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John Main (1926-1982), an English Benedictine monk, pioneered the
practice of Christian meditation. His genius was to recover a way
into the contemplative experience for ordinary people within the
Christian tradition. Hailed by Bede Griffiths as the "most
important spiritual guide in the church today, " Main's work
inspired the foundation of the World Community for Christian
Meditation and a network of hundreds of meditation groups around
the world.
John Main introduces the practice of Christian meditation for
modern people who wish to deepen their spiritual lives.
John Main understood that the remedy for the malaise that affects
individuals and nations alike was the love of Christ. He taught
that when we build our lives on the rock-like foundation of this
love, we become rooted in the ultimate reality, and the winds and
storms of life, and even death itself, no longer have power over
us. In the short chapters of this book, he shows how we can find
the way to this foundation and root ourselves in the eternal love
that nothing can destroy. The way is simplicity itself, but it is
also a way of dispossession. Daily meditation brings us to the
place where our lives become wholly immersed in the Spirit of God,
but it requires that we come empty handed and prepared to walk the
way of unknowing.
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The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
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printed for Bell and Bradfute, J. Dickson, and W. Creech, 1797.
<collation>xvi,412p.; 8
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1913. Contents: widow asceticism; haunted widow; immolated and
suicidal widow; woman as funeral and memorial tribute; widow
service; in court circles; widow-priestess; taboo on widow
marriage; blood sacrifice of women for divine service; on amorous
gods; wife-priestess; priestess wives; vowed offspring; chastity in
sympathetic magic; magical virtue of chastity; occasional religious
continence; chastity in Gainism and Buddhism; chastity in
Christianity; review; bibliography.
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1913. Contents: widow asceticism; haunted widow; immolated and
suicidal widow; woman as funeral and memorial tribute; widow
service; in court circles; widow-priestess; taboo on widow
marriage; blood sacrifice of women for divine service; on amorous
gods; wife-priestess; priestess wives; vowed offspring; chastity in
sympathetic magic; magical virtue of chastity; occasional religious
continence; chastity in Gainism and Buddhism; chastity in
Christianity; review; bibliography.
In this, the last book he wrote before his death, the spiritual
writer John Main characteristically turns to the source and focus
of all his inspirational teaching about prayer - the presence of
Christ. He writes, 'Learning to meditate is the most practical
thing in the world. You require only one quality when you begin.
That is seriously to want to learn - The central message of the New
Testament is that there is really only one prayer and that this
prayer is the prayer of Christ. It is a prayer that continues in
our heart day and night'. A striking feature of the book is its
emphasis on simplicity and moving beyond 'techniques' of prayer.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
We take it for granted that aspects of monastic life can sustain
our daily lives in the world, but we owe this understanding to John
Main, a Benedictine monk who pioneered the idea that the desert
tradition of meditative or contemplative prayer, which had largely
been forgotten in the West, was for all Christians. At his
monastery in London, he started teaching this way of prayer to lay
groups and a network of meditation groups came into being, quickly
spreading throughout the world and renewing a sense of the Church
as a fellowship rooted in prayer and contemplative action.
Bestselling books soon grew out of his talks. This simple,
practical guide to 'pure prayer' teaches that by ceasing to
struggle to find words and images by which we all too easily try to
control God, we give God freedom to be himself in our hearts and we
begin to pray with 'the mind of Christ', as St Paul teaches. In a
nervous world saturated with image and endless self-commentary,
this is a nourishing, life-giving stream of hope and refreshment.
Contents: widow asceticism; haunted widow; immolated and suicidal
widow; woman as funeral and memorial tribute; widow service; in
court circles; widow-priestess; taboo on widow marriage; blood
sacrifice of women for divine service; on amorous gods;
wife-priestess; priestess wives; vowed offspring; chastity in
sympathetic magic; magical virtue of chastity; occasional religious
continence; chastity in Gainism and Buddhism; chastity in
Christianity; review; bibliography.
Learning to meditate is the most practical thing in the world. You
require only one quality when you begin. That is seriously to want
to learn to mediate.The central message of the New Testament is
that there is really only one prayer and that this prayer is the
prayer of Christ. It is a prayer that continues in our heart day
and night. John Main describes this prayer as the stream of love
that flows constantly between Jesus and his Father. This stream of
love is the Holy SpiritIt is John Main's conviction that is it the
most important task for any fully human life that we should become
as open as possible to this stream of love. In order for us to do
this we must learn a way that is a way of silence - of stillness -
and this by a discipline that is most demanding.John Main talks
about the many aspects of silent prayer: the way of the mantra,
leaving distraction behind, fullness of life in love and silence. A
striking feature of the book is its emphasis on simplicity, on
transcending self-consciousness and moving beyond techniques of
prayer.
Many thousands of people across the world have found their
spiritual lives enriches by the daily practice of Christian
meditation, the method of silent prayer taught by Benedictine monk
John Main. It is a tradition which draws on the ancient wisdom of
the Bible, the Hindu Upanishads and the early Christian Desert
Fathers.John Main wrote several books on contemplative prayer
before he died in 1982, but this collection is the only one to draw
the essence of all his teachings into one volume. Paul Harris has
devotedly selected the essential extracts from each of John Main's
works and arranged them here in an attractive and practical daily
readings format.>
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