In the Beginning

In the Beginning

John Main

Collected Talks VIII

In the Beginning is the eighth of eight sets of John Main’s collected talks. John Main teaches meditation as a simple but demanding discipline, and advises the beginner to simply begin, and persevere. All that matters is to be on the way and to be faithful to the daily practice.

CD1
1 Still A Beginner
2 The Sound of the Mantra
3 The Way of Enlightenment
4 Total Potential

CD2
1 Experience and Expansion
2 Purity of Heart
3 Our Inner Life and our Outer Life
4 Longing in the Heart

CD3
1 Questions
2 Wholly Present
3 The School of John Cassian
4 That Delicate Balance
5 Questions

CD4
1 Life as a Revelation
2 Infinite Vitality
3 Quies
4 Questions

CD5
1 The Prodigal Son
2 The Idea of Progress
3 The Purity of Prayer 4 Secure Base

CD6
1 Pure Action
2 Attention
3 The Way of Salvation
4 The Pilgrim
5 Questions

CD7
1 Beginning First Time Again
2 Fullness of Life
3 Seek after Truth

CD 8
1 Dispossession
2 Death and Resurrection
3 The Silence of Prayer