THEO1016 Lecture Notes - Christian Meditation, Tyrant, Mantra
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To teach cultivation of attention would be the education par excellence, . William james: quality of attentiveness related to death. An event when it occurs suddenly, a process when you are aware of death and can understand it or have time to comprehend it: death while living. Letting it overcome you before it has arrived. When one focuses on his or her won desires. Ego, the i , works to protect the self and be in control of itself: death of ego is when one lets go of projects and desires, undergoing death to live in a new way. Entering into a reality with god is a less secure place for the ego, not more; it is not another attachment. Inward emptiness: not absence, it"s a superabundance. Repeated and focuses on jesus, this diminishes racing thoughts, it does not accelerate them.
