Thomas Merton - What Contemplation is NOT - New Seeds of Contemplation
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Readings from selected chapters from the text "Seeds of Contemplation" by Thomas Merton. Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion. On May 26, 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name "Father Louis". Merton wrote more than 50 books in a period of 27 years, mostly on spirituality, social justice and a quiet pacifism, as well as scores of essays and reviews.
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This has by far become my favorite channel and source on the Internet. Thank you so much for bringing this wisdom to us. For taking the time to add the peaceful and beautiful music, and finding the most direct and luminous teachings throughout history.
You're most welcome Shane. May it bring you great joy, peace and blessings in these turbulent times. ❤️
@@SamaneriJayasara If I could make a request, please add more from this author!
Same here this gift of your readings of these great sages and teachers all pointing in the same direction...is all I listen to these days...thank you om shanti shanti shanti ☯️🕉❤️🙏🏼
My goodness, it’s truly beautiful to hear the words of an enlightened being. Thank you so much for introducing me to so many wonderful minds ♥️
I have been watching the subscribers list and it seems like almost 100 new souls daily are being pulled by your magnetic spirit.
When you see divinity working in such away is it any wonder that so many seekers are being touched by you,. Just as divinity is pulling us,divinity is also pulling you.... Such a beautiful divine dance,Just behold the beauty.....
your readings have taken me to the threshold of Nirvana. Thank you so very much.
Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu
Dear Jayasara , just what we needed to hear in this time of uncertainty in our world. I must admit I was surprised you are reading a Christian text. But also delighted. My heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with you and your little community in Bundanoon in this time of crisis so soon after the fires over Christmas. I really admire your courage to keep making videos in the face of adversity for us all to listen and draw comfort from. God bless you and keep you safe. ❤️❤️
You're most welcome Nick. I enjoy these daily meditations and readings - it is far from a chore - and a wonderful use of our time in solitude and "lock down". Hope you are your family are keeping safe and well in these turbulent times. ❤️
I believe that if this work was a chore for you, we all wouldn't be enjoying it so much. I've said it before, but I thank you as well. I feel you are filling a vital Niche that has gone comparably unrepresented on youtube. Prrsonally, I listen nearly all day every day.
I’ve just started listening to your meditations because I’m reading Celebration of Disciplines by Richard Foster who gave a quote of Thomas Merton. I feel it’s the WHO I Am that has brought me here!! Thank you for this “Reflective Thought”
@@SamaneriJayasara I’m so grateful to you for your work. I listen several times a day as I’m a natural solitaire and have been told I’m a sadhu so need your videos as my lifeline god bless and 💕 thank you 🙏🏼 😌🌼
Please, please continue with this series. Having never read Thomas Merton - even after his works being recommended to me by several friends - I am delighted that my first introduction is by way of you. I also have been reading along with you, now that I got the book; and your subtle neutralizing changes make all the difference in accessibility. Thanks again for you dedication to presenting all these works with such care and finesse.
More to come!
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Keep doing what you are doing. You work is more necessary that you can begin to imagine. I thank you from the depths of my heart.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I need your channel more than ever in these unsettling times. Thank you so much.Blessings from nz . You are a gift.
How can I Express in words, the precious company for my returning Home... 💖 Bless Your Soul IS... 💖
Sending gratitude from a Daoist monastery near Seattle! 💙☯️☔️
This is FABULOUS!!! Thank-you!!
I love your channel, thank you ❤️🙏
this teachings are very important as popular Christianity believes meditation or contemplative inquiry as eastern philosophy and outside the body of Christ without realizing this is exactly what Christ was pointing towards. I have tried to tell a few Christians about it but they immediately shut me up & dismiss it as devilish and dark & cannot be Christlike so I've decided never to talk about it except the opportunity presents itself
Me too!!. I was raised as a Christian and as a kid I had a natural tendency to try to meditate or somehow reach a transcendent state and I was told this was dangerous by my mom.
There are many branches of christianity. Some are more tolerant of other spiritual paths. Even the catholic church recently had to admit that comparable spiritual salvation does exist in other religions.
But the church I went to taught that if you were not Christian and had not accepted Jesus as your personal lord and savior, you went to hell and that was that.
I rejected this view as early as I was mentally able to really consider this. I looked at other religions and many say the same thing about THEIR religions. I've even heard some Buddhist and Hindu people claim theirs is the only one true path.
They also site their holy texts just like my church did. So why should I believe any of them?
On the other hand, in my 20s I figured out that there is a truth behind and beyond each religion which is true no matter what.
I once heard a Sikh man say that he does not want to convert people to his religion. He just wants to convince everyone to connect with God in whatever way they like, as long as they truly connect with god. That is my 'religion'
I believe too that this is what all the great Gurus and sages had also discovered. All the people we venerate like Jesus Christ, Gauthama Buddha, Mohammed, Moses, Ramana Maharshi, and so many many others...
They all taught the seeking of Truth/God within our own nature over the adherence to any religious dogma.
I'm sorry to hear this. It's unfortunately the case amongst many evangelical protestants. However, Catholicism and eastern orthodoxy have deep, rich mystical traditions stretching all the way back. I would encourage you to begin reading the sayings of the desert fathers and others like PseduoDionysus the Areopogite. God bless.
I had always had that same opinion Merton expresses about "Cogito ergo sum" ( I think therefore I am). Something about that never sat right with me.
A few years ago I heard an explanation which clarified it perfectly for me. In an Eckhart Tolle book he talks about how 300 years after DesCartes' "Cogito ergo sum", Jean Paul Sartre wrote that "The I that thinks is not the same I which says 'I am.'"
I am aware, therefore I am aware of that which arises in awareness, some of which is thinking. 🙃
@@SarahDale111 Cartesian epistemology is nonsense
@@Joeonline26 And nothing I know anything about. I suppose I'll google it!
No I no me no mine... awakening to reality
Infinitely Sweet!!!! Thank you so much. What is the music title. So grateful for your Devotion to the Truth.
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