Born to Believe by Andrew Newberg & Mark Robert Waldman

Author:Andrew Newberg & Mark Robert Waldman [Newberg, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2007-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

It brings us into the presence of God and thus fosters the contemplative attitudes of listening and receptivity. It is not contemplation in the strict sense, which in Catholic tradition has always been regarded as a pure gift of the Spirit, but rather it is a preparation for contemplation by reducing the obstacles caused by the hyperactivity of our minds and of our lives.7

For our purposes, this meditation was ideal because it was similar to the technique used by the Buddhist practitioners. The Buddhists focus on a sacred image, the nuns focus on a sacred prayer, and both evoke a sense of connectedness with a different level of reality. The nuns described their experience as being in the living presence of God; the Buddhists described theirs as entering a state of absolute awareness of the universe.

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