A contemporary discussion of differences between meditatio and contemplatio is available in Father Thomas Keating's book on contemplative centering prayer, Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel (1986) ISBN 0-8264-0696-3. Brief descriptions of centering prayer and lectio divina are available online at http://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/.
[2] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive), Patanjali, Yoga Sutras
kielitoimistonsanakirja.fi
mietiskellä.Kielitoimiston sanakirja. Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus, 2024.
newadvent.org
"Contemplation", Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent. Retrieved March 19, 2008.
pelagia.org
Stillness of the body is a limiting of the body. "The beginning of hesychia is godly rest" (3). The intermediate stage is that of "illuminating power and vision; and the end is ecstasy or rapture of the nous towards God" (4). St. John of the Ladder, referring to outward, bodily stillness, writes: "The lover of stillness keeps his mouth shut" (5). But it is not only those called neptic Fathers who mention and describe the holy atmosphere of hesychia, it is also those known as "social". Actually in the Orthodox tradition there is no direct opposition between theoria and praxis, nor between the neptic and social Fathers. The neptics are eminently social and those in community are unimaginably neptic.
Orthodox Psychotherapy Section on Stillness and Prayer
http://www.pelagia.org/htm/b02.en.orthodox_psychotherapy.05.htm (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)
Stillness of the body is a limiting of the body. "The beginning of hesychia is godly rest" (3). The intermediate stage is that of "illuminating power and vision; and the end is ecstasy or rapture of the nous towards God" (4). St. John of the Ladder, referring to outward, bodily stillness, writes: "The lover of stillness keeps his mouth shut" (5). But it is not only those called neptic Fathers who mention and describe the holy atmosphere of hesychia, it is also those known as "social". Actually in the Orthodox tradition there is no direct opposition between theoria and praxis, nor between the neptic and social Fathers. The neptics are eminently social and those in community are unimaginably neptic.
Orthodox Psychotherapy Section on Stillness and Prayer
http://www.pelagia.org/htm/b02.en.orthodox_psychotherapy.05.htm (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)
[2] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive), Patanjali, Yoga Sutras
