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The World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) - Hong Kong
Meditatio Talk Series 2007D
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Fr. Thomas Keating OCSO 多瑪斯基廷神父
(嚴規熙篤會)
人類狀況的治愈
多瑪斯基廷是科羅拉多州斯諾馬斯山聖本篤隱修院的一位熙篤會隱修士。他是歸心祈禱和默觀外展運動的創始人之一。他也積極參加宗教交流。他著有許多書籍，其中包括《開放的思維，開放的心》(Open Mind Open Heart) 和《彰顯天主》 (Manifesting God)。在這些講座中，基廷神父顯示出操練默觀祈禱如何幫助了人類狀況的治愈。此CD選段摘自基廷神父於2001年聖週期間在新加坡的講座。全套5張CD可從 WCCM Int'l Medio Media 獲得。
2022 Lent Reflection - Easter Sunday
More than any other part of the gospel the passage that describes some of the disciples in the community that Jesus formed visiting his...
2022 Lent Reflection - Holy Saturday
Crux est mundi medicina: the cross is the medicine of the world. The lion roars in an empty tree. St Bonaventure and the Buddhist koan...
2022 Lent Reflection - Good Friday
Christian thinkers have long linked the Eucharist with the Cross – Holy Thursday, when we celebrate the Last Supper, with Good Friday...
2022 Lent Reflection - Holy Thursday
Today we begin the Triduum, the three-day kernel of the Easter mystery. Each day has a unique symbolic celebration. Today the Eucharist...
2022 Lent Reflection - Wednesday Holy Week
Often the Cross used to be explained as the sacrifice that paid back to God for the insult of the sin of Adam, original sin. Left...
2022 Lent Reflection - Tuesday Holy Week
Does this week feel holy to you yet? If not, why? Our journey through these days should first focus on accepting full responsibility for...
2022 Lent Reflection - Monday Holy Week
A centurion standing by the Cross heard the last words of Jesus committing his spirit into his Father’s hands and breathing his last. The...
2022 Lent Reflection - Palm Sunday
He has offered one single sacrifice for sins (Heb 10) As we read the Passion Narrative in today’s gospel we do a helicopter view of the...
2022 Lent Reflection - Saturday Lent Week 5
In the myth of the Fisher King the young knight-in-training, Parsifal, is told that good knights should speak little and only ask...
2022 Lent Reflection - Friday Lent Week 5
When we feel we are in a real and present danger life is suddenly simplified. A man I know was once plunged into this when a dentist...
2022 Lent Reflection - Thursday Lent Week 5
In the late afternoon on Sunday after the Italian National Conference I was walking through Rome. A golden light bathed everyone,...
2022 Lent Reflection - Wednesday Lent Week 5
Do you remember the days when you read maps to get to where you were going? Everyone in London had an ‘AtoZ of London’ with every small...
2022 Lent Reflection - Tuesday Lent Week 5
An ongoing discussion among New Testament scholars concerns the translation of the Greek phrase ‘pistis Christou’ in a number of passages...
2022 Lent Reflection - Monday Lent Week 5
Yesterday I ended by saying that raising the level of human consciousness is a common responsibility both of all the wisdom traditions...
2022 Lent Reflection - Fifth Sunday of Lent
The daily news from Ukraine during this Lent has highlighted the role of military and diplomatic ‘intelligence’ about how the war is...
2022 Lent Reflection - Saturday Lent Week 4
My reflection yesterday was about mental health and ended with a reference to austerity. Ramana had said ‘the sparkling of truth devoid...
2022 Lent Reflection - Friday Lent Week 4
The sparkling of truth devoid of I is the greatest austerity News of the peace talks in Turkey between Russians and Ukrainians are top of...
2022 Lent Reflection - Thursday Lent Week 4
Jesus disturbs us by saying the rich cannot enter the kingdom. Ramana Maharshi says the same - and similarly disturbs our sense of values...
2022 Lent Reflection - Wednesday Lent Week 4
When Jesus told his disciples that it was as harder for a rich person to enter the kingdom than for a camel to pass through the eye...
2022 Lent Reflection - Tuesday Lent Week 4
Know that the pure and changeless self-awareness in the heart is the knowledge that, through the destruction of the ego, bestows...
2022 Lent Reflection - Monday Lent Week 4
There was a man who felt constantly overwhelmed by the ‘ten thousand things’ that Lao Tse said – and all meditators know – rush round the...
2022 Lent Reflection - Fourth Sunday of Lent
But it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found....
2022 Lent Reflection - Saturday Lent Week 3
Francis Bacon, one of the founders of modern science, said that ‘experience is the best proof’. But what is experience? If I have some...
2022 Lent Reflection - Friday Lent Week 3
Tomorrow global meditators will be joining our Ukrainian community on their day of retreat. You are warmly invited to show our solidarity...
2022 Lent Reflection - Thursday Lent 3
I went to get my eyes tested recently and was given a new prescription. I waited for my new glasses to arrive and was then surprised to...
2022 Lent Reflection - Wednesday Lent 3
I have a very nice wool-knit sweater that I have had for years and become very fond of. It fits well and is warm but not too heavy. I...
2022 Lent Reflection - Tuesday Lent Week 3
Many people who rejected their early Christian conditioning feel a combination of freedom and homelessness. If we have a home to...
2022 Lent Reflection - Monday Lent Week 3
Russian-speaking Ukrainians who have a database of telephone numbers in Russia are calling them randomly to speak with whoever answers...
2022 Lent Reflection - Third Sunday of Lent
It may bear next year. If not you can cut it down. (Lk 13:1-9) Recently I was listening to an inspiring woman speak about power and...
2022 Lent Reflection - Saturday Lent 2
An obvious truth that applies equally to personal and political patterns of behaviour: unless we learn from the mistakes of the past, we...
2022 Lent Reflection - Friday Lent 2
Meditation corresponds nicely to the nature of life as a journey on which we never totally pause. There are many highs and lows, periods...
2022 Lent Reflection - Thursday Lent 2
We usually think of the first aim of justice as a process of identifying and punishing the guilty. But what if this were the outcome of...
2022 Lent Reflection - Wednesday Lent Week 2
The story of the Exodus, the escape of the Hebrews from enslavement in Egypt, their forty years wandering in the desert and their...
2022 Lent Reflection - Tuesday Lent 2
How can you change someone’s mind? It’s usually not worth the effort and will make you only more frustrated and angry. If it does succeed...
2022 Lent Reflection - Monday Lent Week 2
If there is one thing this particular Lent should be doing it is to check the condition of our heart. We have enough stress tests...
2022 Lent Reflection - Second Sunday of Lent
As he prayed, the aspect of his face was changed and his clothing became brilliant as lightning. (Lk 9:28) The feast of the...
2022 Lent Reflection - Saturday Lent Week 1
The long and deep process of forgiveness needs to start as soon as the harm is done. This is not a matter of will but of being prepared....
2022 Lent Reflection - Friday Lent Week 1
If the essential spiritual training of life (ascesis) is found in meditation, as John Main believed, why is this and how does it work?...
2022 Lent Reflection - Thursday Lent Week 1
Pope Francis recently called on people to fast for a day in solidarity with the suffering of Ukraine. To some it may have been a sign of...
2022 Lent Reflection - Wednesday Lent Week 1
“The truth is we are Christ.” What does this mean? What difference does it make? And how can we develop this insight? It challenges the...
2022 Lent Reflection - Tuesday Lent Week 1
And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven those who are in debt to us. (Mt 6:7-15) It will be hard for the Ukrainians or for the rest...
2022 Lent Reflection - Monday Lent Week 1
Fear. And how not to be afraid of it. Fear is a useful natural reaction to whatever threatens our survival or well-being or those we...
2022 Lent Reflection - First Sunday of Lent
He was hungry. Luke 4: 1-13 Jesus tempted in the desert This is the account of Jesus fasting in the desert for forty days in preparation...
2022 Lent Reflection - Saturday after Ash Wednesday
Jesus noticed a tax collector, Levi by name, sitting by the customs house, and said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And leaving everything he got up...
2022 Lent Reflection - Friday after Ash Wednesday
To get a more or less accurate blood-pressure reading one has to take an average from several taken at regular intervals over a few days....
2022 Lent Reflection - Thursday after Ash Wednesday
The fresh shine of anything new wears off quickly. The novelty of Lent doesn’t last long either, so we don’t have much time to decide...
2022 Lent Reflection - Ash Wednesday
Jesus noticed a tax collector, Levi by name, sitting by the customs house, and said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And leaving everything he got up...
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