Prayer is strength of the soul, the Teaching says. So, we men have our own prayer –characteristic and individual– belonging to us. Personally, to discover, develop and enrich this prayer is my spiritual growth and the purpose of my passing through life.
Discursive meditation should be based on faith in order to become effective.
You may ask if all other –affective and sensitive meditations– likewise should not be based on faith. If you take strictly the latter as a mental-affective mechanism in action, they require no particular faith of the individual.
Every rule aiming at achieving the Divine Union has its exception.
Certain souls never knew Meditation and others ignored Concentration but reached a perfect Union with God. Any indiscriminate imposition of these rules on everybody is to ignore that every soul is a separate world and needs its own rules and an especial development to reach the goal.
Prayer shall be full when a man has to transform himself into testimony of faith, and to discern continuously obvious truths and possible truths in the teaching. A soul remains always on a state of perfect prayer when the divine truth is centered on it.
Meditation is an affective act of the soul; this is why it has certain mechanic mode, because each being realizes God according to his inner idiosyncrasy. But the exercise of meditation, if contributes quite partially by itself, makes the mind acquire certain habit that facilitates one’s meditation and prepares for it.
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“Memento Homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris. Pretiosa in conspectu
Domini mors sanctorum ejus.”
Think that the suffering coming from the fight is like the death of the unbelievers.
In Cafh, the first vow marks the birth of a new life.
It implies a need for reviewing old concepts structuring a way of feeling thinking and acting.
This special structure of feelings and thoughts, and of its correlated action, would compose the old man, and had been built from premises that gave as the only reality a reality constituted by the physical body and its needs.