Father Thomas Keating Centering Prayer at The Crossings

Thomas Keating conducts a deep meditative prayer at the tribute to Wayne Teasdale, September 2005 at the Crossings in Austin, Texas.

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[frenchdenis]

Thank you so much for posting this! I truly loved it and deeply admire Father Thomas Keating's work.

[Osmun79]

Wonderful lecture.. Contemplative Prayer can be an amazing experience.

[RobertWeigel]

Thank you!

[NilDesperandum777]

@GODSWORDTANDP By claiming The Vatican has sweepingly changed Sacred Scripture, that belies the fact that the deposit of faith was given to The Catholic Church, and in the Christ's Church, 2 Tim 3:16, Sacred Scripture was identified,selected and compiled according to Christ's will. Catholics not only have read their Bibles, but were responsible for it's maintenance. The truth of interpretation lies in the threefold approach of Scripture, Tradition and Magisterium, not in Sola Scriptura.

[NilDesperandum777]

@GODSWORDTANDP When The Lord said to call no man, "Father", He wasn't saying to cease calling a person's father,by the appropriate descriptor, to do so, would A) Literally make no sense, given various parable including the teachable "father", and B) Counter the commandment to honour one's parents. Catholics call priests "Father" as an identification of spiritual parentage in knowledge. Letters between Timothy, "son" and Paul indicate the early comfort/understanding of this obvious address.

[jhgosnell]

@GODSWORDTANDP Having viewed many comments from all over you tube, I suspect now that centering prayer is not right for many people. I don't know why, but it seems that for many it is not the right approach. Perhaps the more common practices of verbal prayer, song, and reading the bible deeply are more suitable. I respect and enjoy these practices as well.

Blessings & Godspeed!

[jhgosnell]

@GODSWORDTANDP I am still new to it, but I'll try to say something about it. Centering prayer is one way to consent to God's presence and action within: as is communion, song, deep study of scripture, etc. If one doesn't care for the idea of a "technique", perhaps they can just dismiss the idea of "centering prayer" and simply consent to God's presence and action within...no method is needed, just our sincerity. A method is simply useful.

Kind regards.

[jhgosnell]

@GODSWORDTANDP Thanks for your feedback. Yes, to me, the stillness in an inner stillness. The body may not be still, but it can be ideal to allow the body to be relatively still. Sometimes laying in bed I feel this kind of stillness within, but I am not doing centering prayer or any technique. That inner stillness is also God indwelling. There is no technique required for this...should I avoid inner stillness during these times since it resembles "centering prayer?"

[GODSWORDTANDP]

@cez618 and jhgosnell

ztstar is responding to you under GODSWORDTANDP

[GODSWORDTANDP]

To cez618 & jhgosnell,

Hi, cez618, I’m not sure what you mean when you refer to judgment? If your statement is in reply to the comment I made regarding Catholicism, I assure you it is Biblical.  GOD does not ‘hear’ people that sin, and anyone who has rejected HIS witness about HIS Son. And GOD’s witness about HIS Son in the true and only witness that matters. People do ‘theorectically’ believe in JESUS but, only GOD knows a person’s heart, in that what that person truly believes.

[GODSWORDTANDP]

@cez618 Now, Our LORD told us: “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.” John 4:23 NKJV Thing means coming to GOD in the way HE requires. Spirit, i.e. the persons spirit, not The HOLY SPIRIT, and that persons spirit ‘being changed’ to accept the things of The Spirit of GOD, which is the New Birth.

[GODSWORDTANDP]

@cez618 The Truth part means that we believe everything GOD has said about who HE is, and we must come to HIM in that way and no other. We cannot make up, or deviated from what HE says is truth, but people do. For example and I due to space I won’t get into a lenghthy discussion but JESUS said: Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. Matthew 23:9 NKJV