Posted on 07/25/2020 7:11:35 PM PDT by rebuildus
Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School™, explains in a simple fashion how meditation actually works--that there is a REASON for each component, and how essential it is that we find a counterbalance to the mind-control techniques of mass media that pull us further and further away from the center of our common sense.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...
It’s easier to just stop sending money to the cable companies. And the money stays with you instead of funding the people that want you dead.
Embrace personal pronouns
A good App - Insight Timer (free)
A good book - The Power of Now by Tolle
What many people today call ‘meditation’ used to simply be called ‘Prayer’
Brother Lawrence, the 17th Century friar, called it ‘Practicing the Presence of God’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_the_Presence_of_God
There used to be a very small, short website offered by an individual who had taken the ideas of Brother Lawrence seriously, and had very interesting experiences as a result. I haven’t been able to find that site recently - I guess it’s been taken down. But I think I printed it out years ago. I’ll look for it, and post it if I can find it.
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“Conversation with God occurs in the depth and center of the soul...”
- Donald Attwater, Translator
Meditation has been around a lot longer than Christianity.
Mark
God has been around a lot longer then anyone or anything. *;)
It’s all about self control. First the mind
Agreed. I only posted my post as a retort.
And peoples’ ways of finding Him, too.
Exactly, Truthoverpower
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