Me
preguntas cómo orar. Antes escribiste “Cuando intento el silencio
interior casi nunca consigo dejar fuera los pensamientos erróneos y continúo
dándole vueltas a la creencia que me está dañando”.
Tus
palabras me descubren por qué oras. Intentas superar algún problema. Creo que ahí
es donde radica la dificultad.
Orar a
causa de una contrariedad, cualquiera que sea su índole, incorpora un elemento
distorsionador: lo que pretendemos resolver.
Junto a
las verdades a interiorizar, la intención por la que oramos entrelazará como
una enredadera aquello que pretendemos disolver. Orar se convierte así en un
ejercicio esquizofrénico. Lo conseguido casi siempre es fijar más y más el
problema.
Para mí,
orar no es eso.
Es
relacionarme con Dios. Escuchar a Dios. Llenar mi conciencia de los
pensamientos de Dios. Escuchados en el silencio (puede que no sea lo más
frecuente).
O leídos
con hambrienta apertura. Con la firme confianza de recibir la comprensión
suficiente. El motivo adecuado para orar es el ferviente deseo de conocer más a
Dios. Ese saber es lo que nos da Vida.
Lo que
parece suceder como no armonioso (dolores, conflictos...), siempre ocurre por
ignorancia práctica acerca de Dios.
Según sea
el mundo que percibo, la existencia que experimento así puedo calificar mi
conocimiento de Dios. Si todo me aparece o lo siento como casi un caos, todavía
estoy lejos del aprobado.
Cuando
oramos por conocer más a Dios, a la Realidad, a la Verdad, implícitamente
reconocemos que Él es lo importante, lo único. Y entonces ese querer y
convicción amuralla nuestra conciencia contra todo pensamiento erróneo.
Y lo
expulsa del único lugar donde intenta ser: la llamada “mente mortal”.
Orar es,
pues, "entretenerme" (disfrutar), con las verdades acerca de Dios,
que en definitiva constituye por reflejo lo que nosotros somos. Es ser
consciente del Cielo donde estamos. Reconocer nuestra continúa unión con el
único e infinito Bien.
“Orad sin
cesar” (1 Tesalonicenses 5:17) porque la Vida es para siempre.
You have
asked me to tell you how to pray. You had written before “When I try to achieve
inner silence I am hardly ever able to set aside wrong thoughts, and I go on
brooding over the belief which is harming me”.
Your words have revealed to me why you pray. You are trying to overcome some kind of claim. I think the difficulty lies right there.
Praying because of some kind of discord, whatever its nature, adds a distorting element: that is, the claim you are trying to solve.
The aim when praying, together with the truths we have to learn, will intertwine as ivy round whatever we want to dissolve. Praying becomes then an extremely complex exercise. Cementing the problem more and more is what we almost always achieve that way.
In my opinion, that is not praying.
Praying is getting acquainted with God. Listening to God. Filling consciousness with thoughts from God. Listened to in silence. (Though it may not be the most frequent way).
Or thoughts read in a state of starving receptivity. Firmly trusting you will receive enough understanding.
The right motive for praying is the earnest desire to know more about God. That knowledge is what gives us Life.
Any discord which seems to be happening (pains, conflicts) results from a practical ignorance about God.
I can grade my knowledge of God according to the world I perceive and the existence I lead. If everything seems to be, or I feel it is, almost chaos, I am far from a pass mark.
When we pray to know God better, to know more of Reality, Truth, we implicitly acknowledge that He is the important One, the Only one. And then, that willingness and conviction fortifies our consciousness against every erroneous thought.
Such willingness and conviction removes wrong thoughts from the only place where they always try to exist: in what we call “mortal mind”.
Praying, then, is “entertaining” (enjoying) the truths about God, which is what we are by reflection. It is being aware of where we are: Heaven.
Praying is acknowledging our uninterrupted union with the one and infinite Good.
“Pray without ceasing” (I Thessalonians 5:17). Because Life is forever.
Your words have revealed to me why you pray. You are trying to overcome some kind of claim. I think the difficulty lies right there.
Praying because of some kind of discord, whatever its nature, adds a distorting element: that is, the claim you are trying to solve.
The aim when praying, together with the truths we have to learn, will intertwine as ivy round whatever we want to dissolve. Praying becomes then an extremely complex exercise. Cementing the problem more and more is what we almost always achieve that way.
In my opinion, that is not praying.
Praying is getting acquainted with God. Listening to God. Filling consciousness with thoughts from God. Listened to in silence. (Though it may not be the most frequent way).
Or thoughts read in a state of starving receptivity. Firmly trusting you will receive enough understanding.
The right motive for praying is the earnest desire to know more about God. That knowledge is what gives us Life.
Any discord which seems to be happening (pains, conflicts) results from a practical ignorance about God.
I can grade my knowledge of God according to the world I perceive and the existence I lead. If everything seems to be, or I feel it is, almost chaos, I am far from a pass mark.
When we pray to know God better, to know more of Reality, Truth, we implicitly acknowledge that He is the important One, the Only one. And then, that willingness and conviction fortifies our consciousness against every erroneous thought.
Such willingness and conviction removes wrong thoughts from the only place where they always try to exist: in what we call “mortal mind”.
Praying, then, is “entertaining” (enjoying) the truths about God, which is what we are by reflection. It is being aware of where we are: Heaven.
Praying is acknowledging our uninterrupted union with the one and infinite Good.
“Pray without ceasing” (I Thessalonians 5:17). Because Life is forever.
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