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What is Meditation?

Meditation is a universal spiritual wisdom and a practice found at the core of all the great religious traditions. It leads the practitioner from mind to heart and to the integration of these two centres of human being. It is not an exoteric complicated or essentially difficult practice. It is a learning process most of which it is in fact unlearning of condition and imaginary responses to reality. 

It is a way of simplicity, silence and stillness. It can be practised by anyone who is merely serious about beginning.  Soon we learn that we are always beginners. This discovery transforms many interconnected attitudes such as our fear of failure, our craving for success and our reluctance to simply be ourselves. 

In the Christian tradition, meditation is known as the prayer of the heart. This way of silent, imageless prayer, practice in stillness, was  first described by the Desert Mothers and Fathers in the 4th century. It underlies the whole Christian mystical teaching and is practiced increasingly widely today. For many it is the missing link in the chain of Christian spirituality. A relatively small group of great monastic teachers of the 20th Century, including John Main, Bede Griffiths, Henri Le Saux, Thomas Keating and Thomas Merton, reopened this inner room of contemplative riches for the modern church.