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Offline Gimli

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Do I commit a sin?
« on: January 13, 2013, 01:42:17 PM »
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    • Please excuse me if the question is in the wrong place, in case so, please remove to the place where it belongs, and also please excuse my English which is not the best.

    I try to follow the authentic traditional roman catholic way, but Im very new at this, but I know deep inside my heart that this is the true faith. Before I became a catholic I was very much into Buddhism, but a religion without a God, Jesus and sacraments just felt so empty. I have always been drawn to Catholicism and God guided me to the Holy mass. But during my time as a Buddhist we did a lot of mediation. Just sitting in silence and focusing on our breathing. Not to get attached to thought or feelings, just sit in calmness and silence without grasping ore chasing thoughts and so on, just let the mind be still and empty. Im a very restless person and this kind of meditation made a good impact on me. I became much more calmer and sincere. I would like to pick the mediation up again but is this wrong if I want to live like traditional roman catholic? When I meditated I did not contemplate God or anything, I was just present in the moment and in the Now. When I hade times of intense mediation I felt my prayer to God and my intercession becomes more clearer and direct.

    I would never learnt this meditation technic if it was not for my former days as a Buddhist. Can I keep it up or should I let go if I wanna live like a traditionalist? Please be frank
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    « Reply #1 on: January 13, 2013, 02:01:04 PM »
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    • Buddhist practices such as that are part of the New Age Movement and should be avoided at all costs. You can't mix Buddhism/New Age with Traditional Catholicism.

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    « Reply #2 on: January 13, 2013, 02:46:18 PM »
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    • there are hermits that have had the silence.  Saying rosary is a beautiful and true mediation, not like the emptiness.  But Catholics of the Traditional have this quiet in our churches and in monastaries if there are any left that are true to Our Lord.  St. Benedict was a hermit and many wanted a simple life and that order had 24 popes and 1,000 of bishops, cardinals and such, yet St. Benedict of the 500s who founded the order was never a priest.  Silence is important, to have that time with a True God.  If there is One God, and I believe there is one, then there can be only One True Faith.  That being the case and you know it is, then you can not be in idolatry. You can not love both.  You love one and hate the other.  

    I am catholic because I want the Precious Blood of Christ.  Some may say, I want the faith.  I must know what I am believing in and I must know that I need salvation.  Christ redeemed us, opened the gates to heaven, we must earn salvation by taking His Blood, because it is saving.  If not, then Christ came in vain. Why do you want emptiness!?  You need to be filled!  Take silence then what will fill you to fight evil of Satan.  Buddhist have nothing.  Just feeling?!  

    Go for more!
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    « Reply #3 on: January 13, 2013, 03:36:57 PM »
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    • Bhuddism denies the existense of God. So keep away from it. You put your soul in danger by continuing to use Bhuddism methods. You say that you felt it to be so empty. And of course it is.

    Emptiness is not a natural state for the mind of a human person. I believe that every Catholic who has ever tried to pray has the annoying intrusion of distractions flooding into his mind.  We try to fight these distractions, not by emptying our minds, but by filling them with thoughts of God.

    Thoughts of God can never be exhausted, as God has no limits. You ought to chose what is best suited to you as a meditation, and there is much to choose from, God being infinite. You could choose, for example te Stations of the Cross, the Holy Rosary, the Sacred Heart and all that is involved with that devotion.  You should take guidance from a trustworthy priest.
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    « Reply #4 on: January 13, 2013, 03:52:44 PM »
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    • Dear Nadir, songbird and servusspiritussanctis,
    I feel honored that you took your time answering me. Gratias vobis ago. I know you are right and I will have it mind. When I pray my daily Rosary I will finish it with an half an hour complete silence and contemplate the presence of our Lord. Does that sound better? Or do you have any pointers or methods you know that monastic order who lives with daily silence do? I heard that the trappists and cisterians have special meditation technics when they sit in silence. If you know anything about please let me know.

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    « Reply #5 on: January 13, 2013, 03:59:59 PM »
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    • Quote from: ServusSpiritusSancti
    Buddhist practices such as that are part of the New Age Movement and should be avoided at all costs. You can't mix Buddhism/New Age with Traditional Catholicism.



    Exactly, Servus.
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    « Reply #6 on: January 13, 2013, 04:02:32 PM »
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    • Also, Gimli, there is something else:

    Nadir and Songbird mention the emptiness of Buddhism.

    It is any emptiness than can cost you your soul.

    Become a traditional Catholic, and get you and your loved ones to Heaven.
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    « Reply #7 on: January 13, 2013, 04:04:33 PM »
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    • that is affirmative dear Sede Catholic.
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    « Reply #8 on: January 13, 2013, 04:06:58 PM »
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    • Dear Gimli, I just upvoted your post, and so I am therefore your first liker !!!!!!!

     :cheers:

    You will learn a lot about traditional Catholicsim if you stay on CathInfo.

    God Bless you, Gimli.

    Yours, Sede Catholic.
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    « Reply #9 on: January 13, 2013, 04:17:47 PM »
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    •  thank you so kindly my dear friend. yes, I will learn a lot. Besides from this forum I read and follow Tradition in action and fisheaters.
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    « Reply #10 on: January 13, 2013, 04:23:02 PM »
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    thank you so kindly my dear friend. yes, I will learn a lot. Besides from this forum I read and follow Tradition in action and fisheaters.


    If I may give you some additional advice, be careful about reading FishEaters. That forum has become very liberal.
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    « Reply #11 on: January 13, 2013, 04:28:44 PM »
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    • Roger that! Please forgive a newbie, I have a hunger for traditional and timeless catholicism I read most things on the internet that has something to with the true traditional faith.
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    « Reply #12 on: January 13, 2013, 04:55:19 PM »
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    thank you so kindly my dear friend. yes, I will learn a lot. Besides from this forum I read and follow Tradition in action and fisheaters.


    Dear Gimli,

    I am glad that you read the excellent Tadition in Action website.
    Most of their material is excellent.

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    « Reply #13 on: January 13, 2013, 04:56:44 PM »
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    thank you so kindly my dear friend. yes, I will learn a lot. Besides from this forum I read and follow Tradition in action and fisheaters.


    If I may give you some additional advice, be careful about reading FishEaters. That forum has become very liberal.


    Servus is correct, Gimli.
    Steer clear of FE. It mixes truth with error.
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    « Reply #14 on: January 13, 2013, 05:12:35 PM »
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    Dear Gimli,

    I am glad that you read the excellent Tadition in Action website.
    Most of their material is excellent.


    Thank you, and so so am I! Actually the tradition in action page is the best thing I have ever read in my life. It makes my faith so much stronger. My favorite part of the site is the "Culture page" were I as newly saved catholic can learn how to life as a catholic and how much beauty and nobility there is in the way of life as a traditional roman catholic. The culture page is so black and white and concrete. It do not leave you with doubts or grey zones and I need that. The culture page is full of love and authority, discipline and honoring of God. So I guess I read Tradition in action more than books about the saints, becouse at this point I need to learn more and I need the inspiring motivation and clear statements.  To push on through in the secular and degenerate modern world a new traditionalist needs positive motivation, and Tradition in action offers that with a warm heart and uncomprimising faith.
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