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of The Indian contribution to the Islamic mystical tradition (p. 210). But the particular
problem of erecting the Muslim breathing techniques is raised.
Preliminary cough ascetic meditation methods used by the Mon-jes hesychast present
point of contact with the techniques yogis mainly with pranayama. Here's how the Father
Irenaeus Hau-slierr summarizes the essence of the method of prayer hesychast "double
Comporta exercise, onfalopsia and indefinite repetition of the prayer of Jesus:" jSenor
Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me! "Sen -Tarsus in the dark, heads down,
staring in the middle of the belly, in other words, the navel, trying to discover there the
lu-gar of the heart, without pause, repeat this exercise, always accompanied by the same
invocation, following the rhythm of breaths, as slowly as possible, and with perseverance
in this mental prayer was over to find what was sought, the place of the heart, and with
and in all sorts of wonders and science "( Irenaeus Hau-Sherr, La Methode dOraison
Hesychaste, Orientalia Christiana, vol. IX, 2, Rome, 1927, p. 102).
Here is an excerpt from the solitario6 Niceforo (second half of the thirteenth century)
recently translated by Jean Gouillard (Petite Philocalie of priere du coeur, Paris, 1953, p.
204): "As for you, as I told you, sit down, focus your mind, enter it, "he re-spect to your
spirit-in the nose is the path that takes your breath to get to the heart. Push it, compel it to
descend to your co-razon while the intake air. When they arrived, really the subsequent
joy, you have nothing to regret. As the man who returned home after an absence does not
hide his joy of being able to find his wife and children, so the Spirit, once bound the soul,
overflows with unspeakable joy and pleasures. Brother's mine, usually because your mind
not to rush to get out of there. At first, you need encouragement, it's the least we can say,
to bear this confinement and the narrowing interiors. But once you have contracted the
habit, and not experience any pleasure in the external circuits. Because "the kingdom of
God is within us" and for anyone who is looking to this, the whole outside world
becomes vile and negligible. "
In the eighteenth century, doctrines and techniques were fa-family hesychast yet for the
monks of Athos. Here is some frag-ments Encheridion the Hagiorita Nicodemus: "... This
return of
6 The first witness, with date certain, the prayer of Jesus combined with breathing
techniques (Jean Gouillard, Petite Philocalie, pag. 185).
spirit, beginners should get used to making it as taught by the divine Parent-tioned
Fasting: bowing his head and chin support-ing high in the chest ... "(I. Hausherr, p. 107)."
Why is necessary to keep the breath in meditation. Because your spirit or the act of his
spirit from his youth are accustomed to des-parramarse and sensible things scattered
about the outside world because of this, when she prays this prayer, to not breathe
continuously as required by nature, but re-take your breath a little, until the word has said
the prayer inside once, and then her breathe, as the divine Fathers taught. Because, as a
result of this momentary retention of respiration, the heart is annoying and clingy and
experimented suffering by not receiving the necessary air to their nature, and for its part,
the spirit, thanks to this method is focus more easily and goes to the heart (...) Because
through this checkpoint-cion momentary breathing hard and thick heart-giie you love,
and the humidity of the heart, to be conveniently compressed and warmed, becomes
Consequently tender, sensitive, humble and more willing to shed tears of compunction
and easily (...) Because that short because of retention and the heart feels pain and
discomfort through the trouble and that suffering, the poisoned bait vomits pleasure and