I love this explanation. It confirms my understanding that we need to surrender in prayer with our heart wide open to receive the wisdom of Christ within it. We have this battle within, the false ego construct vs the true identity which is closes to our child self before the ego was formed. If we can calm the monkey mind long enough in prayer/meditation we can hear that inner voice guiding us. Ask, seek and find. The door will be opened.
He mentions Angela of Foligno, a 13th c. mystic, at 50:10. He says "You can't talk about the mystics in the west anymore," and they laugh because it was true. Merton would be very happy to know that she was canonized in 2013. But I do find that mysticism such as Merton's is so direct and plugs me into God like no other prayer. He says just following, "I did not love you for fun." Statements like this are so powerful and cut through layer upon layer of spiritual fog. I am hoping to become a Catholic, and I hope that there is room for me to embrace this kind of mysticism within the faith. I would love if someone would comment.
I was received into The Church some 30 years ago, and have yet to discover within The Church any faith experience that cannot be found, developed and encouraged. Every Blessing as you continue your journey - you do not travel alone or for no reason. The Great Source of Love is calling you for a purpose. I will pray or you.
Prayer is an exercise of total honesty towards oneself in finding that which is praying in relation to God, one of wakefulness, of vigilant observance of the mind's tendency to roam about, finding 'important' things to deal with when you sit down to prayer.
I would have done pretty much anything to meet and speak with this incredible man! He understood, truly! Fr Richard Rohr speaks so highly of Thomas Merton.. he brought me to him 🙏❤✨
16:57 “This is what you do when you want to know God: You don’t go looking for an object called God. You cultivate the awareness of love in a awake heart.”
27:54 Since God offers to take upon himself the care of our affairs, let us once for all abandon them to his infinite wisdom, that we may never more be occupied with ought but him and his interest.
@@almilligan7317 No, good point. Merton is sadly being heretical: "He who has the Son has the Father, but he who does not have the Son does not have the Father."
I definitely prefer his writings as opposed to his formal and somewhat stilted lecture style. I suppose that was the rhetorical style of the times but I found it difficult to access.
Ya, agreed. The Theravada Buddhists are very aware of this: holding precepts is one of the best ways to advance in meditation and experience more peace.
If God is 'jealous' then he is imperfect which is never my idea of a God, isn't jealously for the petty minded so how can God be weak minded in this way, how many type God's is there? So..... 🤔
I grew up being taught that the word “jealous” in this case isn’t the kind of jealousy we’re familiar today, but instead is meant to communicate that God expects us to worship him and none else. It might be interesting to look at other translations to find additional insight as to what the intended message/teaching was.
Just imagine what Thomas Merton would think of these conservative Catholics and the utter misinterpretation of the Gospel of Christ. Unbelievable. Christ wasn't a Republican, nor a New York real estate agent, etc. C'mon Catholics! Get real!
Timestamps: 00:55 Prayer should be as simple as breathing 03:05 We belong to God. He is our father. 04:20 The curse of prayer is when it becomes a role 06:10 Prayer is a vocation 06:50 Sadly, prayer can become a time of self-evaluation 07:20 Prayer shouldn’t focus on ourselves. It’s about acceptance. 08:20 Prayer should be about finding one’s heart (monastic tradition) 11:40 How commentaries can discourage our study of Psalms 12:35 Delight in reciting and meditating on the Psalms 13:05 Do ordinary things in love and your knowledge of God increases 14:05 Sufism: Love God and do things with love will bring divine knowledge 15:30 Hesychasm & continuous prayer 16:10 Awakening your heart is the study of the monk 16:40 It’s by love that we know God 17:10 Cultivate a patient, humble spirit 17:45 Carmelite nuns focusing on continuous prayer 18:29 Continuous prayer means cultivating an awareness of love 19:42 The simplest way to be aware of love of God 22:50 The solitary and monastic life is about putting away all care 24:31 The monastic life accepts death and renunciation of care 25:10 Goal of going to solitude is to cast your cares on God 26:18 It’s easy to fill your life with care even when in solitude 27:55 Abandon your cares to God. God is taking care of everything. 29:10 We are here to love others. 31:50 World is opaque because of care. 37:17 Every person encounters God. 38:20 Prayer is an emergence into infinite freedom 40:37 The great problem of prayer (fixed in our ego) 44:36 Theology of the cross 45:20 Theology of prayer 47:25 Christ as mediator in prayer 47:50 Progress in prayer 49:10 How Job cries out to God vs Adam 51:30 Christ teaches us prayer (Gospel of Luke) 54:00 When prayer become real 55:01 The heart of prayer 56:00 The presence of Christ is always with us
'I' is the False Entity which recognises with the body, flesh, bones, mind and it's never ending thoughts But 'I AM' is the ever-present, Eternal your SELF
Love this, including the big pauses that allow for (I take it) contemplation of the previous lecture. I also love the nature sounds in some of these recordings (the insects, etc) and Mertin’s pronunciation of “ego” as Eggo, like the store-bought waffles 😊
Two years on from your comment and God is still using Merton's voice to call us, his wandering flock home. I recently discovered some of his teachings on contemplation and haven't been able to stop listening since 😂
Leviticus 19:31 'Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.' Matthew 22:32 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.'
Our heart is where we meet the Bridegroom, where the Wedding banquet is and where we learn to love loving...not for what we get but what we give...💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏
This may have one of Thomas Merton’s talks at the Sisters of Loretto mother house down the road from the Trappist monastery. His visits were eagerly awaited there and his words stayed with the nuns for life.
25:31 surrendering totally to God . Self abandonment is that continual forgetfulness of self, which leaves the soul free to eternally love God, untroubled by those fears, reflections, regrets and anxieties which the care of ones own perfection and salvation gives.
I hold dear in my heart the time which I have spent in silent contemplation at the Abbey Gethsemani in KY. Reading Marton and praying to release myself from control on the hill of the cross that overlooks the abbey. Also the cheese was amazing.
Thanks be to God for this wonderful and God-given opportunity. May the Spirit of Prayer and Contemplation pervade our noisy and cluttered Society. The World needs to pray and must pray. This is the most important thing in the world right now! We cannot live without God! Prayer is the way to develop a sustainable and joyful life and this is only possible if we love God!!! Praying, True Prayer is loving God! Thank you and may God bless us and the troubled world we are in now! Divine Mercy; Our Lord Jesus Christ, we must trust completely!!!
To most people, prayer means you must pray TO someone and pray FOR something. And by "god" people think it's a dude in the sky! It's difficult even to use these terms.
Interesting. To me, it sounds like he spoke with a plain non-regional American accent. I wouldn't have expected that in someone who was born and raised in France, educated in England, spent a few years in New York, and lived most of his life in Kentucky. I would have thought we would hear some international and/or regional flavor in his voice.
I agree. I searched out this recording because I wondered precisely that and am equally surprised. I am from NY area and its that accent i hear in Merton. He spent time in US as a child did stay in US from college age on.
he really really nails it; this little light of mine, i gonna let it shine; this little light of mine; i gonna let it shine; merton was a mountaineer in solitude and silence, breathing it in and out in the great footsteps of iesua
In one of our most perilous times in the history of the world, he wrote many letters to different influential people concerning world peace. One pivotal letter was to Jack Kennedys mother Rose about the horror of nuclear war. A Cold Warriors heart turning back from the Brink in 1962 and moving towards Real Peace with our most dangerous adversary culminating in the "Peace Speech" at the American University.
Thank you so much for putting together and uploading this inspiring video. I was checking to see if I could add Spanish subtitles to it but I see that you don't have the option to allow community contributions enabled, so I can't do it. If you're interested in having those subtitles I would be glad to add them as a community contribution (=for free). This way I could share it with my prayer group here in Spain. Thanks again! ♥
One of the few true inspirations in a much prescribed environment. Mertons prose is illuminating and life changing ... eastern and western ideals colliding into a distilled beauty x
The clarity is an inspiration for Humanity! And ultimately, 'quietly by yourself' see how it applies deeply to you... if that Grace comes along-- Grounded in Love for God.
I like his idea about reaching God through your heart rather than your intellect (around 16:00). Although, I think it's good to use your intellect but we need to go beyond it at some point I think. If we don't use our intellect we can reach God but aren't capable of working out his will or really understand what our encounter with him means. We can end up being fundamentalists.
O, O My, I love this its to much to take in, but love this I am glad I found this, its so hard to find someone who can help me and lead me in spiritual direction but now sooooo bless to find this. Father Merton pray 🙏 for me.
Gee, it’s a good thing there are six commercials interrupting this content. I’d hate to think God wasn’t making enough money through UA-cam’s ad revenue structure. #bless
The moments Merton speaks of the mundane problems of care in monastic life using humor and hearing the students laugh with him are so precious. Awesome basic humanity between teacher n’ novices. I hope those young men went on to live noble lives.
I see now that you have the tape here on the page. Merton says some good things but is too intelligent and too knowledgeable and because of this he says too much. Prayer is Silence and Acceptance of God in us and His Will. That is it! Now shut up and be Silent!
It would be helpful to have the titles of the talks in the video credits. They are NOT there. The TMerton Ctr at Bellarmine sells each talk with its cataloged title...
Hey there TheBradyXXX, check out "New Seeds of Contemplation". I am registered to take a course on Thomas Merton's life and this is one of the required readings. Hope this helps :)
How can l buy and order the audio tape? You say how great the tape is but l can't find out how to get it. I will continue to search this add to find out how to order Merton's tape but this is extremely poor organization on your part!
There's been a lot of opaque packages that have had to be unwrapped and not all of them were delightful presents. The prayer of the heart was let out of the prisons of forms without destroying the forms themselves. The scaffold of prayer forms remain but are not it's beginning and end in the eternal presence . Ie we are not confining God to forms nor could we ever because of his interpenetrability.
Merton didn't want to talk about prayer since this would reduce prayer into a cause or issue to fight for. However, this video on prayer by the same took 59 minutes. 🙏😏
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I've been reading Merton's works for over 20 years. So powerful and humbling to hear him speak it.
I love this explanation. It confirms my understanding that we need to surrender in prayer with our heart wide open to receive the wisdom of Christ within it. We have this battle within, the false ego construct vs the true identity which is closes to our child self before the ego was formed. If we can calm the monkey mind long enough in prayer/meditation we can hear that inner voice guiding us. Ask, seek and find. The door will be opened.
Beautifully said thank you❤
Thank you for posting this. I’ve read almost every writing Merton put out, but Ive never heard his voice.
He mentions Angela of Foligno, a 13th c. mystic, at 50:10. He says "You can't talk about the mystics in the west anymore," and they laugh because it was true. Merton would be very happy to know that she was canonized in 2013. But I do find that mysticism such as Merton's is so direct and plugs me into God like no other prayer. He says just following, "I did not love you for fun." Statements like this are so powerful and cut through layer upon layer of spiritual fog. I am hoping to become a Catholic, and I hope that there is room for me to embrace this kind of mysticism within the faith. I would love if someone would comment.
I was received into The Church some 30 years ago, and have yet to discover within The Church any faith experience that cannot be found, developed and encouraged. Every Blessing as you continue your journey - you do not travel alone or for no reason. The Great Source of Love is calling you for a purpose. I will pray or you.
@@crossland2007 Thank you so much, Chris.
How are you now?
@@jeremyc2445 Nice of you to ask. Dropped out of RCIA, but finding my relationship with God growing every day. Whatever works.
Thanking you dearest future saint Thomas M. I love you.
Prayer is an exercise of total honesty towards oneself in finding that which is praying in relation to God, one of wakefulness, of vigilant observance of the mind's tendency to roam about, finding 'important' things to deal with when you sit down to prayer.
An exceptional and complex person that I love so much. Thomas Merton is definitely my role model. God bless 🙏🏻🕊️🙏🏻 19:25
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Having a dialogue with Merton, I really like this guy. Thanks.
Richard rohr
How to pray
The humour of the man shines through
One who dwells to know the true meaning of 'I' and 'I AM' within themselves are the Ones who will be closer to GOD
Gloria in Excelsis Deo! 🙏
Finding this came at the exact right time. So pleased you posted this- thank you.
Brilliant. Thank you.
Beautiful and freeing.
I would have done pretty much anything to meet and speak with this incredible man! He understood, truly! Fr Richard Rohr speaks so highly of Thomas Merton.. he brought me to him 🙏❤✨
You can be with him through his books.
Read his writings, you feel like he’s in the room with his robe on and his hand on your shoulder, walking you through it.
Thankyou ❤
16:57 “This is what you do when you want to know God: You don’t go looking for an object called God. You cultivate the awareness of love in a awake heart.”
Merton really moved me.
Awakening the I AM NESS in the spiritual heart is the study of the monk
This is the meaning of Thomas Merton's 16:10
Grateful
27:54 Since God offers to take upon himself the care of our affairs, let us once for all abandon them to his infinite wisdom, that we may never more be occupied with ought but him and his interest.
Love only Love is His Word
IF you have Jesus Christ, then God is in you.
But Merton is saying regardless if you have Jesus You have god in you.
@@almilligan7317 No, good point. Merton is sadly being heretical: "He who has the Son has the Father, but he who does not have the Son does not have the Father."
God is ever present and ever listening. We just do not understand this very high availability
I definitely prefer his writings as opposed to his formal and somewhat stilted lecture style. I suppose that was the rhetorical style of the times but I found it difficult to access.
I do have to practice virtue consciously though, because if I don’t I will unconsciously go back to self seeking
Ya, agreed. The Theravada Buddhists are very aware of this: holding precepts is one of the best ways to advance in meditation and experience more peace.
The subtitles are often quite wrong. I don't know how that could be changed (so much for AI?)
11:38
If God is 'jealous' then he is imperfect which is never my idea of a God, isn't jealously for the petty minded so how can God be weak minded in this way, how many type God's is there? So..... 🤔
I grew up being taught that the word “jealous” in this case isn’t the kind of jealousy we’re familiar today, but instead is meant to communicate that God expects us to worship him and none else. It might be interesting to look at other translations to find additional insight as to what the intended message/teaching was.
@@jonnyj7137 sounds petty to me tbh
Great monk. He could have become enlightened in this life if he went beyond christianity.
I think he must have been enlightened. Although perhaps had not entirely transcended his religion, but nor has the Dali llama. :)
Just imagine what Thomas Merton would think of these conservative Catholics and the utter misinterpretation of the Gospel of Christ. Unbelievable. Christ wasn't a Republican, nor a New York real estate agent, etc. C'mon Catholics! Get real!
“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.”
- Jonathan Edwards
I've loved this guy for fifty years.
Timestamps:
00:55 Prayer should be as simple as breathing
03:05 We belong to God. He is our father.
04:20 The curse of prayer is when it becomes a role
06:10 Prayer is a vocation
06:50 Sadly, prayer can become a time of self-evaluation
07:20 Prayer shouldn’t focus on ourselves. It’s about acceptance.
08:20 Prayer should be about finding one’s heart (monastic tradition)
11:40 How commentaries can discourage our study of Psalms
12:35 Delight in reciting and meditating on the Psalms
13:05 Do ordinary things in love and your knowledge of God increases
14:05 Sufism: Love God and do things with love will bring divine knowledge
15:30 Hesychasm & continuous prayer
16:10 Awakening your heart is the study of the monk
16:40 It’s by love that we know God
17:10 Cultivate a patient, humble spirit
17:45 Carmelite nuns focusing on continuous prayer
18:29 Continuous prayer means cultivating an awareness of love
19:42 The simplest way to be aware of love of God
22:50 The solitary and monastic life is about putting away all care
24:31 The monastic life accepts death and renunciation of care
25:10 Goal of going to solitude is to cast your cares on God
26:18 It’s easy to fill your life with care even when in solitude
27:55 Abandon your cares to God. God is taking care of everything.
29:10 We are here to love others.
31:50 World is opaque because of care.
37:17 Every person encounters God.
38:20 Prayer is an emergence into infinite freedom
40:37 The great problem of prayer (fixed in our ego)
44:36 Theology of the cross
45:20 Theology of prayer
47:25 Christ as mediator in prayer
47:50 Progress in prayer
49:10 How Job cries out to God vs Adam
51:30 Christ teaches us prayer (Gospel of Luke)
54:00 When prayer become real
55:01 The heart of prayer
56:00 The presence of Christ is always with us
TY! It is so considerate and lovely when someone does this on videos.
This is so helpful! Thanks!
Thank you. God bless you.
You are doing Gods work
Thank you for this very thoughtful collection of key wisdoms. Very kind of you.
'I' is the False Entity which recognises with the body, flesh, bones, mind and it's never ending thoughts
But 'I AM' is the ever-present, Eternal your SELF
I’m crying listening to Merton. This is very freeing and releasing. I needed to hear this. Been seeking God and answers.
Buck up!!😂
How are things going with you
Love this, including the big pauses that allow for (I take it) contemplation of the previous lecture. I also love the nature sounds in some of these recordings (the insects, etc) and Mertin’s pronunciation of “ego” as Eggo, like the store-bought waffles 😊
😂❤🙏🏽
Merton got it. "Prayer is as simple as breathing" 🙏...
Thank you for that reminder.
@@Find-Your-Bliss- +
YahWeh or YHWH literally is the sounds of breathing in and out. ❤
He doesn't mind using examples from other religions because he doesn't need to prove his own faith to others,
Thomas Merton helps me understand God in my daily living!
I can't stop listening to Thomas Merton. God speaks through him even from beyond his grave.
I feel the same..came up in my feed just as I needed
Two years on from your comment and God is still using Merton's voice to call us, his wandering flock home. I recently discovered some of his teachings on contemplation and haven't been able to stop listening since 😂
Leviticus 19:31 'Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.' Matthew 22:32 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.'
Our heart is where we meet the Bridegroom, where the Wedding banquet is and where we learn to love loving...not for what we get but what we give...💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏
What wonderful words - yes
Brilliant, passionate, astounding. I feel at once solaced by the simplicity of prayer and called to the work of infinite creative freedom.
I love the picture of Father Merton talking to D.T. Suzuki! Wonderful!
This may have one of Thomas Merton’s talks at the Sisters of Loretto mother house down the road from the Trappist monastery. His visits were eagerly awaited there and his words stayed with the nuns for life.
Thank you so much - I lost the only recording I ever had in a move and this one is so beautifully presented - wonderful!
4:22 I love seeing this image of Merton with Suzuki Roshi, it's so important to have respect and friendship between religions.
He had a beautiful relationship with thich nhat hanh as well. I love hanh’s preludes in some of Mertons writing like contemplative prayer.
25:31 surrendering totally to God .
Self abandonment is that continual forgetfulness of self, which leaves the soul free to eternally love God, untroubled by those fears, reflections, regrets and anxieties which the care of ones own perfection and salvation gives.
I hold dear in my heart the time which I have spent in silent contemplation at the Abbey Gethsemani in KY. Reading Marton and praying to release myself from control on the hill of the cross that overlooks the abbey. Also the cheese was amazing.
The red one ?
God is the creator of all things
And He is caretaker of all things
One who knows the true meaning of 'I' and 'I am' within themselves are the ones who are closer to GOD
Thanks be to God for this wonderful and God-given opportunity. May the Spirit of Prayer and Contemplation pervade our noisy and cluttered Society. The World needs to pray and must pray. This is the most important thing in the world right now! We cannot live without God! Prayer is the way to develop a sustainable and joyful life and this is only possible if we love God!!! Praying, True Prayer is loving God! Thank you and may God bless us and the troubled world we are in now! Divine Mercy; Our Lord Jesus Christ, we must trust completely!!!
To most people, prayer means you must pray TO someone and pray FOR something. And by "god" people think it's a dude in the sky!
It's difficult even to use these terms.
Interesting. To me, it sounds like he spoke with a plain non-regional American accent. I wouldn't have expected that in someone who was born and raised in France, educated in England, spent a few years in New York, and lived most of his life in Kentucky. I would have thought we would hear some international and/or regional flavor in his voice.
I agree. I searched out this recording because I wondered precisely that and am equally surprised. I am from NY area and its that accent i hear in Merton. He spent time in US as a child did stay in US from college age on.
he really really nails it; this little light of mine, i gonna let it shine; this little light of mine; i gonna let it shine; merton was a mountaineer in solitude and silence, breathing it in and out in the great footsteps of iesua
"The rabbittness of God is shinning through all these rabbits"
praying is like breathing : Merton's Wisdom
In one of our most perilous times in the history of the world, he wrote many letters to different influential people concerning world peace. One pivotal letter was to Jack Kennedys mother Rose about the horror of nuclear war.
A Cold Warriors heart turning back from the Brink in 1962 and moving towards Real Peace with our most dangerous adversary culminating in the "Peace Speech" at the American University.
The Postmaster is within you who delivers the Little YOU 'I' to the Extraordinary YOUR SELF 'I AM'
Thank you so much for putting together and uploading this inspiring video. I was checking to see if I could add Spanish subtitles to it but I see that you don't have the option to allow community contributions enabled, so I can't do it. If you're interested in having those subtitles I would be glad to add them as a community contribution (=for free). This way I could share it with my prayer group here in Spain. Thanks again! ♥
Is faith still alive in Spain?
An exceptional person. Love Thomas Merton 🙏🏻🕊️
WONDERFUL! Thanks so much!
Have an awakened heart. It's with our heart that we love and we must cultivate the awareness of Love. This is how we know God.
One of the few true inspirations in a much prescribed environment. Mertons prose is illuminating and life changing ... eastern and western ideals colliding into a distilled beauty x
Prayer and the secure common sense soul are related. AS an atheist I know this.
The clarity is an inspiration for Humanity! And ultimately, 'quietly by yourself' see how it applies deeply to you... if that Grace comes along-- Grounded in Love for God.
Merton interspersed with Planned Parenthood commercials, how bizarre.
"we should not divide prayer from the rest of our life"
Unfortunately every time Merton begins to get into the depth of his topic the recording moves on to another selection.
This is priceless, so helpful. Thank you ❤️
I like his idea about reaching God through your heart rather than your intellect (around 16:00). Although, I think it's good to use your intellect but we need to go beyond it at some point I think. If we don't use our intellect we can reach God but aren't capable of working out his will or really understand what our encounter with him means. We can end up being fundamentalists.
_is it his idea?_
@@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 I'm not sure. Maybe it was mentioned in the video but I missed it.
God was never an adjective or noun - but a verb. Peace ✌️ n’ luv
O, O My, I love this its to much to take in, but love this I am glad I found this, its so hard to find someone who can help me and lead me in spiritual direction but now sooooo bless to find this. Father Merton pray 🙏 for me.
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I have read many books by merton, have been to gethsemane., the catholic church as a whole, is not open to this type of inclusion.
Which book of him would you suggest to start with?
@@Sofia2653 i started w 7 story mountain
@@Sofia2653
The Seven Storey Mountain and New Seeds of Contemplation.
Zen and the birds.
@@Sofia2653 yes Seven Storey Mountain. A great book.....all so honest and beautifully written.
“Abandon ourselves to Him.”
Please help me identifying the individual Merton mentions at 30:04, who is he? Casado/ Casados? Thank you for your help.
Jean Pierre de Caussade, a Jesuit priest who wrote a ok called Abandonment to Divine Providence. He was early C18th (ish)
Cassuade
This pure gold
Doing things with LOVE.
can someone tell me what is the song in the beginning or who sings it ? it touches my heart
Inside My Heart by Friday.
Thanks David, blessings dear ones, love seeing you on Zoom , miss you and pray for your well being
would
thank you so much for sharing such profound wisdom
Gee, it’s a good thing there are six commercials interrupting this content. I’d hate to think God wasn’t making enough money through UA-cam’s ad revenue structure. #bless
More of this please !!!! Somehow !!!
Does anyone know where he gets the Caussade quotes?, I’ve read Abandonment to Divine Providence but can’t seem to find them
I think what he said is out of his own experience throughout his own life of prayers
@@fotyfar yes, that's correct
The moments Merton speaks of the mundane problems of care in monastic life using humor and hearing the students laugh with him are so precious. Awesome basic humanity between teacher n’ novices. I hope those young men went on to live noble lives.
I see now that you have the tape here on the page. Merton says some good things but is too intelligent and too knowledgeable and because of this he says too much. Prayer is Silence and Acceptance of God in us and His Will. That is it! Now shut up and be Silent!
It would be helpful to have the titles of the talks in the video credits. They are NOT there. The TMerton Ctr at Bellarmine sells each talk with its cataloged title...
Wondering what specific title these talks came from? Would like to purchase
Hey there TheBradyXXX, check out "New Seeds of Contemplation". I am registered to take a course on Thomas Merton's life and this is one of the required readings. Hope this helps :)
@@timidcoiffeuse Didn’t see you replied….
Just bought a month ago
And was just rewatching this:)
How can l buy and order the audio tape? You say how great the tape is but l can't find out how to get it. I will continue to search this add to find out how to order Merton's tape but this is extremely poor organization on your part!
There's been a lot of opaque packages that have had to be unwrapped and not all of them were delightful presents. The prayer of the heart was let out of the prisons of forms without destroying the forms themselves. The scaffold of prayer forms remain but are not it's beginning and end in the eternal presence . Ie we are not confining God to forms nor could we ever because of his interpenetrability.
Merton didn't want to talk about prayer since this would reduce prayer into a cause or issue to fight for.
However, this video on prayer by the same took 59 minutes. 🙏😏
An awakened heart!
I find that quite negative, divisive, judgemental and in fact weird
It's strange that Merton had an American accent. He was raised and schooled in England. He must have been a very impressionable type.
Born in Queens NY
Visited the Abby a few ago .. didn’t want to leave
Anywhere I can find a longer version of the intro song?
A great spiritual teacher.