Dwelling in the Heart of Reality
D1S2 - I Am Who I Am, and the Hesychast Life
Lama Alan · Eva Natanya · 122 minutes · recorded January 1, 2020
Eva Natanya opens the Christian side of the dialogue with the question of being in the west and of consciousness in the east, then Moses at the burning bush and a name that was not the answer to a philosophical question. She sets out the apophatic and cataphatic ways of speaking about God, and introduces hesychasm, the life of stillness, silence and solitude. The practice is mindfulness of breathing at the nostrils, and we open into wonder that anything arises at all. Lama Alan presses her on obedience to a spiritual father who has gone astray.
Illness and pain Teacher and student Mindfulness of breathing