Christian Meditation

Christian Meditation

Course instructor : Nunnelley

Course No : LS 242-001

Student 's name : Elizabeth

Christian Meditation

Introduction

The Christian vision of life is its vision of unity , whereby all mankind has been unified in the One , who is in union with the father . All matters are drawn into the cosmic movement towards unity that will be the realization of the divine harmony . The essence of Christian meditation practiced since ages based not on abstract vision but on something which can be experienced in the form of deep personal joy and

br reaffirmation of value of each person . Meditation unites us with the father and help us realize fully who we are

This controlling vision has steered the Christian tradition for centuries . Christian meditation thus basically is to personally experience the divine cosmic harmony , and to see it for ourselves or through the eyes of our lord . The purpose of meditation is to go beyond all dualism , and to maintain the balance of the Christian perspective (Main , 2006 ,

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The connection between meditation and Christian prayer goes back at least to the fourth century A .D . and the first Christian monks . These monks later became known as the desert fathers ' because these monks went to the remote regions of Egyptian deserts to devote their lives to uninterrupted meditating on Jesus . Their teachings have influenced the Orthodox branch of Christianity (Davich , 1998 ,

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Christian meditation contrasts with cosmic meditation ' as radically as the living God of the Bible contrasts with sensual Krishna of Indian mythology . Three dimensions of Christian meditation are crucial for guiding its practice . Firstly , Christian meditation is grounded in the truth of God , a personal God , who speaks in word of revelation and Christian meditation , should respond to the revelation of the Lord Secondly , it responds to the love of God and thirdly , it is an exercise of praise to the Lord (Clowney , 1979 ,

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Christian meditation is contemplative . This contemplative meditation requires a degree of intellectual restraint . Discursive thought about it has to be suspended in to see the object clearly . Mind need to be bereft of thought and is to be centered at the present and to reach out to the object , rather than becoming absorbed in our own reaction . This involves affection and reverence to the object of meditation , and not aesthetic perception of it (Williams and Watts , 2007 ,

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The first step of meditation is to be completely aware of oneself and to apprehend for a moment that we are created by God and thereby to sense something of our own potentiality . While sitting for meditation , we need to first comprehend the Christian vision that God is not only the supreme creator who creates us , but also our loving father . After comprehending this truth , meditation can be started (Main , 2006 ,

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Christian meditation takes the yoke of Christ and learns of him as the suffering servant and triumphant lord . In every way Christian meditation is in submission to Jesus Christ . No...