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1 day ago · Contemplation is a practice of making your mind slow down. You slow down and really dwell. And I think dwelling is really central to what contemplation is about: you’re dwelling in a particular moment or state of understanding or thought or feeling or whatever about the divine or about the relationship of the self to the divine.
2 days ago · Meditation is practiced in numerous religious traditions. The earliest records of meditation ( dhyana) are found in the Upanishads, and meditation plays a salient role in the contemplative repertoire of Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism. [5] Jainism uses the Twelve Contemplations, dharma dhyana (knowledge of the elements ), and shukla dhyana ...
5 days ago · "Buddhist Meditation and Contemplation" published on by Oxford University Press. Perhaps the most significant contribution of Buddhism to the international stage in recent years has been the promotion and cultural acceptance of meditation.
2 days ago · Story from Our Community: After 40 years “in and out” of AA, someone gave me Richard Rohr’s book, Breathing under Water.Maybe I was finally at a bottom, or maybe it was simply that Richard’s words finally filled the empty place inside of me with a wonderful new spirituality.
5 days ago · Today, we recall the memory of St. Scholastica, the twin sister of St. Benedict, founder of western monasticism. Scholastica was born in Nursia (Italy), in the year 480. She was a nun who also founded a community for women near Monte Cassino. Like Mary, she chose contemplation.
6 hours ago · As contemplation progresses, the cognitive faculties are drawn into contemplation in a hierarchical order: for prophets, in the mode of bodily, imaginative and intellectual vision given as revelation; for other righteous men, contemplation as speculation proceeds by stages of perception, imagination, reason, intellect and understanding, to wisdom, which is the ecstatic knowledge (notitia excessiva) beginning in earthly life and fulfilled in eternal glory.13 Bonaventure uses the biblical ...
2 days ago · The luma, beyond its existence as a biological entity, serves as a locus of intertwined cultural, social, and ecological meanings.From a phenomenological and semiotic perspective, the tree becomes a node in a vast network of human and natural relationships, where its symbolic and material presence feeds a web of narratives, rituals, and cosmovisions.
