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Do Not Resent, Do Not React, Keep Inner Stillness
Yo, Tom. If you get a chance, check out the Kallistos Ware talk on the Jesus Prayer. It's good.
To me, the Jesus Prayer is practical, but it's so much more than that. I think it's absolutely essential for Christian spiritual development.
It's gotta be in the "Salvage Yard", bro. 
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Reposting...
Important terms:
theosis (Union with Christ, Christification, Image and Likeness, etc)
hesychasm (Jesus Prayer)
epiklesis (Eucharist)
synapheia (between Christ and human believing "heart")
mimicry (identification and free expressionn of acquired personal values, concepts and behaviors from interpersonal relationship)
re-presentation (multiple contextualized expressions of singular content)
epektasis (eternal growth in God)
And the stance:
Through practicing the "Sacrament of the Present Moment" in "orans"-like humble, active reception of the Holy Spirit, focusing on Divine Presence (Jesus Prayer, etc) and experiencing inner "stillness" and "apatheia" in God in one's "heart" (hesychasm), the core of us beyond all sensory or intellectual deliberation, one can experience one's own "logoi", thereby experiencing the Spiritual Presence of Christ-the-Logos, the Divine Center of All Things, in the deepest center of our most unique and particular "selves." The meeting place of the created "I am" and the Uncreated "I AM...Immanuel" that Satan has no access to. In that holy sanctuary of the Self, we offer ourselves as "living sacrifices" to God in faith, we experience God "willing" and "doing" in us, as the Risen Christ lives "in, as, and through" us...and we actively participate in God's energies, in God's very life. We are truly "one with the Lord in Spirit."
We become most ourselves when we have a transparent relationship to our Divine Center, the Spiritual Presence of Christ...when the deepest core of ourselves is sealed into a love covenant with God in Christ...when we become irreducibly unique, creative living pray-ers to God.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 3/9/2011 2:23:50 PM (GMT-6) |