Thomas Merton - Learn to Be Alone - A Meditation/Contemplation on Solitude - Christian Mystics

[@SamaneriJayasara]

This reading is dedicated to Mary from Canada (and to all who are alone). May you feel connected to the Divine whole dear Mary and may your inner peace, faith and trust flower even in the darkest and loneliest of times. Sending you much love and all blessings. 💚💜💛💙🧡 This is a revamped version of the earlier recording for improved audio quality.

[@joarcher2873]

Thankyou for these beautiful words Samaneri. Sending you and all who come to listen love and blessings.

[@premaroberts1546]

Lovely dedication. So kind 💜🙏🌈

[@marykashpoli646]

God's grace has led me to your readings Samaneri and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this dedication. Jennifer's poem below is most beautiful. I have hung it by my bed.

[@ariffnoor9765]

You're words always manage to gently touch my soul at the very deepest of places. Thank you...

[@kalliyoga]

Reading these comments and feeling this closeness to you all. Yogananda said his real family were those who loved God with all their heart. Needless to say perhaps that it is impossible to be alone? Our spirit guides(s) are here from birth, masters and teachers abide in wait for our call and angels flow in thi😅s divine field of infinite love and grace. Praise God they also like quiet ! So it is. And do all is well. Blessings for all!

[@ThatNiravGuy]

I've been in solitude as a hermit for 21 months... after losing my wife of 32 years, my business, and family during Covid. I have no friends or family. it's all part of my spiritual journey. I feel like I died two years ago, but my body still walks around this earth. I'm not happy. I'm not sad.... I simply AM. My contemplative practices envelops my entire life now. This meditation causes happy tears to flow down my face 🤍🕊️🤍🕊️🤍🕊️

[@VictorMartinez-mp2ml]

Solitude has been at center of my life. When I was a child I thought something was wrong with me. If I had known how to use it then maybe I wouldn't have struggled as I got older. Thank you God.

[@vitakrnac7236]

...and I remained speechless... this is the absolute beauty, content, interpretation and music....🙏

[@dorinases]

Thank you so much , it’s such a blessing for me to listen to Christian mysticism:)

[@mcconlogue1898]

Have loved Merton since a Catholic cathecism teacher told a young, rebellious, 14 year old to do a book report on a Merton biography. He spoke to me then, and he continues to do so 50 years later.

[@unmilagroencurso]

Gracias, soledad interior paz interior !

[@NoTimeforCool]

Every night I fall asleep with your videos. Thank you so much xxxx

[@Lizzy8668]

Thanks Again, Your Work Is One By One A Masterpiece, that helps soften the soul, and heal the heart 💜

[@asor8037]

This is pure gold, thank you 🙏

[@angryherbalgerbil]

This one was needed today... Thank you Samaneri! 🙏

[@rulamazigi5839]

Thank you so very much Samaneri - you don’t know how grateful I am 🙏🏼💖

[@garycox3841]

I love the universality of this channel. It clearly makes for Unity🙏❤️🙏💚🙏💛🙏🖤🙏💜🙏💙🙏🤎🙏🤍🙏🧡

[@maryamaidaros6848]

Thank you 🙏🏾 for your time and for your Amazing voice 🙌🏾❤️ I love listening to all of your readings

[@margaretfarquhar9567]

When I was a child in Scotland, I had a secret place at the end of high cliff in the tall grasses and I would sing to God" All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small" the Lord God loves them all. I liked being alone and now because I have come to know of you,I realize I have never really been alone. 🙏💜

[@bridgetleonard1185]

I listen to this many times to really let it sink in. Soulful and very deep❤

[@premaroberts1546]

Serene . . .sane . . . retreating into the sacred silence and solitude of one's heart. . . away from the madding crowd & in precious secrecy. Ahhh. Gratitude for one's life that allows this & those who have shown the way & held up the light. Love for one's fellow travellers. What a blessed life 🙏💜🌈

[@sudhaumapathy375]

MY SINCERE GRATITUDE TO SAMANERI JAYASARA FOR UPLOADING THIS REFLECTION ON CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER. MAY GOD BLESS YOU ABUNDANTLY

[@Devotionalpoet]

The reading with this beautiful music was perfectly sublime ❤️ thank you 🙏🏻

[@ghuyakalika]

These words are etched on my heart. ❤ There are some of your recordings that are forever etched on my heart. ❣ This is one of them. Divine intelligence flowing through your auspicious readings just like my tears flowing throughout this reading and remembering. Thank you for the reminder.

[@perry_123]

So beautiful Samaneri Solitude is not separation....How wonderful to hear these words and unite to all on the level of spirit . Many thanks to you dear sister.....

[@serenityamanda9040]

Thankyou! Always inwardly greatful as the power of your voice is such a pureness as a fresh mountain stream to simply point prior to the dream of consciousness.. 🙏🕉🙏

[@lisalazereyes]

No words...just heartfelt awe and wonder...❣️✨🙏

[@TrueSpiritualAwakening]

Will listen going to bed tonight, these teachings are such a blessings. 🙏

[@samdobson3422]

Thank you

[@arunatamang3783]

Thank you ,as it is the ultimate practice of being alone with the divinity of the universe as coming is alone and going out is also alone.

[@shyamverma9515]

MASTER Ji , Thanks for your DIVINE VIDEO on SPIRITUAL SOLITUDE. Very Encouraging for me to understand the PATH of SILENCE. 🎉🎉🙏🙏🎉🎉

[@blissom468]

That quote touched my heart. Thank you dear and thanks to the divine spirit's guidance. 🙏💚💖💝❤💜♥💛💟💙💗

[@meeraduttagupta6318]

This reading brought deep emotions at the heart centre. They brought waves of inner peace and stillness and a feeling of just staying still doing nothing . Sadhu 3x With metta

[@davidkay8618]

Could you please explain the term Sadhu 3x

[@meeraduttagupta6318]

@@davidkay8618 It means Excellent

[@drayboydog]

This is absolutely beautiful. From a very early age I craved solitude, wanted and needed nothing more. Parents, family, peers and schooling did their very best to dissuade me of this need with ridicule, humiliation and eventually violence, They never quite succeeded with their "conditioning" creating instead an angry depressed automaton that struggled for half a century. 5 years ago I had a vague premonition that the insanity that has gripped society for the last 12 months was on the horizon so I moved "off grid" into total isolation and solitude. Self sufficient and independent I've never been happier and at peace. Oh, I care about society and the ills they've brought upon themselves, just from a distance. My solitude is so valuable I've gone to extreme lengths to preserve it.

[@mikefoster5277]

I love solitude too, but presumably, one has to have saved up a certain amount of money in order to 'move off grid' and become fully self sufficient?

[@drayboydog]

@@mikefoster5277 It's not as expensive as you might think although a hefty redundancy payment helped. If you are in the UK look into "narrowboats".

[@lizafield9002]

Totally totally relate to every word of this. I had to "earn"/undergird the capacity solitude by having none at all thru caregiving years, work & no guilt-free boundaries, but complete exhaustion, desperation for contemplative space, & a surreal divine open door to saving a forest/field & living in it, last house on a dirt road in mountains, threw me in pure amazed disbelief into my lifelong dream of quiet space in nature, vast room for my lifelong tree nursery habit, & a life totally restoring wildlife habitat & diversity & catching up with the divine. Everyone wants to come visit. Nobody seems to understand anyone LOVING alone time.

[@lizafield9002]

Also, i don't see "society" as a "they." We all have part in it & can help earth & all beings. Last chapter of A Christmas Carol is my kind of role model.

[@richstureman4229]

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[@imaginaryuniverse632]

This is a nice meditation video. I found myself feeling as though I was in the different places and frames of mind that he wrote about. The pace of it let me find myself in these places and then hear the next words from these places. I think sin is very much the same as competition and the wages of competition are death because our actions are entirely predictable based on the world around us like when baking soda is in vinegar or when a couple of alpha males are in the presence of a damsel in "distress". We are exactly equal in the Spirit which is the only thing that is real. Everything else is an appearance of what is conceived in imagination. What is real is always the same. The infinite is found in the one by all the ways it can imagine itself to be different. A new puzzle put together in every moment with a gazillion different pieces give or take a bazillion. 🙏

[@snehasanskritmaternallove3087]

An incredibly beautiful masterpiece ❤❤❤❤❤

[@guynouri]

Amazing. “House of god”

[@tylercoyle7026]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@bbarbie105]

Beautiful music at the end.

[@danielm.taddeo2186]

Beautiful man. Thank you sister ox

[@chrislaro1396]

The ultimate distraction of solitude is, the nature of Self it’self. Simply being human is a disturbing truth n’ dark cave that is always at odds with true contentment.

[@beachcomberboz2902]

Merton is very easy on the ears...

[@jenn1967jenn1967]

many seem fallen through cracks of inhospitable domain yet spindly hope propels those that cower ..to remember.. Mary’s Flower Beautiful Mary Beloved’s Beloved Eternally Free Within the hearts of All We are Here Forgotten fragrance within the Wind Remember now our perfumed Presence Remember now our laughter’s Luminescence Just for this Moment ..remember.. We are Mary’s Flower

[@marykashpoli646]

I am so deeply touched by this poem Jennifer that I have printed it and hung it by my bed. It flows through God's grace in you. Thank you for this priceless gift.

[@tonygiannetto8490]

very beautiful and if I may Remember now.. ..is always Now..

[@jenn1967jenn1967]

Mary 🌼😊🌼 the Earth Laughs in Flowers 🌼😸🌼 and Heaven in Our Hearts 🌼💖🌼 with the Stillness of Night 🌼🌑🌼 as Dawn’s Resting Counterpart 🌼🌞🌼 🙏deepest peace to you dear friend🙏

[@jenn1967jenn1967]

Tony Giannetto 🌼🥰🌼

[@tonygiannetto8490]

just saw this. now is a part of k-now, which is a part of k-now-ledge

[@HigherSofia]

Hey Jayasara - very greatful for the precious teachings you make so easy and comfortable to digest. Thank you very much. I am wondering though, would you consider making a profile on spotify (or have someone do that for you) and upload to that platform as well, as a kind of podcast. For many of us, it is much easier to listen to these teachings while walking, working etc through the spotify app. You would reach a wider audience as well. I hope this sounds interesting to you.

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Hi there, I have done that already following numerous requests and suggestions and posted a message about it over a week ago that you must have not seen. Here is the link to the notice on my community page and the links to Spotify and the rest. With all good wishes kzbin.infocommunity

[@HigherSofia]

@@SamaneriJayasara Great! Thank you.

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[@whoguess678]

very intelligent... continuatuion with alan watts

[@sawtoothiandi]

it struck me, to shower praise upon the divine is itself an imposition in that it supposes the divine requires our supplication, suffers a lack, i guess we do it, when we do, merely to express an out flowing of gratitude

[@4LayersOfStrength]

Peaceful and most necessary teachings. Interrupted by "KFC... Shut up and take my money!"💡 Well done KZbin 🤣

[@SamaneriJayasara]

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[@simonjones6128]

The art of simple beingness is the language of silence. Stop using word's and listen and you will hear.

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[@1970uma]

I am paraphrasing a bit here but I heard something to this effect.. "There can be contemplation only when there is silence.. " could someone elaborate a bit more what this means 🙏🏼🤔 I shall listen to this one again.. not sure if I caught the overall message rite :) summaries are welcome

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Hi Uma, it is actually saying: "There can be no contemplation where there is no secret." (16.29 min) This is a profound and subtle point that Merton is alluding to here. In my understanding, he is indicating that the truest form of contemplation and meditation happens in silence, where the ego is dissolved, and there is no motivation, ambition, or intention to reveal, claim, cling to, or "discuss" the experiences or insights that arise at the depths of one's interior. This is the 'secret' and the mystery that he is pointing to. For him, it was always his personal and impersonal relationship to an interior God that drove him to seek silence, solitude and stillness - and this is where one touches on that secret or unfathomable mystery. As Merton states, "For the contemplative there is no cogito ("I think") and no ergo ("therefore") but only SUM, I Am. Not in the sense of a futile assertion of our individuality as ultimately real, but in the humble realization of our mysterious being in whom God dwells."

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Wow❣️❣️ silently, deeply profound❣️❣️🌹 thank you❣️🌹☮️​@@SamaneriJayasara

[@romaoesteves9744]

If you have the intention to start seeking silence, invest the daily time and silence will seek you back as well. Don't try to comprehend it. Contemplation itself will bring it's own understanding.

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