The Way of Unknowing

The Way of Unknowing

John Main

Collected Talks IV

The Way of Unknowing is the fourth of eight sets of John Main’s collected talks. Listening attentively to his voice prepares you for the silence and stillness of meditation. These talks were designed to introduce meditation to people for the first time, and also to encourage people already meditating to deepen their regular practice.

CD1
1 In Reverence in Your Hearts
2 The Two Silences of God
3 Renunciation of Our Selves
4 The Pole
5 Potential for ‘Being’

CD2
1 God is the Centre of my Soul
2 Growth in the Presence
3 Being and Existence
4 ‘Isness’

CD3
1 Distractions
2 Returning to our own Innocence
3 Child-like Simplicity
4 Beyond All Images
5 Beyond Isolation into Love

CD4
1 Actualization of Your Potential
2 Freedom for Being
3 The Discipline of Silence
4 Emptying Out All Images

CD5
1 The Mind of Christ
2 Wholly Open to the Prayer of Jesus
3 Sense of Oneness
4 Knowing

CD6
1 Mystery of Being
2 Reverence
3 Grounded in God
4 The Necessity for Stillness
5 Why is Meditation Difficult?

CD7
1 Meditation as Conversion
2 Eternal Youth
3 Worship in Spirit and in Truth
4 Wholehearted in Christ
5 The Incarnation of God

CD8
1 Thought, Feeling, Love
2 Questions and Responses
3 Religious Love
4 The Way that is Christ
5 Past, Future and the Present

CD9
1 Redeemed by Love
2 Contemplation and Action