How should I meditate about god?
Apr.23, 2007 in
Meditation questions
Charles M asked:
I am a christian.I was questioning god, until i had a conversation with one of my friends who happens to be a muslim. He said i should try and meditate once a day. When should i meditate, how should i mediate, why should i meditate, and has anyone had any positive experiences with meditating. Please answer.
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I am a christian.I was questioning god, until i had a conversation with one of my friends who happens to be a muslim. He said i should try and meditate once a day. When should i meditate, how should i mediate, why should i meditate, and has anyone had any positive experiences with meditating. Please answer.
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April 25th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
How about a constant meditation by being mindful in each NOW moment?
April 28th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Learn and contemplate truths.
“That God is one, and that there is a conjunction of charity and faith” (Soul and Body n. 20).
Also, “This only One and very Self is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. This also every Christian acknowledges from his doctrine and every gentile from his religion. In consequence, wherever he is, a man thinks that God is there and that he prays to God at hand; thinking and praying so, men cannot but think that God is everywhere, that is, omnipresent [in all places at all times]; likewise omniscient [all knowing] and omnipotent [all powerful]. Everyone praying to God, therefore, implores Him from the heart to lead him because He can lead him; thus he acknowledges the divine omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence, doing so in turning his face to the Lord; thereupon the truth flows in from the Lord” (Divine Providence n. 157).
Also, “There are three essentials of the church: acknowledgment of the divine of the Lord, acknowledgment of the holiness of the Word [Bible], and the life which is called charity” (Divine Providence n. 259[3]).
Also, “Every man [or woman] can be saved, and those are saved who acknowledge God and live rightly” (Divine Providence n. 325).
April 30th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
meditate in the Word ….
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Read the bible ……especially…
” I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life; no man can come to the Father except through me”. — Jesus Christ (Jn. 14:6)
” Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved”. (Acts 4:12
May 5th, 2007 at 1:39 am
meditation is satanic, in Christianity its called prayer…
May 6th, 2007 at 4:08 am
I try to spend several minutes a day meditating after I read the Bible. I think of all the meanings that passage could hold and how I can relate them to my life. It is useful in gaining further understanding of what I read.
May 9th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Jesus speaks to our neighbor, Mr. Gibby; and he meditates as he listens.
Later he takes off his pants and dances in his back yard, arousing my wife, who stands transfixed at the kitchen window.
May 11th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
When your mind is quiet, it makes it easier for you to hear the divine voice.
May 12th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Why does one need the Bible for meditation? When you meditate, you are simply freeing yourselves of all human senses, or that’s what you are supposed to be doing. The buddhists really have this down. Simply reading a passage from the bible and thinking about is not meditation. One is supposed to free their minds of all thought. Relax and free the senses, letting go of all emotion, and living in the present, the Now. Focusing only on what is occuring simultaneously with you. Focusing on the existence of everything as one. Thus, everything is united in that existence. Bonded by that now.
May 15th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
The Prayer of Quiet is regarded by all writers on mystical theology as one of the degrees of contemplation. It has to be distinguished therefore from meditation and from affective prayer. It holds an intermediary place between the latter and the prayer of union. As the name implies the prayer of quiet is that in which the soul experiences an extraordinary peace and rest, accompanied by delight or pleasure in contemplating God as present. In this prayer God gives to the soul an intellectual knowledge of His presence, and makes it feel that it is really in communication with Him, although He does this in a somewhat obscure manner. The manifestation increases in distinctness, as the union with God becomes of a higher order. This mystic gift cannot be acquired, because it is supernatural. It is God Himself who makes His presence felt in the inmost soul. The certain sight of God therein obtained is not the same as the light of faith, though it is founded upon faith. The gift of wisdom is especially employed in this degree, as it is in every degree of contemplation. According to Scaramelli the office of this gift, at least to a certain extent, is to render God present to the soul and so much the more present as the gift is more abundant. Some authors say that this is not to be understood of the ordinary gift of wisdom which is necessarily connected with sanctifying grace and is possessed by every just man, but of wisdom as one of the charismata or extraordinary graces of the Holy Ghost, specially granted to privileged souls.
At first the prayer of quiet is given from time to time only and then merely for a few minutes.
It takes place when the soul has already arrived at the prayer of recollection and silence, or what some authors call the prayer of simplicity.
A degree of prayer is not a definite state excluding reversions to former states.
A time often comes when the prayer of quiet is not only very frequent but habitual. In this case it occurs not only at the time set for prayer, but every time that the thought of God presents itself.
Even then it is subject to interruptions and alterations of intensity, sometimes strong and sometimes weak.
The prayer of quiet does not entirely impede the exercise of the faculties of the soul. The will alone remains captive. The intellect and memory appear to have greater activity for the things of God in this state, but not so much for worldly affairs. They may even escape the bounds of restraint and wander on strange and useless thoughts, and yet the will, attracted by the charm of the Divine presence, continues its delights, not wholly in a passive way, but capable of eliciting fervent affections and aspirations. As to the bodily senses St. Francis de Sales tells us that persons during the prayer of quiet can hear and remember things said near them; and, quoting St. Teresa, he observes that it is a type of superstition to be so jealous of our repose as to refrain from coughing, and almost from breathing for fear of losing it.
God who is the author of this peace will not deprive us of it for unavoidable bodily motions, or even for involuntary wanderings of the imagination. The spiritual fruits are:
interior peace which remains after the time of prayer,
profound humility,
aptitude and a disposition for spiritual duties,
a heavenly light in the intellect, and
stability of the will in goodness.
It is by such fruits true mystics may be discerned and distinguished from false mystics.
Peace and blessings!
May 16th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
To mediate is to think about something,
You can either pray in the traditional sense!
Or you can get out at night by yourself, then just up in the sky and talk to him like you would your best friend. I always fill that best rather than praying in the traditional sense.
May 19th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Christian meditation differs from e.g. Buddhist meditation in which is seems (?) the purpose is to empty the mind of thought.
Rather, the Christian meditates of the things studied in the scriptures. Thus Bible study / reading is a must for rewarding meditation to occur.
E.g. an easy (?) example is the problem of whether Christians need works to be saved.
Most proponents of non-works quote Eph 2:8, 9
Let’s read it:
8For ye are saved by grace through faith, and this a gift of God, not from you, 9not from works, so that not any man may boast. (ASV)
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It says clearly that we are saved by grace through faith and NOT FROM WORKS.
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But wait ! Ephesians 2:10 says, “10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works”
We were created FOR GOOD WORKS
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That is confusing? So we need more!
If we are truly Bible students then we are familiar with Paul’s frequent statements of the following sort:
Gal 2:16 knowing as we do that a man is declared righteous, not due to works of law but only through faith toward Christ Jesus, that we may be declared righteous due to faith toward Christ and not due to works of law, because due to works of law no flesh will be declared righteous. 3: 10 For all those who depend upon works of law are under a curse; for it is written: