Not referring to the same text, but to the "cult of the body" remark of the time:
http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDFMED.HTM http://www.apostle1.com/orthinfo/Transcendental%20Meditation1.htm http://www.skepticfiles.org/rumor/vaticanz.htm --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "at_man_and_brahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/
