Actually, Trappist monks in the early 1970’s visited TM looking closely for spiritual technique outside what they saw as their own confine of practice within the Church, seeking spiritual experience which the Church evidently did not have, the monks came then to learn ™ as a spiritual practice.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Interesting though to note the Church in this document carefully carves out space for Centering Prayer taken from TM in reformation spirituality movement within their progressive ranks. Excerpt in the last paragraphs of the document.. “Many people are convinced that there is no harm in 'borrowing' from the wisdom of the East, but the example of Transcendental Meditation (TM) should make Christians cautious about the prospect of committing themselves unknowingly to another religion (in this case, Hinduism), despite what TM's promoters claim about its religious neutrality. There is no problem with learning how to meditate, but the object or content of the exercise clearly determines whether it relates to the God revealed by Jesus Christ, to some other revelation, or simply to the hidden depths of the self.” eustace10679 posts: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Not New Age? TM at Vatican Conference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCQJl1XVmg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCQJl1XVmg “..I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.” -Denis Diderot ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Thanks for posting this. It is a remarkable document. Very mental. The mind certainly can come up with all kinds of rationalizations, excuses and perspectives to perpetuate itself. Their defending market share by both defining the enemy and castigating seems a strategy of sorts of like ™ pro-actively tries to frame Buddhism in a place. This patriarchal bottom line in their castigating contends if it don’t have Christ in it then the spirituality is no good. Nicene Creed. Let the inquisition begin. And what does Catholicism have to offer? Tell us. Tell us of our friends who live damaged by Catholicism.
