I read this yesterday too. I was wondering what meditation technique the Pope was using. He might have started something new here.
It may be a form of anapanasati meditation technique which I'm familiar with. It's simple and does not require a mantra. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote: It's called *Waiting on the Lord* From: "dhamiltony2k5@..." <dhamiltony2k5@...> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 8:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: New Pope uses old meditation practice.. Filled with light. Sounds like a Quaker to me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: In an interview with the Rome daily La Repubblica, editor Eugenio Scalfari quoted the pope as saying he was "seized by a great anxiety" moments after his election and asked the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel to give him a few minutes time to think things over. "To make it go away and relax, I closed my eyes and made every thought disappear, even the thought of refusing to accept the position, as the liturgical procedure allows," he was quoted as saying. "At a certain point I was filled with a great light. It lasted a moment, but to me it seemed very long. Then the light faded, I got up suddenly and walked into the room where the cardinals were waiting." The pope was quoted as saying he signed the acceptance form and went out on the balcony to be introduced to the world as Pope Francis.
