Receive Offrir Cet Ebook Penned By Jean-Yves Leloup Available As Volume

you're a fan of Leloup you'll embrace his interpretations, The back of my copy of the book says that the author is an Orthodox priest, Uh not really! But the chapter called Transmission is fascinating, It posits that Christ's words in the Gospel to the Samaritan woman at the well known as the Orthodox saint Photini were a transmission of the Christian tradition of still prayer hesychia.
It also tells the story of how the author learned this tradition on Mount Athos from one of the spiritual sons of St.
Silouan. An irony is that he also mentions the Orthodox Elder Sophrony of Essex in England, who repented of his practice of Buddhist meditation as a young man! See his book We Shall See Him As He Is.
The writing in this book is far post Vatican II Catholic rather than Orthodox, Much of the rest of the book is basic Buddhism almost generic spirituality but that doesn't mean it's all bad, far from it.
Every time I started wondering if this author had truly encountered Christ, I found some evidence that he has mixed in with everything else.
And he does give Christ the last word!

For the Christian mystic, this is a phenomenal find, It is a wealth of knowing over time and spanning the many cultures and histories of the middle east.
It brings their roots in Europe and shows their evolution, If you are searching, this book and this author is a must read, It really fills the bill for those who have mystic eyes and ears, Beautiful! Excellent book showing where Christianity and Buddhism overlap at COMPASSION, I also enjoyed reading about Eastern Orthodox Christianity meditation practice and how similar it is to some Buddhist practice.
It's not often you can read a Christian author who sets out to show how different religions talk about the same thing.
A profound reflection on how complementary themes in Buddhism and Christianity could serve as the basis for a truly ecumenical faith

Compares Zen meditation with the Greek Orthodox practice of Hesychasm prayer of the heart

Shows how Buddha and Jesus represent the distinct yet complementary values of meditation and compassion

In Asian spiritual traditions the mountain traditionally symbolizes meditation while the ocean signifies compassion.
Jean Yves Leloup uses this metaphor to compare Buddhist and Christian approaches to meditation and compassion to reveal the similarities and divergences of these profound practices.
Emphasizing their complementary nature, Leloup describes how Jesus and Buddha are necessary to one another and how together they form a complete system: Jesus as awakening through love, and Buddha as awakening through meditation.
Where Buddha represents the forests, Jesus represents the trees, Buddha is brother to the universe, whereas Jesus is brother to humanity,

Nevertheless, these two religious traditions have a profound common ground, Compassion is central to Buddhism, and meditation practices have been central to many Christian traditions, Both view murder, theft, and the destructive use of sexuality as great barriers to realizing our essential being, and both agree on the need to rise above them.
Here, however, Leloup suggests that both faiths could benefit from the precepts of the other, The complementary aspects of Christianity and Buddhism offer the possibility for a truly profound ecumenical religion whose interfaith relations are based on deep understanding of the true meaning and practice of meditation and compassion and not merely shared goodwill.
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