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 | | Hesychasm is a traditional complex of practices embedded in the doctrine and practice of the Orthodox Church intended to purify the member of the Orthodox Church and to make him ready for an encounter with God that comes to him when and if God wants, through God's Grace. | | | By the 14th Century on Mt Athos the terms Hesychasm and Hesychast refer to the practice and to the practitioners of a method of mental ascesis that involves the use of the Jesus Prayer assisted by certain psychophysical techniques. | | | Mount Athos is a centre of the practice of Hesychasm. |
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| | Hesychasm then contains two elements, the belief that quietist contemplation is the highest occupation for men, and the assertion of real distinction between the divine essence and the divine operation. | | | In 1368 the seventh Synod of Constantinople (concerning this matter) under the Patriarch Philotheus (1364-1376: Callistus's successor) excommunicated the Barlaamite monk Prochorus Cydonius, confirmed the "Tomus" of 1351 as a "Faultless Canon of the true faith of Christians", and canonized Palamas as a Father and Doctor of the Church. | | | So by the end of the fourteenth century Hesychasm had become a dogma of the Orthodox Church. |
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| | The Hesychast Journey: Hesychasm: What is it? |
| | Hesychasm is a Greek word that refers to the state of profound stillness of mind, body, soul and especially spirit, that is brought about by unceasing prayer of the heart (the Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner"). |
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| | Hesychasm - An Introduction Courtesy of SeekersWay.org |
| | Hesychasm formed in the Eastern Christian churches during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. | | | Hesychasm involves a discipline of special breathing exercises, physical postures, and the continuous repetition of the Jesus Prayer as a means of obtaining an inner quiet that leads to inner visions. | | | It was given theological justification by Gregory Palamas (a fourteenth-century Byzantine saint), and was received as official doctrine of the Greek Orthodox church in 1351. |
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| | The renaissance of hesychasm in the fourteenth century was still in evidence in the late fifteenth century, as made evident in the influence Mount Athos had on the spirituality of St. Nil Sorskij during his stay from 1465-78. | | | The Kollyvades monks similarly disapproved of the Athonite tradition of infrequent communion.[110] According to one Kollyvades, St. Macarios of Corinth, this practice of infrequent communion violated Scripture, patristic teaching, and the ruling of Church synods which were all in favour of frequent communion. | | | Consequently, the existential spirituality of hesychasm - a spirituality which stressed the importance of experiencing the divine - became widespread throughout Eastern Christendom among monk and layperson alike. |
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http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/axismundi/2001/to_be_transformed_part2.php
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| | Culture in Late Byzantine Period |
| | Hesychasm was a conventional term to describe this method of prayer and contemplation by monks, which was designed to attain communication with God through internal quietude. | | | Thus, the term hesychasm was also used to refer to these religious and social conflicts of the 14th and 15th centuries in Byzantium. | | | Already in the works of the Church Fathers of the 4th and 5th century, "hesychia" meant a kind of prayer to God, through spiritual introspection. |
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| | Horujy S. |
| | The telos of Hesychasm, which is Theosis, means the participation in the Divine Being as a hypostatic and dialogical being, and this is an authentic Christian and patristic concept, radically different from the final spiritual states in Eastern practices. | | | It is recognized firmly that the Orthodox type of spirituality is represented quintessentially in the Orthodox ascetic school, that is, Hesychasm. | | | Spiritual practice is a mystico-ascetical practice, the unity of the mysticism and ascesis, in which the ascesis directs itself to the sphere of mystical experience and enters it, while mystical experience complements and completes the ascetic practice. |
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| | Thirdly, hesychasm refers to the theological exposition of the contemplation of God as proposed by Gregory Palamas in the 14th century and became the official doctrine of the Orthodox Church. | | | Secondly, hesychasm refers to the type of contemplation which developed with the Byzantine spirituality from the 10th to the 14th centuries. | | | The term comes from the Greek word meaning "tranquility." First, hesychasm refers to the spirituality which was characteristic of the early Church Fathers in the 4th and 5th centuries. |
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| | The psychology of passion and the practice of the “uninterrupted Jesus prayer” that is “memory of God” have been analyzed at the end of this chapter. | | | Spiritual and mystical phenomenon of the hesychasm is presented as an integral whole has been developing in the lap of the Eastern Orthodox Church. | | | The most profound aspect of anthropology of hesychasm is the notion of future of man. The meaning of human existence is not confined with the limits of temporary being — as all religions claim. |
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| | As the heart of the soul, the nous is also the eso anthropos or inner man in Hesychasm or the purusa or person in both Yoga and Buddhism. | | | As such, it is the eso ego or inner I in Hesychasm, the asmita or I-principle in Yoga, and the aham in Buddhism (Buddhism's notoriously famous doctrine of anatman does not deny the I, rather, it denies the Vedantic concept of atman, namely, that our self is identical with eternally unchanging Brahman or divine Spirit). | | | It is to these differences between Hesychasm, Buddhism, and Hindu Yoga that I now turn. |
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| | The term hesychasm is derived from hesychia; a word which denotes tranquillity, stillness, and concerted concentration.[10] As early as the fourth century, the term hesychia was used to describe the life of the desert monk as being one of interior silence and diligence in pursuit of communion with God. | | | At the heart of this monastic spirituality was the development of hesychasm as a means toward achieving an experience of the divine (theosis), and this development proved to be of immense importance in the history of the Orthodox Church. | | | Underlying this focus on ceaseless prayer was the assertion of the inherent unity of the human person, and as such, hesychasm emphasised the role of the body in prayer through posture and breathing exercises. |
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| | Theosophical Society in America |
| | As a result, hesychasm disappeared from Western culture but survived because the Orthodox church embraced and preserved this tradition of quiet meditation. | | | Hesychasm's roots extend back almost two thousand years to the beginnings of the Christian church. | | | One reason is that hesychastic texts preserved by the Orthodox Church were written in Greek or the languages of various eastern European countries. |
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http://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/questmagazine/marchapril2000/hesychasm
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| | THE PICTURE OF THE MODERN WORLD |
| | That is, in the domain of the Church, the dominant trend is, by and large, that shaped by Stephanos of Nicomedia, with whom St. Symeon the New Theologian disagreed. | | | In the 14th century, if it were not for the beneficial presence of St. Gregory Palamas, hesychasm might have been considered a heretical deviation from genuine church life according to the Gospel. | | | So, after confronting the persecutions and the heretics and delineating revealed Orthodox Faith, the Church battled with secularism which took the form of departure from the orthodox theological criteria of theology, of a loss of the true prerequisites of Orthodox Theology. |
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http://www.pelagia.org/htm/ar03.en.the_picture_of_the_modern_world.htm
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| | ORTHODOX PSYCHOTHERAPY Chapter 5 |
| | Gregory Palamas was not the introducer of hesychasm, but its exponent, the one who lived and expressed this whole holy journey of the soul. | | | But the Fathers understood hesychasm "neither as living like a recluse nor as distancing oneself in the desert, but as uninterrupted dwelling in God" (9). | | | Certainly, as we said before, the desert, and in general hesychia of the body, is helpful for attaining inner spiritual hesychia. |
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| | Hesychasm is opened to the eternity and even in this age it allows us to partake in the sacrament of the Divine Silence. | | | The ultimate goal of hesychasm is human transfiguration and theosis after the likeness of the risen Christ. | | | The masterpieces of the Christian art such as the Divine Hymns of St. Symeon New Theologian, the Icon of the Trinity by St. Andrey Rublev, and many others, were a result of partaking in the Divine Life through a practice of hesychasm. |
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| | Book Review: Orthodox Psychotherapy |
| | Hesychasm, rather than a facet of Orthodox theology, is presented as the embodiment of its sacred tradition. | | | This observation accounts for the historical proliferation of unordained celebrated as spiritual teachers and addresses the lament that the age of the post-Patristic starets is passed and with it the age of hesychasm. | | | Fears that a resurgence of hesychasm could collapse the Church into isolated worshippers confined to their icon corners are dismissed as unfounded. |
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| | Talk:Hesychasm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It cannot be emphasized strongly enough that Hesychasm is an Orthodox practice and that the texts make certain basic unspoken assumptions about the Hesychast, for example that he is a member of the Orthodox Church and that he regularly attends the Orthodox mysteries (sacraments). | | | As far as I know, this is not part of Orthodox doctrine but is either a syncretistic theosophical misinterpretation of Hesychasm or something dreamed up by some Western comparative religions undergrad. | | | The second work called the Philokalia is a collection of texts on prayer first made by St Makarios of Corinth and completed by St Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain in the 18th Century, and repeated by other hands at other dates in other countries. |
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| | St. Pachomius Library |
| | Hesychasm is also called the prayer of the heart because the constant awareness of God joins mind and heart; the repetition of the Jesus prayer ceases to be a conscious mental activity and becomes as autonomic as one's heartbeat. | | | A spiritual discipline that prepares the body and soul for union with God, hesychasm, if followed correctly, conquers the passions. | | | Hesychasts also control their breathing while praying so that body and soul are united in prayer. |
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Hesychasm: Selected Readings |
| | In sum, there is not one definition of "Hesychasm", rather a variety of meanings related to mystical prayer, Palamite theology, Byzantine politics and later Orthodox and monastic aesthetics. | | | So in the widest perspective "Hesychasm" can be seen as the mystical aesthetic of the Orthodox church in its later Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods. | | | In effect this made the church stronger: and this same monastic, or Hesychast, party was responsible, at least if you take John Meyendorff's position, for pushing the spread of Orthodoxy in the Slavic world, along with its particular theology of prayer, and prayer directed at mystical experience. |
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| | Editura TRINITAS - The International Symposium "Enlightenment and Hesychasm" |
| | In the Romanian Provinces the hesychasm has a rich tradition in harmony with the great Byzantine tradition, being lived not only in monasteries, but also in the social, cultural and artistic life. | | | - hesychasm is a long phenomenon in the life of the Church, following the originator tradition of the Holy Fathers. | | | The discussions underlined the various aspects regarding the evolution of the relationships between enlightenment and hesychasm in the life of the Church, from irreconcilable contradiction towards constructive dialog: |
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| | Eastern Orthodoxy and The Urantia Book |
| | Gregory the Theologian regarded hesychasm as essential for attaining communion with God. | | | Hesychasm evolved directly out of the "desert" tradition of the earliest Christian anchorites of the fourth century in Egypt and Syria. | | | Many of your brethren have minds which accept the theory of God while they spiritually fail to realize the presence of God....It is not so important that you should know about the fact of God as that you should increasingly grow in the ability to feel the presence of God. |
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| | Beliefnet.com |
| | Hesychasm refers to the practice of repeating the Jesus Prayer which you can find described very well on | | | I was looking for information on Christian meditation systems when I came across something called "hesychasm" in the Orthodox Church. | | | This link compares Buddhism and Hesychasm and I hope you find it useful. |
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| | Spiritual Warfare Forum: The Jesus Prayer |
| | Quoting from the Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encyclopedia, "...hesychasm is a method of interior prayer of the spirit characterized by a conscious and constant attitude and awareness of the Presence of God, a style of uninterrupted prayer as regular as the beating of the heart or breathing." | | | This method of prayer is very ancient in the Eastern Church and was handed down by word of mouth for many centuries. | | | The Jesus Prayer comes from an Eastern Catholic and Orthodox tradition of Hesychasm. |
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| | Thomas Merton books ; Thomas Merton - Merton and Hesychasm , The Prayer of the Heart ; The Eastern Church edited by ... |
| | His writing on Hesychasm, the practices surrounding the Prayer of Jesus (that have as their aim preparing the spiritual seeker for union with the Godhead) are of particular contemporary importance. | | | James Cutsinger The Ladder of the Divine Ascent: The Yoga of Hesychasm | | | Following the best-seller, Merton and Sufism, the Untold Story, a complete compendium of materials revealing the king of spiritual nourishment Merton gained from Islam and his profound friendship with the Muslims, Merton and Hesychasm: The Prayer of the Heart brings to light what inspired the monk’s captivation with the Oriental mystic tradition. |
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| | Hesychasm and Book of Job and distress and loss and theosis and union |
| | Hesychasm's understanding of the steps or stages in the spiritual life has an immediate appeal to us. | | | But ultimately Hesychasm is unappealing to me because I am captivated by the vision and spiritual understanding of the Book of Job. | | | The Book of Job never lays out a three-step or a five-step or, really, an "any step" view of the spiritual life. |
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| | The intellectual confrontation of these two men would have profound effects on Byzantine theology from their time on, for Barlaam’s challenge forced the Byzantines to articulate and refine the patristic doctrines on which hesychasm, and "The Jesus Prayer," is based. | | | Gregory began to correspond with him and posed the question “but doesn’t God reveal himself?” Thus, in discounting the West’s faith in intellect, Barlaam discounted the East’s trust in mysticism. | | | Suddenly, in 1316, he decided to become a monk, and lived as one for thirty years. |
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| | In the East, hesychasm means a method of prayer characterized by a deep tranquility of the spirit, which is engaged in constant contemplation of God by invoking the name of Jesus. | | | There was no lack of tension with the Catholic viewpoint on certain aspects of this practice. | | | Some Byzantine Franciscans practice a spiritual discipline called hesychasm. |
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| | Hesychasm is a way to attain charity, love of God. | | | Hesychasm is a way of life centred on the search for hesychia. | | | Now that we have explained what might appear surprising in the Sayings and demonstrated their teaching method, it remains to speak of something very important for the spirituality of the Desert Fathers and which has had great influence on later times, especially in the Greek Church: hesychasm. |
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| | CyberCosmos1.htm |
| | The culture of hesychasm creates the apotheosis of meaning through deification: monastic "overload" when it occurs, is not a negative loss of meaning but is supremely positive--spiritual ecstatic union with God, participation in the total meaningfulness of the Uncreated Light. | | | Those who truly desire to live a monastic life find all talk troublesome, whether it is with people at large or with those living in the same way as themselves. | | | Would hesychasm also illuminate the potentialities and pitfalls of the cutting-edge concerns of cyberculture? |
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http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/CyberCosmos1.htm
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| | Hesychasm Library |
| | St Maximos of Kapsokalyvia and Fourteenth-Century Athonite Hesychasm, by KALLISTOS, Bishop of Diokleia | | | Hesychasm: Orthodox Spirituality Compared and Constrasted with Other Religious Traditions by Dr. Thomas Mether | | | The Glory of God Hidden in His Creatures, by Olivier L. Clément |
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| | Hesychasm - Summary |
| | Merton and Hesychasm: The Prayer of the Heart / the Eastern Church | | | In the zaduzbine (the monasteries) lived those who aspired to hesychasm and Hesychasm was understanding the world and man's life in it in a way that | | | TOP > RELIGION > Christianity : Orthodox Churches > Hesychasm. |
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| | Modern advanced Hesychasm — Buddhi yoga — Kriya yoga — Kundalini yoga — Sufism |
| | Modern advanced Hesychasm — Buddhi yoga — Kriya yoga — Kundalini yoga — Sufism | | | They initiated us into the supreme knowledge, including such spiritual directions as Hesychasm, Raja and Buddhi yoga, Kriya yoga, Kundalini yoga, Sufism. | | | During this time we were taught by many Divine Teachers including Jesus Christ, Krishna, Huang Di, Ptahotep, Babaji from Haidakhan, Sathya Sai Baba, Juan Matus and many Others. |
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| | Monachos.net Discussion Community: Palamas against hesychism? |
| | This attitude had radically changed at the end of 20th sentury which brought a revival of spiritual life and interest to Palamism and hesychasm in Russian Church. | | | If anything can be assumed from the stance of the mid 19th century Russian Church on "Palamism", it is that they were, if nothing else, the Church of the Seven Ecumenical Councils. | | | Another factor was a general decline in Orthodox spiritual life in 17-19 sentury Russia. |
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| | The Byzantine Forum: Hesychasm |
| | When I think about hesychasm, the dear monks who invented that system of meditation were trying to live a fuller union with God. | | | Even though I'm Roman Catholic and I haven't read the writings of St. Gregory of Palamas, I can still celebrate and use the highlights of that system (such as the Jesus prayer) to improve my own union with God and love of the neighbor. | | | It seems that we (not you three, I mean all of us) get so caught up in our systems for understanding the Truth that we a) overlook the primary importance of Truth itself (which is Jesus), and b) we pay insufficient attention to living the Truth in our lives and with our neighbor. |
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| | What Is Hesychasm? |
| | It is the striving to achieve hesychia and to advance then to cognition of God that formed this direction of the “Christian raja yoga” known as Hesychasm. | | | The most important feature and the highest value of this direction consisted in the fact that Hesychasts from the very beginning accepted the correct guiding line — realization of the Jesus Christ’s directions that one can develop love in oneself only through work with the spiritual heart. | | | But they brought faith and love to us… |
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http://www.religiousbook.net/Books/Online_books/Hs/What_Is_Hesychasm.html
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| | The adoption of hesychasm also signified the victory of the conservative Orthodox tradition during the first half of the 14th century and at the same time the rejection of the Latin Church and Western rationalism. | | | At a Council held at the palace of Blachernai in 1351, it was recognised as the official doctrine of the Greek Church, while its defender, Gregory Palamas, was honoured as a saint almost immediately after his death (+1357/58). | | | The controversy over hesychasm continued, nonetheless, and later, following the departure from Constantinople of |
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| | The methods of hesychasm (e.g., breathing-exercises, naval-gazing, verbal repetition) are homologous with Yogic and Tibetan techniques. | | | ii) I had asked what possible source of knowledge could ground the distinctive claims of hesychasm. | | | Hesychasm and theosis is true knowledge of God. |
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| | World Mysteries - Articles by Vladimir Antonov |
| | A base for preparation — internationally — the specialists on modern hesychasm who could assist then to other people in “opening” their spiritual hearts and spiritual growth on the principles and with help of the methods of spiritual ecology. | | | Hesychasts find it by means of particular methods, and also work on opening and growing the spiritual heart — the “organ” of spiritual love. | | | The word “hesychasm” (from Greek word “hesychia”) means inner calm. |
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| | New Catholic Dictionary: Hesychasm |
| | By the end of the 14th century, Hesychasm had become a dogma of the Orthodox Church and is so still. | | | Interest in the question gradually waned and although there was a faint echo of Hesychasm in the West, it never has achieved a following among Catholics. |
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| | BookkooB : Merton and Hesychasm - : Compare Book Prices |
| | Merton and Hesychasm: The Prayer of the Heart | | | Above you will see price and availability details for Merton and Hesychasm: The Prayer of the Heart by from the leading UK book stores. | | | BookkooB : Merton and Hesychasm - : Compare Book Prices |
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| | Practice of the Modern Hesychasm |
| | We heard from many prophets that in the spiritual life of our planet Russia will play a particularly outstanding role. | | | Practice of the Modern Hesychasm / About the Book |
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| | Maloney (1973) Russian hesychasm: The spirituality of Nil Sorskij |
| | Maloney (1973) Russian hesychasm: The spirituality of Nil Sorskij | | | To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box. |
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| | This dissertation disproves one of the primary assumptions regarding the period of the Second South Slavic Influence: that a highly ornate style--known as "word-weaving"--developed in Slavic literature during the fourteenth century as a direct result of the religious movement of Byzantine Hesychasm. | | | This dissertation compares the four vitae by Euthymius with other Slavic texts and selected Byzantine hagiographic texts spanning the period from the Early Desert Fathers through the post-Metaphrastic period. | | | The "Trnovo Literary School" of Patriarch Euthymius of Bulgaria has been claimed to be the center where Hesychasm first found its literary expression in the Slavic tradition. |
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| | The Way of Inner Silence, (April 2001) |
| | Its parallel can be found in other ideas related to spiritual evolution, such as detachment, freedom from desire, and inner peace. | | | Though particularly evident in the humility and inner grounding of the Christ, hesychasm is a universal concept. | | | This mysterious word can be translated as "inner tranquility" or "inner silence," and a complex psychological teaching and set of practices has grown up around it, involving some of the great figures of Eastern Christianity such as St. Gregory Palamas, John Cassian, and many others. |
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