Meditation and Prayer Zen
By Roditch
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Throughout history, meditators have been both influential and mysterious. To look at some of the great meditators, see their works and know them more deeply helps when meditating your way to a fuller and richer life. This small book is about being a meditator not how to meditate.
Roditch
I am a retired Photography Teacher, Refugee Settlement Manager, and Builder. For the past 10 years, I have been teaching part-time, writing books, taking photos and doing lots of research.All the books I write come from experience and research. Yes, in my life so far I have worked with refugees, taught art, built houses, studied herbs, and health. I have also studied astrology spirituality including meditation, animal welfare, and poetry.I sincerely hope that you can gain valuable information from my books (usually short and sweet introductions) to different facets of life I have visited.
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Meditation and Prayer Zen - Roditch
Meditation and Prayer
ZEN
By Roditch
www.roditch.wordpress.com
Copyright
copyright © Roditch 2019
all rights reserved
hamnasheeda@gmail.com
Contents
Introduction
Prayer
Buddhism
Meditation
10 Commandments
5 Precepts
Heaven and Hell
God
Sun and Moon
Thich Nhat Hahn
Thomas Merton
Compassion
Temples and Churches
Prosperity Consciousness
Summary
Introduction
Meditation and prayer belong to two different spiritual families but I think they are related. Ten years ago I overheard a Christian minister telling a young Kenyan girl that she must never put her hands together like she is meditating, even for fun. I was flummoxed to see first hand how a man, just a man, could so happily control someone: his parishioner. So many rules, it’s impossible to see our way.
This is not a book on how to meditate but how to be a meditator and looks at Christianity and Buddhism: Topics that have confused me more than not and how they both have prayer and meditation underpinning their power to transform people’s lives: if the people do it.
They both have a lot in common because all religions and spiritual practices come from the same place: finding, feeling and knowing our soul (which is always in communion with divinity) and which is the gatekeeper to all knowledge and truth. There is incredible joy and happiness when we connect with our soul. We feel the beauty and love it feels, and it transforms our view of ourselves and the world: opens our eyes to the dimensions of nature and opens our hearts to the dimensions of relationships.
I think spiritual life is essential if we want to be more than eaters, shoppers, sexers and talkers. As we gradually submerge our mind into the sea of eternal life we empower our soul to manage our earthly selves in a more loving, meaningful and joyful way. When this happens we are beyond religion. Christianity and Buddhism are so similar in the ways that count. They both promote the development of the soul and once developed, helping others to do the same. Secondly, they both want us to pray and meditate which to me are much the same thing. They both are techniques that encourage us to connect with the soul, commune with spirit, and know thyself. I often think when people say God is talking and guiding me they mean their soul is. I believe there is no distinction between the soul and God as they are one.
Carl Jung, a psychologist, discovered the collective unconscious when doing daily therapy with his clients. Knowing this changed my idea of God forever. Instead of an old man sitting on a cloud throwing thunderbolts, God became the collective; the sum total of all souls became God and God became the sum total of all souls.
I own a bible, the Bagadavita, and books about Buddha.