I’m going to complete the rest of the points I wanted to mention about the Praying issue. But just before I go on, where are the rest of you guys, why aren’t you commenting, where are you Fadi, you didn’t show up for 2 days, and you used to write to daily before that.
Any way let’s get back to the topic.
Brain whashing, a word that Miena mentioned 2 days, is it related to praying?
Till you what yes it is related, and it should be related. Let’s define first what is brain washing, it is the process of removing certain concepts from someone and yielding new ones. And this kind of change should occur during praying, especially meditation (elhazez). Our old concepts which is based on greedy, lusts, arrogance, hatred…should die and new concepts of love, giving, humpleness…should be born and this change occurs only in praying. So that the new concepts are not just known by us mentally but also based in our hearts moving every action we do.
It seems that I made the whole issue look suspicious, so would you please make it more clear?
I’ll try making it clearer in this paragraph. First when does brain washing occurs, it occurs when I put myself under the clout of certain text or someone. This why we have to do all our prayers based on biblical text, because it the only text which should have clout upon us. I express this situation, that we place ourselves under something and we allow it to reshape us. This why some of the fathers insist on basing meditations on biblical scripts and not even scripts written by saints. This why we should be above all the kind of text and teaching given to us except for the bible. I even consider the same concept with spiritual guiding, we should examine and discern everything before we put ourselves under it. I will go further here and add that we should examine and discern the ideas and thoughts we acquire during praying. Because ideas and thoughts are sometimes illusive. This is why we always here this expression discerning whenever we talk with someone with good spiritual experience.
I’ll try to write something soon about some kinds of brain washing we may suffer from in our lives, because I’ve a lot to say about it.
I just want to add something at the end, inspite of this complications, and sophisticated post I’d written, god is much more simple than this. He is not just simple he never leaves us.
He just needs our heart and needs our commitment for him and he will guide us through the path.
I’ll end this topic now, because I feel I cannot express what I want to say in the right way and this may lead to misunderstanding…On the hope of writing Part III.
