On more careful reading, the three links below do concern the text mentioned in my first email, which contains the warning about degeneration into a cult of the body.
--- In [email protected], "at_man_and_brahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not referring to the same text, but to the > "cult of the body" remark of the time: > > http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDFMED.HTM > > http://www.apostle1.com/orthinfo/Transcendental%20Meditation1.htm > > http://www.skepticfiles.org/rumor/vaticanz.htm > > --- In [email protected], "at_man_and_brahman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDFMED.HTM > > > > This was written by Ratzinger and approved by > > JPII. > > > > Maharishi said that the Pope was a pious man and > > that this couldn't have been his work. > > > > I believe that this was the same occasion when > > Maharishi commented that 100 popes (maybe > > 1000) couldn't convince him that suffering was > > the way to God. > > > > --- In [email protected], johnlasher20002000 <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I wonder if they did was it in an encyclical which one & date of it? > > > etc. > > > > > > This is the document written by the present pope regarding meditation. > > > He does NOT condem TM and eastern forms of meditation but puts them in > > > a context of Christian prayer namely that the meditation prepares one > > > for Unity but that the final step is Grace, a concept similar to what > > > Maharishi has also said. Below are some of the relative excerpts. > > > > > > SOME ASPECTS OF CHRISTIAN MEDITATION > > > Issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on October > > > 15, 1989. > > > > > > 16. The majority of the "great religions" which have sought union with > > > God in prayer have also pointed out ways to achieve it. Just as "the > > > Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these > > > religions,"18 neither should these ways be rejected out of hand simply > > > because they are not Christian. On the contrary, one can take from > > > them what is useful so long as the Christian conception of prayer, its > > > logic and requirements are never obscured. > > > > > > 28. genuine practices of meditation which come from the Christian East > > > and from the great non-Christian religions, which prove attractive to > > > the man of today who is divided and disoriented, cannot constitute a > > > suitable means of helping the person who prays to come before God with > > > an interior peace, even in the midst of external pressures. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
