A sunlit absence : silence, awareness, and contemplation / / by Martin Laird

• Autore: Laird M. S (Martin S.)
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 248.3/4
• Soggetto topico: Contemplation; Silence - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: hedgehogs and foxes -- Standing at the gate of the heart: on the practice of contemplation -- Our collection of videos -- The open porches of the mind: on silence and noise -- A sunlit absence: the light of awareness -- Sifted by boredom -- Creative disintegration: depression, panic, and awareness -- Sharp trials in the intellect -- "It don't work for me": prayers of petition and other practical problems.
• Sommario/riassunto: ""The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts,"" writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. ""Not a technique but a skill, it harnesses the winds of grace that lead us out into the liberating sea of silence."" In this companion volume to his bestselling Into the Silent Land, Laird focuses on a quality often overlooked by books on Christian meditation: a vast and flowing spaciousness that embraces both silence and sound, and transcends all subject/object dualisms. Drawing on the wisdom of great contemplatives from St. Augustine and St. Teresa of Avila to St. Hesychios, Simone
• Titolo autorizzato: A sunlit absence
• ISBN: 0-19-983151-3; 1-283-13648-1; 9786613136480; 0-19-970263-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820103303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II