Centering Prayer

"Centering Prayer is more akin to the very ancient practice of hesychasm as understood in the Eastern Orthodox Church, in which the participant seeks the presence of God directly (aided by the Jesus Prayer, perhaps) and explicitly rejects discursive thoughts and imagined scenes. (The height of hesychast prayer is spoken of as the vision of the "uncreated light," but this very rare experience is understood as a gift of God, and must not be sought or imagined.)"...Centering Prayer (Wikipedia)

• Centering prayer (Wikipedia)
• "The Centering Prayer can be very closely compared to Buddhist Concentration or Insight meditation practice. Thomas Keating, a contemporary teacher of this ancient practice, and a Roman Catholic Priest based in Snowmass, Colorado, teaches that “we should not try to stop our thoughts during practice. Develop a detached attitude. In the ancient Christian desert tradition anything that can hook us: thoughts, feelings, visions, sensations, are to be let go.” This is precisely the technique of Buddhist Insight meditation."...Christian Meditation...by Brian Ruhe
• Kyrie Centering Prayer Index
• Guidelines for Centering Prayer (Wikipedia)
• Jesus Prayer (Wikipedia)
• Key Players in Centering Prayer
• THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING (TEAMS MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS SERIES)
• Centering prayer sites (Open Directory Project)

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