--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [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/
