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Chapter 1: What is metanoia and its purpose in meditation?
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Chapter 2: How can we recognize our failures in compassion and love?
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Chapter 3: What role does divine mercy play in our meditation practice?
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Chapter 4: What is the purpose of amendment in the context of metanoia?
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Chapter 5: How can we choose practical amendments for personal growth?
In our meditation today, we continue to walk the path of metanoia.
Chapter 6: What steps can we take to begin again in divine love?
This practice that allows us to turn towards the fullness of the light of divine presence in our life and in the world. Over the past number of episodes, considering this form of meditation, we have entered into what we call the examen. being aware of the movements, currents and undercurrents that exist behind every decision, behind every moment.
We have then come to the recognition of our need for mercy and compassion. And finally today we move into purposeful amendment. So let's begin. Sitting into the time of meditation, we do so gently, peacefully, with awareness, with intention. We take a moment to settle ourselves upon the chair, uncurling the spine so the breath is free and clear.
We allow the shoulders to drop, the neck to loosen, the jaw to unclench, the hands resting upon the lap. We take a moment to encounter our breath and to check in with the breath as we breathe in and breathe out. Aware of the breath as it moves in the body. As always, we let go of any tension that we might be holding.
Consciously aware that there will always be tense spots in our life and in our body. But for now, just breathing through those points, those areas. so that we might release them and let them go. Breathing in, we are aware that we are breathing in. Breathing out, we are aware that we are breathing out.
For a moment we dwell in the first step of metanoia, just checking in with our life as it is, perhaps asking ourselves if in the last 24 hours or so there was any way in which we failed to show compassion, love, or respect to those around us. or perhaps even to ourselves. All the while anchored in the breath, we do not enter narratives of explanation or of justification.
We simply, with honesty and openness, invite the divine grace of awareness to show us those areas in which we have failed towards ourselves or towards others. We can also take a moment to be aware of those times when we have shown compassion and love, when we have been patient and open to ourselves and to others. And aware of those moments we can give thanks.
All the while breathing in and breathing out. And moving then to the second stage of metanoia. bringing to mind again those areas where perhaps we have not shown compassion, love, respect. We can seek now the divine compassion, mercy and love that is always present, unconditional, eternal and infinite.
opening our heart that we might be healed in this moment where we did not show compassion or love or respect. May divine compassion, divine love enter in, heal, forgive, and renew. And for a moment simply dwell in the joy of knowing that we can always rest in divine love. That we can always receive divine compassion. That divine mercy waits, longing to pour itself out upon us.
All the while breathing in and breathing out. Breathing in and breathing out. And gently now we move to the third and final step of metanoia. This is the step we call the purpose of amendment.
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