Essential Teaching

The Essential Teaching

John Main

This the first set of John Main's recorded teaching on meditation, has beome a basic introduction to the tradition and its practice

CD 1: An Introduction to Christian Meditation is a basic description of the why and how of meditation as well as a survey of the contemplative tradition in which this teaching is firmly rooted.

Talk 1 15:30 Christian Context of Meditation
Talk 2 15:25 Look at sort of silence needed for Meditation
Talk 3 15:30 Examine Meditation as are way to wholeness
Talk 4 15:00 Meditation as a process of self discovery

CD 2 Meditation: The Christian Experience explains the essential Christian theology of meditation in the language of the mystery of the Trinity, presenting it in terms of the experience of change, rather than as an abstract theory.

Talk 1 14:37 Know Yourself
Talk 2 14:00 Capacity for Silence
Talk 3 16:00 Called to be a full person
Talk 4 13:00 Reconize the life of God