Introduction to Christian Meditation

Wednesdays in February

7 pm

All Saints Chapel

Beginnning February 5. Fr. Rob will be leading exploration of meditation from a Christian perspective. Each session will begin with instruction, followed by an opportunity to practice meditation. No experience needed! The sessions will last about an hour.

Materials for this session are from WCCM (World Community for Christian Meditation).

From the WCCM website:

What is Meditation?

Meditation is a universal spiritual wisdom and a practice found at the core of all the great religious traditions. It leads the practitioner from mind to heart and to the integration of these two centres of human being. It is not an exoteric complicated or essentially difficult practice. It is a learning process most of which it is in fact unlearning of condition and imaginary responses to reality. 

It is a way of simplicity, silence and stillness. It can be practised by anyone who is merely serious about beginning.  Soon we learn that we are always beginners. This discovery transforms many interconnected attitudes such as our fear of failure, our craving for success and our reluctance to simply be ourselves. 

In the WCCM we teach meditation to children as young as five who understand better than we do what simplicity means. Often it is the young, those on the margins, those struggling with the problems of life who as best able to understand the true and simple wisdom of meditating. 

As John Main said, the most important thing is to begin and to keep on beginning.