http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDFMED.HTM
This was written by Ratzinger and approved by JPII. Maharishi said that the Pope was a pious man and that this couldn't have been his work. I believe that this was the same occasion when Maharishi commented that 100 popes (maybe 1000) couldn't convince him that suffering was the way to God. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnlasher20002000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wonder if they did was it in an encyclical which one & date of it? > etc. > > This is the document written by the present pope regarding meditation. > He does NOT condem TM and eastern forms of meditation but puts them in > a context of Christian prayer namely that the meditation prepares one > for Unity but that the final step is Grace, a concept similar to what > Maharishi has also said. Below are some of the relative excerpts. > > SOME ASPECTS OF CHRISTIAN MEDITATION > Issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on October > 15, 1989. > > 16. The majority of the "great religions" which have sought union with > God in prayer have also pointed out ways to achieve it. Just as "the > Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these > religions,"18 neither should these ways be rejected out of hand simply > because they are not Christian. On the contrary, one can take from > them what is useful so long as the Christian conception of prayer, its > logic and requirements are never obscured. > > 28. genuine practices of meditation which come from the Christian East > and from the great non-Christian religions, which prove attractive to > the man of today who is divided and disoriented, cannot constitute a > suitable means of helping the person who prays to come before God with > an interior peace, even in the midst of external pressures. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
