is a familiar field, there is yet to kindle the heart, to approach the bush of fire.
Approached from the other end of the pipe, the point of peace is the same: once the heart is aflame, how to deploy the momentum beyond the field of feelings ?
Left to its own mechanisms, unguarded, knowing it, observing, maintaining it.
It is doomed to chaotic growth and smothers all vegetation.
It ends up blocking the horizon and makes possible the blaze of the world.
This reality is the same, regardless of the side of the conduit by which it is approached and each end is the solution of the other.
By joining them, the pipe becomes a circle of practice,
Prayer and meditation,
One practice.
Franck – August 2023
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It is not the traditional, concept of prayer of western religion. That is well.
As to the heart’s flame – that needs no ignition. Just to be set free of the ice and stone with which it is, so often, surrounded.
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How absolutely un-heretic of you to care about traditional concepts.
Maybe meditation and word-made prayers are all about setting the heart free from ‘ice and stone’ so that silent prayer can begin.
Hesychasm.
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I care to acknowledge the worth of avoiding tradition – like any good heretic who aspires to anarchy…!
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Be careful what you wish for.
A quick look at the news headlines lets me know you have a knack for prophecies.
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