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Spiritual dispassion is a state of the soul where the heart's will sabbath rests, no longer perturbed by the flesh's appetites nor disturbed by desire. The heart's will at rest, the mind or reason no longer labors to satisfy the heart's desires. The mind's attention no longer moves from this to that, chasing after this or that. The spirit maintains a broad heightened awareness. All in the soul, heart, intellect, spirit, are at peace.

In 2 Corinthians 10:5, Paul uses both words for thought, logismos and noema, overthrowing the former and taking the latter captive in our minds, but not in the fleshly sense of dominating. Don't fight fire with fire or add fuel to the fire, else get burned. He mentioned we don't fight the flesh with the flesh, or wage war according to the flesh nor with worldly weapons, but with divine power to overthrow logismos and to take captive noema which set themselves up against the knowledge or gnosis of God. It's as if logismos is thought from the imagination or mere opinion, and noema is thought from perception. Our thoughts come from what we perceive or from our memory of what we had perceived. We make opinions of what we perceive. Our opinions are often inaccurate or wrong. We too often presume they are true. We accept past opinions without scrutinizing them. We go along with them. We believe them. We give our consent to do as they say. We go with the flow. We jump on the train of thoughts and off we go, our attention being taken captive by them. When we are heightenedly aware of our thoughts, imaginations, and opinions, and when we are heightenedly aware of God's presence, we can take them captive and overthrow them. We can nip them in the bud early as they are forming. If we wait until they grow and are reinforced, they are more difficult to stop. As an illustration, if a bud is forming on a fruit tree, it's easily snipped with the fingers to prevent an unwanted sucker branch from forming. In contrast, a fully fledged unwanted branch needs to be cut with a clippers or saw. As another illustration, it is easier to dam the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota where the water is shallow and is easily stepped across than it is damming it at New Orleans where the water is deep and the current flow is strong. Jesus said that sin like murder begins in the heart and comes out of the heart as anger. It's better to stop the anger there than after it grows into murderous rage. We can overthrow thoughts and take them captive right at their source if we maintain awareness there at the heart.

Undistracted in quiet inner stillness during hesychastic prayer, the intellect becomes heightenly aware of the soul's inner workings. It 'guards' the heart or inner most aspect of the soul from the appetites from the flesh and the passions of the flesh. Stillness in the heart is sabbath rest in the soul. The heart is no longer driven to labor. Hesychastic prayer is sabbath prayer. The heightened awareness of the soul is the nous or spirit of the soul. Paul mentioned it is the spirit of the man that knows the inner man, and it is the Spirit of God who knows God. The soul is made in the image and likeness of God. The soul has its heart or core which treasures and wills. The soul has its reason or logos which discerns to carry out the will of the heart. The soul has its awareness, in particular its self awareness, which the reason uses to know as it further differentiates what is being observed. This tripartate soul unfortunately is fallen or ill, so it isn't always in unity. It isn't purely triune like God. The Father is the heart of the Trinity. He wills. From him is begotten his Logos to carry out his will in creating all that is in the universe apart from him. From the Father also proceeds his Awareness or Spirit. In the beginning, the Spirit of God hovered over the void of creation. Then the Word spoke creation into being as he differentiated one yhing from another. The Father's Spirit is omnipresent. His Logos is omniscient. The Father is omnipotent. The Three have one will in unison. They are in complete unity. 'Let us make man in our own image and likeness'. Unlike the fallen soul, they are triune, not tripartate or apart from one another. In hesychastic prayer or contemplation in the heart, the God heals the soul to become triune. Not only can the soul be in union with itself, but it can come into union with God, ie, communion. Divine union is theosis. The reason or logos of the soul comes under the discipleship of the Logos. The awareness or spirit of the soul can be heightened or illuminated by the Spirit. The healed heart of the soul can rest in the bosom or heart of the Father.

Sober, rational sound mindedness is the guide for the heart which gets influenced by the flesh's appetites. It prevents desire from turning into passions of the flesh which delude the heart. The heart is the core of the soul. It treasures. Jesus said that where your treasure lies, there you will find your heart. The heart wills. The will can be appetite based or rational based. Often the fallen heart inordinately treasures or desires the wrong things which moths and rust corrupt instead of treasuring heavenly things. It needs the intellect or well informed conscience to determine what treasures or desires are good vs bad, right vs wrong. Then the heart can will what is best, no longer being subject to illusionary passions which delude.

Inordinate emotions which are inappropriate or exaggerated or disproportionate are bad. In general, well ordered, appropriate and proportionate emotions are good. The well ordered, appropriate, proportionate 'anger' spoken here is a zeal or determination to overcome obstacles in the way when doing good. It's like when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Too little zeal is luke-warmness lacking fortitude or courage. Too much is a domineering anger or rage. Virtue is the mean between the extremes.

Hesychasm must be practiced Christocentricly, otherwise it is another meditation technique.

I've been practicing or trying to practice this quiet contemplation or inner stillness for years. I read the Philokalia 20 years ago, but then I thought it was just a collection of pious sayings. I gave away the 4 volumes I had. Now I wish I had kept them. When in contemplation I see the make up of the soul and its inner dynamic occurring there. The Scriptures attest to it. They both give insight into the soul. They reinforce each other giving insight into each other. Hesychasm/contemplation goes as far back as the Genesis stories. Likewise the Gospels speak of the soul, its ills, and its healing remedy. It is definitely earlier than Byzantium times.

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This has to be the hardest pill that I have ever heard. Bless the Lord!

St Hesychios the Priest, Holy Saint of God, pray for us always!

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Through the prayer of St. Neilos the Ascetic, Lord Jesus Christ grant us holy simplicity.

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St. John Cassian, pray for us sinners!

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Thank you for sharing these brother. I wonder if you could name these videos parts 1, 2 and 3 🙏🏽☦

Where do i start following the readings?

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