LEARN TO LIVE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD

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MEXICO
FROM THE HEART
    We had the great honor to receive Father Laurence Freeman, the Director
    of The World Community for Christian Meditation in his second visit to
    Mexico.  It was a wonderful experience for all the people who participated
    to the conferences in Ixtapa, Malinalco and Mexico City.  We thank Father
    Laurence for his untiring work teaching this great discipline from the
    Christian tradition, which requires courage, perseverance and faith.

    We had 9 conferences with up to 60 people, most of them new meditators
    from Argentina, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico and United States who
    gathered together to learn about this discipline.

    Father Laurence talked about the different forms of prayer; he told us how
    do we enter into the presence of God through our daily commitment of
    meditation.  Meditation is a pilgrimage from the mind to the heart.  We
    learn to not only see God as an external Being, but we become aware of
    His presence in our heart.  He explained how the mind creates never-
    ending illusions and it does not know how to live in the present - it either
    escapes to the future or gets stuck in the past.  

    When we meditate we learn to be in the present.  We become aware of the
    constant movement of the mind, but little by little, as we walk, we learn
    how to concentrate in the mantra, the sacred word, that will take us to
    deeper levels of knowledge.  When we calm the mind, we reach the heart,
    where we learn to be in silence, in the eternal present of God´s reality.

    It was wonderful for all of us to become aware of the external noise that
    invades our culture.  During the conferences we were attacked by
    agressive noise like a bus engine, the traffic in Mexico City, the noise that
    we produce when we talk out loud or the non-stop noise produced by the
    tv or radio.  

    Nevertheless, the participants meditated in simplicity, faith and with an
    open spirit and gave their first steps to what we hope would be a disipline
    for the rest of our lives.

    Lucía Gayón and Begoña Siegrist
    Coordinators
    9-13 February 2007