Story Meditation 3

Read the following story… Quitely breath in and breath out … Create a quiet space within you… Experience the healing power of silence within you… Let the story speak to your inner self… not to your brain… Let it reveal to you its interior depth and meaning. A meaning beyond words and reflections… Carry the story around with you all day… Enjoy the inner freedom that emerges from within. Whisper a prayer of blessing on the whole human race!… Amen “DROP YOUR NOTHING” “He thought it was of vital importance to be poor and austere. It had never dawned on him that the vitally important thing was to drop his ego; that the ego fattens on holiness just as much as on worldliness, on poverty as on riches, on austerity as on luxury. There is nothing the ego will not seize upon to inflate itself.” “Disciple: I have come to you with nothing in my hands. Master: The drop it at once! Disciple: But how can I drop it? I t is nothing. Master: Then Carry it around with you!” “You can make a possession of your nothing. And carry your renunciation around you like a trophy. Don’t drop your possessions. Drop your ego.” ****** Anthony de Mello S.J., The Song of the Bird (Anand, India, Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, 1982), pp. 130-131 E-Mail: vmalpan@gmail.com

Story-Meditation - 2

Read the story given below… Create a quiet space within you… Experience the healing power of silence within you… Let the story speak to your heart… not to your brain… Let it reveal to you its inner depth and meaning. A meaning beyond words and reflections… Carry the story around with you all day… Enjoy the inner freedom that emerges from within. A few moments of spontaneous prayer… Amen ========== “EAT YOUR OWN FRUIT” “A disciple once complained to his Master: ‘You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us.’ Said the Master: ‘How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and masticated it before giving it to you?’ No one can find your meaning for you. Not even the Master. ” Anthony de Mello S.J., The Song of the Bird (Anand, India, Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, 1982), p.2. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Conatct: vmalpan@gmail.com

Story-Meditation -1

Read the story given below… Create a quiet space within you… Experience the healing power of silence within you… Let the story speak to your heart… not to your brain… Let it reveal to you its inner depth and meaning. A meaning beyond words and reflections… Carry the story around with you all day… Enjoy the inner freedom that emerges from within. A few moments of spontaneous prayer… Amen

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“THE MASTER DOES NOT KNOW” “The seeker approached the Disciple Respectfully and asked, ‘What is the meaning of human life?’ The Disciple consulted the Written Works of His master and confidently replied with the words of the Master himself: ‘Human life is nothing but the expression of God’s exuberance.’ When the Seeker met the Master himself and asked him the same question, the Master said, ‘I do not know’. The Seeker says, ‘I do not know.’ That takes honesty. The Master says, ‘I do not know. That takes a mystical mind that knows all things through non-knowing. The Disciple says, ‘I know.’ That takes ignorance. In the form of borrowed knowledge. ”

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Anthony de Mello S.J., The Song of the Bird.

(Anand, India, Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, 1982),pp.54-55

Picture-Meditation 1

Just look at this picture. Be totally relaxed... Be present to it ... Be focused... Just be with it... Let all the tension, worry and anxiety flow out of your system... Take a deep breath... breathe in ... breath out... Allow the divine energy to flow into you... Call on God by your favourite name... Allow Him to take charge of you... Today, may good things happen to you and through you! Paul Tillich, a German theologian, says that end of history is with us all at times, cutting into our temporal existence and elevating to the eternal. Spiritual reality invites you to join a unique journey which will change your life .

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African Prayer

“Inspired by titles of some novels and books about Africa” “God of our Brother Jesus Christ, Things are falling apart in Africa, and we are no longer at ease; the evils that torment us are like an open sore. Daily we walk upon the famished road to parched farm lands dying in the sun; our hunt for food is like striving for the wind; in vain we search for a grain of wheat in our granaries. At sunset we walk the narrow path back to shadows of the night; on our bamboo beds we contemplate fragments of our broken dreams; we lack even the will to die. God of our Brother, Jesus Christ, Hear the voice of Africa; heal the wound and tribal scars That have disfigured the face of our continent; lead us with compassion on our long walk to freedom. Free us from the evil that keeps us bound to violence; may our children live more than a few nights and days. When our eyes are shut in death, may we never become a carcass for hounds; bring us in safety into the house of the ancestors; where we may dwell in peace for two thousand seasons.

Amen.”

Courtesy: Agbonkhianmehe E. Orobator, Theology Brewed in an African Pot ((Maryknoll, New York, Orbis Books, 2008), pp. 64-65.