"Meditation is a process of purifying the mind and making it one-pointed, inward and tranquil. Through the method of meditation, the mind will help you to fathom the deeper levels of your being and lead you to the highest state of realization."

Meditation begins with a call.......

 “Meditation begins with a call that awakens us out of the coma of self-preoccupation. We are called, we are chosen. Meditation is our response to that call from the deepest center of our awakened consciousness…by letting go in meditation we learn how to love.” John Main OSB

Christian Meditation

How about some Christian Mantra Meditation?

Here are some tips from Laurence Freeman a Benedictine monk. The app he mentions is WCCM app 2 for the iphone.



Here's the link if it doesn't appear in the posting.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=67gWpBAgK0U

Every meditation is a setting out

We are always beginning. Every time we sit down to meditate we begin again. Every meditation is a setting out and because it is always a new setting out it remains fresh, always a further entry into the mystery which is infinite and inexhaustible.

John Main

Freedom in Meditation

Henri Nouwen writes of a priest who told him that he cancelled his subscription to the New York Times because he felt that the endless stories about war, crime, power games and political manipulation only disturbed his mind and prevented him from meditation and prayer. "That is a sad story," writes Nouwen. "A real spiritual life does exactly the opposite: it makes us so alert and aware of the world around us, that all that is and happens becomes part of our contemplation and meditation and invites us to a free and fearless response."

Meditation- The Roots

Did you know that meditation in Sanskrit is Dhyana, in Chinese is Chan & Japanese is Zen?

All the same word just a different pronunciation.