𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐧𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 ~ Christian Mysticism

Selected excerpts from the text, "The Cloud of Unknowing" - formatted for meditation/contemplation. A number of translations have been used but most were taken from Carmen Acevedo Butcher's translation.
The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism, most likely a Carthusian monk, written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the Late Middle Ages. The underlying message of this work suggests that the way to know God is to abandon consideration of God's particular activities and attributes, and be courageous enough to surrender one's mind and ego to the realm of "unknowing", at which point one may begin to glimpse the nature of God.
The Cloud of Unknowing draws on the mystical tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, which focuses on the via negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image or form.
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[@SamaneriJayasara]

If you would like to meditate to a NO MUSIC version of this you can listen and/or download it here: drive.google.com/file/d/10_a7DSbuQpoH6aKRANiewvEYuoMMq6EB/view?usp=share_link For ease of access, my recordings can be found under the relevant headings in my Playlists tab - go to my Home page to find them. Other links people have requested: All of my recordings Google Drive: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VYTr5l7jARi_Kb_aB0Jjjq2RZF9kacK7 Donations for Viveka Hermitage: paypal.me/VivekaHermitage Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4mrR5M8mS7FlGJYAfk7sEr Patreon: www.patreon.com/jayasara Viveka Hermitage website: www.vivekahermitage.com Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/br/podcast/wisdom-of-the-masters/id1550828138

[@kentuckyrose1586]

I’m 71 years of age and I’ve been walking a spiritual path since the age of 25. With the health problems I’ve had I don’t think I’ll live to a ripe old age so, I asked my Higher Power to immerse me. I want to leave here immersed in God. That is when I came across Samaneri Jayasara’s videos. My prayers have been answered. To listen to these is immersion into your God Self. This is the closest I’ve been to God and I feel I’ve been given a gift. Thank you. I am forever grateful. Love to all.

[@solveiglarsen33]

I'm almost 71...and my story is similar....Peace and Love ❤..( I too, relish the immersion. 🙏🌹❤️ )

[@jagirkaur6216]

"Leave here immersed in god"ah yes it what this heart's carving too.

[@lazzacarrotman4925]

Me too❤

[@jameswilliams4993]

So very grateful for this

[@jameswilliams4993]

Love never ends

[@ly6203]

When some people may have healing hands, Others can have healing eyes, you definitely have a healing voice.❤️

[@sweetpeanmolly]

I so agree 🙏🙏🙏

[@wandapaumen7396]

So true. Just soothes my heart, heart, and Divinity of soul

[@rhondaurb]

Absolutely

[@chrisd2372]

I agree big time

[@Quina-estaffa]

Definitly❤

[@pamelaschifano3234]

YOU ARE SUCH A GIFT TO THIS WORLD! I spend EVERY DAY with you, Thank you so very much for your heartfelt work and beautiful voice❤

[@johnburman966]

I remember reading this small book almost 60 years back without a clue what was being said.....now I'm melting in the words....so my inner work wasn't pointless after all.

[@patriciaakts]

❤

[@lencoller6477]

Inner work is never pointless,as you now understand.for some it's instant, others it takes a lifetime.youare definitely blessed to have found this book so long ago. Much love to you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@zanewalsh1812]

Amen Ahem Namaskar Brother John I see you and hear you well and pray for my own attainment someday. 🌎🌍🌏🕊️

[@johnburman966]

@@zanewalsh1812 I have given up the idea of some" thing"called enlightenment. That's marketing. I have a very good sense of living from the heart...so don't care about that stuff anymore. Anyway awareness is ever expanding so no end to it.

[@zanewalsh1812]

@@johnburman966 thank you 🙏🏼

[@francesNothing333]

DEAR❤Sister, Yet again you've unearthed God's heavenly timeless treasures. How totally BLESSED we are by your tireless loving efforts. We're like baby chicks happily following and eagerly pecking up the divine crumbs our Blessed Mother Hen keeps dropping..... ever leading us right into the heart of God. T ❤️ Y!! 🕊️

[@oneconsc3333]

“When we reach the end of what we know... that’s when we find God... peace”. How many of us “know soooo much crap? It’s unending, we are so clever, needing to know, clinging to knowledge that we haven’t earned. This world and all the brainwashing of society, the trappings of achieve this so you can get that and then you’ll be happy... only the ego benefits, while your soul weeps as it continues to wait patiently for you to awaken. As the Zen proverb goes, “You are like this cup - so full of ideas that nothing more will fit in. Come back to me with an empty cup.”🙏🏼💜

[@williampaul8556]

At first we are picking it up. Then one day we realize that we must lay it all down. What we carry weights us down. Our burden is LIGHT.

[@tylernewman5981]

HONEST, I was reading this yesterday and thought-man I wish she would just do a video on it. And BOOM provided. Peace unto you forever.

[@victoriajohn6693]

That was a prayer 🙏

[@marieharris1230]

I read this many years ago. I realize lately that I’ve read hundreds of the very greatest mystical literature.

[@crystalclearice]

I am wholeheartedly happy, Nothing & nowhere.

[@tiffanyjoleenbowserdimeco6294]

Absolutely stunning.💕 I had a spontaneous awakening experience almost 2 years ago and the internet and places like this🙏🏽☝️ helped me and continue to help as it deepens and I lovingly say goodbye to who I thought I was. The beauty and mystery of reality brings tears to my recently clear vision almost daily. I never dreamed humanity already IS what we all long for so desperately.

[@JH-bf6qy]

If YOU had an experience, it for sure was not an awakening!

[@silverlake973]

​@@JH-bf6qydon't get trapped by neo-vedantic semantics. If someone communicates without saying 'I' they will sound a bit odd.

[@rebeccablossom9823]

@@JH-bf6qyshe can have a spiritual realisation or deepening. That’s hers. The Lord is for all souls. The lord responds in a covered way with his bhaktas.

[@youtootubetube]

Thank you for your channel. It is a beautiful contribution to the world, and listening to your voice on a daily basis helps me to cultivate wisdom and faith in my life. Thank you.

[@ahmednasser9962]

Thank you. I’m truly grateful for finding your channel. It’s helped so much during these challenging times. You have become an integral part of my morning and night meditation sessions. God bless you 🙏

[@miriambenghanem6815]

Love Just Love ❤

[@chromakey84]

Another day and another blessing to have you in my life oh blessed jayasara. You have enriched my life more than I can communicate to you, please know that.

[@jannie6359]

"Forget the world". I have been pondering this direction that was given here.

[@pettiprue]

A short word that has always spoken to me is "yes".

[@lisafair8168]

In Humble Gratitude 🙏💕🙏

[@Spirituallove2000AD]

Crying just crying every cell in my body resonating. Just pure yes yes yes! Thankyou for your blessed work changing life for me in turn changing life for the world ❤

[@Mika-El-]

Gloria in excelsis Deo! ❤️‍🔥

[@ramyafennell4615]

Thank you so much for this very beautiful rendition. I read this years ago and had an intuition to go back to it. Every sentence hits the mark for me now. You have helped me find the depth that I was stumbling towards.

[@juliesheard2122]

Thankyou so much for this beautiful reading. When I read the comments below I know I am one of many beautiful souls you have drawn together and my heart dances, dances, dances. Love is the very substance of the material. 💞💓🙏

[@SamuelLipscomb-bt1io]

Thank you. What a relief! How wonderful to listen to this simple humility after the intense complexity of dzogchen mahumadra. Wow.😊😊

[@oliviapeters8629]

In all my wonderings and wandering s of the heart, I always return to your voice reading scriptures and meditations. It is my solace and still point. Thank you

[@karinholgersson8168]

Thank you.❤ Absorbed this in the morning. Such a life - gift. Your work is a true gift vibrating through words, being silence.❤ Love Kiran

[@tavares_ferreira]

This instruction changed everything. There is no doubts, You are a blessing to mankind! Gratitude!

[@hariom-tn7ow]

Thank you so much for your beautiful offering to all of us and to the Divine. I so appreciate listening to these amazing spiritual works. You’ve read them with such love tenderness and beauty. I have told many suffering clients about your channel so that they can listen while they’re healing or transitioning. And I so appreciate the spaciousness that you give to the words and the meditations without any commercial breaks to disrupt the space created. May you be very blessed and may all that are listening Be blessed as well.

[@roberthotlzclaw9012]

One of my favorite Christian texts... Thank you 🙏✝️

[@bhaktimaddalena-nakedlife]

I think your channel with your voice is all it takes to Truth. It is only second to Silence. 🙏 My deepest gratitude and blessings.

[@drm54321]

Beautiful! Just absolutely beautiful. Tears of joy streamed down my face. Thank you so much Samaneri. You are an Angel.

[@hannahlily11]

Thank you for this, very much

[@bradrandel1408]

So love you blessings to all🦋🕊🌹

[@daveed63]

You are God sent, your message through your beautiful voice ❤🎉

[@khitishkakar5960]

Thank you Again !! God Bless You 💐💐

[@faqtum]

My humble love to you Jayazára is only a fraction of your inmense knowing and grace being shared with all of us. Thank you

[@art3nem]

God bless you and everyone who listens! Thank you from the bottom of my heart! May humanity’s eyes finally open beyond it’s narrow perception of religion and intellect. We are all one ☝️ and everything is now! 🙏

[@jannie6359]

Dear Friend, this one, and your reading of The Impersonal Life, this cold, windy new moon afternoon. Both are read so well. Sensitive and touching. I read the books but your spoken word is better! This Cloud of Unknowing..... is a premise thats easy to apply. Till i forget. Again, i forget and want to remember. Again.

[@Fastinsilence]

As I look within and let all fall away,there is no perfect reflection to be found, I am not looking in at all, but out, I am that truth which binds all things.

[@h.tucker2285]

Omg! I have this book at home! To hear your sweet voice read it is amazing! I don't know if you ever read all the comments, but could you do some readings of some of Rilke's stuff? I adore him & I'd love to hear him read by you.

[@timotheus_the_magician3599]

Thank you so so much for doing all of this. These truths will be carried on in our hearts for many years to come. Many blessings to you, thank you 🙏

[@eladauk6678]

God ❤️

[@kyliemartin8524]

Thank you. I love you in my life.

[@Lookwithin77777]

Thank you dear One 🙏🏼❤️

[@peggyscholliers]

Love and beauty beyond words. Pure grace. ❤🙏 Thank you for this precious gift.

[@user-pz1kg8ny7g]

❤❤❤ Hare Krišna 💓🍁🦋🌍🪻🌼🪔🎉

[@Dreamingawake15253]

So happy and grateful for this. Thank you!!!

[@mokshajetley9244]

Pranaam sister. Stay blessed 💞

[@yozenga]

Beautiful, all I can say is beautiful. You are so uniquely skillfully refined in your narrations a true expression of Divinity.

[@sangeetakar8599]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏

[@paxonearth]

Another fantastic Christian "mystical" book is Anthony DeMello's "The Way to Love."

[@user-rz3iz5ly9z]

Thanks you pinned Sameneri Jayasara teaching 🙏💌

[@marynatani7300]

Love you ❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@lashivanaty6804]

Such gift 🙏 Gratitude and Blessings.

[@sleepycat224]

Learned about this way of praying many years ago by the Dominicans . Have the book as well. This way of contemplating is so effective, but it takes time. Listen to the Trappist Thomas Merton. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@bobcox231]

As an eternal dancer with Buddha and God I humbly request that some readings of Pema Choden be offered. Thank you

[@drlakshmilavanyaalapati7098]

🙏🙏🙏😊

[@jannie6359]

Another jewel..... speaks of Love. Well, i Love this reading by Anonomyous. Love it.😊

[@kathyryan7611]

💖💖💖

[@tiago.szaupamelchizedeck3771]

your gift is a blessing to all sentient beings. I cant think of a more noble service to all then this what you are. thank you for everything and every second of your time here with us. and please leave a donation button or a link for us to contribute to your sangha. we love you ❤🌹🌻

[@Brittle_buddha]

Thank you so much for this gift ❤

[@jerryyslas6674]

I need your voice and vibe in my life

[@dmichael2697]

🙏 ohmmmm Namaste

[@justiceforallcreation]

Thank you for this. I was hoping you would eventually do the Cloud. Perhaps for your next reading you could do the "Practice of the Presence of God" by Brother Lawrence.

[@victoriajohn6693]

I love Brother Lawrence

[@rockstone2939]

Holy of Holy's ♨

[@learnatradecommercialequip2869]

I am truly grateful for this thank you ! 🙏

[@royalbluenun1128]

Amen. Alleluia.❤❤❤.

[@Ilstube1]

Thank you! 🙏

[@camillapalmer82]

Wow. This is so beautiful. A balm for my soul. Thank you ❤

[@jannie6359]

Dear Friend, i keep finding these shared jewels. This one..... touches me so deeply. Its a treasure.

[@swadenashville]

Stunning.

[@GripMasterFlex]

No way you just posted “Cloud of unknowing”…. God bless you ❤️‍🔥

[@N2MTness]

I know how you feel. Mind can be a tornado, sucking in everything we take ourselves to be.

[@deankrupka9398]

This is the first “spiritual” book I read. Set me down a beautiful path

[@cecilyfrancis7759]

It's very impressive and useful❤.

[@Imthat676]

Thanks

[@rebeccablossom9823]

🫶🏻❤🙇🏼‍♀️🙏🏻

[@jimtunney5371]

This is very helpful thanks

[@scottlutz2311]

"Love always deserves the peace it earns." How beautiful. This listen was simply stunning for me. Thank you so much.

[@royamiller9002]

❤❤❤love you ❤❤❤

[@jeanclapp3113]

Samaneri ----- I love your videos. I am wondering who chooses the music? It is so beautiful! Do you speak while the background music is playing? You introduced me to Kabir and I am so grateful. Your voice alone resonates with love and empathy. Thank you so much.

[@roblaccitello3140]

🙏

[@carterwood129]

Wow

[@cella8641]

❤❤❤

[@irisstumpf9732]

🙏🙏🙏

[@Omar-si9gb]

Can I listen to this while I am about to sleep. Can't meditate for an hour yet.

[@nigelconsiglio2546]

Of course! Our meditation is to understand who we are already, what we've always been, and that which you are now. Don't worry about meditation, just rest into your natural state, just as you are. What you essentially are is perfect already. And there's a lovely, and true, expression, "meditation is what we are, not what we do". Much peace (Isn't this recording above wonderful too)

[@Omar-si9gb]

@@nigelconsiglio2546 Thank you so much for this. Meditation is wht we are, not what we do. Actually, one can be meditative in so many states across all functions. Thank you for reminding me of this.

[@battlecore501]

If I could make one suggestion. As I also have not reached the ability to meditate for an hr yet. A useful tool could be to use this for meditation however often you'd like and each time try and go a tiny bit further into it. I have found this technique useful in my workouts. I don't do a certain amount of reps. I don't each exercise for 1 min. Progress is measured by each week being able to do more reps within each minute . Little steps.

[@Omar-si9gb]

@@battlecore501 That's a solid advice too. I definitely will want to get to an hr and more, baby steps is needed for sure. The goal is to keep chipping away at it.

[@lencoller6477]

It's not important to meditate for long periods.what is important is to do it effortlessly,more you try the less chance of success. This advice is offered to you with love only ❤ Good luck on your journey.

[@sven888]

It is interesting that the word UNKNOWING is composed of UN meaning ONE and KNOWING.

[@vitormanuelfreitas2461]

💜🙏💜

[@gordontaylor1670]

❤

[@dmichael2697]

🙏 ohmmmm Namaste (year later)

[@billyschonewitz3384]

❤ IF I COULD GIVE THIS 5 👍 I WOULD 📣🥰

[@mk-ue9tx]

🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@stelkorable]

Drear zane , you can't atain what you already have , you can only realise its always

[@unkolawdio]

Ok

[@terrenceburton7903]

🕉️🌈🕉️🌈🕉️🌈🕉️🌈🕉️🌈🕉️🌈💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

[@nina549]

Thank you so much this is exacly what i need at this point. One question. I have memory problems which i been working at but just the statement ---forget everything ---- it's against what i'm trying to accomplish with my mind. "Ignore" maybe sounds better for now?? Thanks thanks thanks ❤

[@SamaneriJayasara]

If you empty your mind and forget everything during your times of deep contemplation, you may find that your memory in daily life naturally improves with no great effort on your part. The mind grows bright, energetic and healthy from these times of quietude and "forgetting". 💗✝️

[@nina549]

I like emptying...can't use forgetting

[@pierrebuti3257]

Sacred and Secret

[@johneleven25]

'To abandon all concepts of God" Knowing the horrible concepts of God in mainline Christianity in the middle ages and even today no wonder the carageous mystics had to break out of that tomb of concepts and start the search again as an empty vessel. ❤

[@gerrylouise2366]

just wonderful

[@vajraloka1]

I wonder why she says "dark awareness" ?

[@Axito2]

You could probably say also "clouded awareness" from god. But.. "There is only god playing itself" ❤

[@MW-greatteacher10]

The absence of "knowing" .. being incarnate in this 3D reality with a human brain is a limitation.. learning to surrender to this darkness and trusting with your heart rather than your intellect. I am a slave to intellect and ego. This is the cloud. Focusing on awareness and ignoring my thoughts is the only remedy.

[@mariaganesha]

thank you for providing this beautiful nourishment for mediation. i have a question regarding the content: in the second half of the recording it says: "..the desire to see and feel the Divine, as we can hear. this longing is true love, and love always desevers the peace it wins"....is true love not exclusively searching to please the Beloved and doesnt pay attention to my own desires and needs? is true love not forgetting myself and also mySelf completely and just exist to please the Beloved? this longing seems to be focussed on me and my own needs...🙏