A Quiet Revolution

A quiet revolution:

it’s the most transformational of prayers, an interior technology by design it seems, the prayer of Saint Francis offers deep wisdom that’s absorbed by the soul and brought active to our lives. My first committed meditation practice was Passage Meditation, a contemplative method as advocated by Eknath Easwaran, an Indian scholar of English Literature teaching at Berkeley. He recommend memorizing a passage from a rich spiritual source and using that as the focus for training the mind, developing concentration and one-pointed attention, but more, absorbing the words deeply to the point that their wisdom becomes displayed through our daily actions. It’s a beautiful method of meditation, and the words he first offers for this practice is the Prayer of Saint Francis.

what I love about this is the promise of transformation, not by effort or a plan of self realization, but simply having these words absorbed so deeply that they’re an actual expression of who we most truly are. Really, it seems we’re not transformed so much as we are revealed, our inner light brought to surface and now allowed to shine to the world. I believe other forms of meditation offer this as well, but Passage Meditation is specific to this purpose and the Prayer of Saint Francis is a powerful tool for this design, a means of reaching a deep and meaningful silence that reveals the highest qualities of…