Introduction to the Philokalia, Part 4: Absolute, Complete, Inner Stillness 

I pray daily now. On rising and before bed. It helps a lot with my nerves. 🙏

Thanks Father.

Thank you, Vladyka ☦️🙏🏻

Thank you! Listening, learning, praying in Washington state.

Hello Vladyka from Athens Greece. I have heard that the opposite virtue to envy is love.

...by the grace of God. That's the thing. 😭. I am so worried about finances. We are drowning in taxes. We work hard to stand still only. Old car, old house, still cannot make ends meet. Today chopping wood for a fríend. Monday taxes come out but no money to cover it. I feel so disappointed. We are honest. But we are financing wars abroad now.

0:07 Going through the motions, doing stuff but not really repenting. 0:37 Real Change is about Repentance. Transfigured by The Grace of God. 1:23 Striving for the Remembrance of God. Fighting against Passions and distractions that drag our attention to passions. - Pride - Lust - Gluttony 2:13 + The Publican exercised Humility - The Pharisee lauded his virtues, God didn’t bother to listen. 6:18 Every one of us is called to work on this. The Orthodox Christian Lifestyle. - It’s not dressing up like an 18th century peasant from wherever. 7:12 For each one of us, we need to find a way to + Pray 🙏🏼 + Keep Silence and Stillness (Hesychia) for a period some time 8:40 The Silence comes after we are able to overcome our passions. 9:25 + Forgiveness + Confession 9:50 The goal is to get to that place of Inner Stillness. 10:55 1. Do not react 2. Do not resent 3. Inner Stillness 11:47 You don’t have to be hurt by words. 12:07 You can have pain without suffering. 13:35 The value of Solitude 14:03 Benedictine Hermit Joseph. 15:17 Learn how to be watchful over yourself, to not let the passions take you away. 16:13 The Church is here to support this Inner Work. 16:42 + Stop Sinning 🛑 17:20 The Way The Coptics read The Psalter 18:17 How St Herman’s Church read’s The Psalter, 3 Khatisma’s a day. 19:02 Every Human Emotion Expressed! Anger Praise Mercy 20:15 Shapes how we conceptualize Spiritual Life. 21:02 Monastic Life hears The Psalter alot. 21:55 Temptations of The World 23:40 Back In The Day, (for 1800s Years), people lived in silence for the most part, without the busy sounds of the world today in the 2000s.) 26:46 The Nous 29:27 Orthodoxy Paradoxy 30:20 Jesus Prayer 🙏🏼 in a focused prayer 🙏🏼 ❤ 31:16 Focus on Intention. 31:51 ❤️ Love, Joy 33:00 distracted prayer is not good. Do your best to pray undistracted. 35:01 Expel worldly thoughts. 35:55 Remembrance of God’s Presence. 37:00 + Intention + Attention *Questions?* 38:00 Nous. 39:23 🙏🏼 + Remember God + Our Living Bond 41:10 Process 41:49 Greek Bishop Tallisos (spellcheck me) 42:21 Do not React Do Not Resent Keep Inner Stillness 44:05 “We don’t have 10 hours.” 44:17 my electronic leash 📱(I think that’s a spot on way of talking about iphones) 45:03 So what that Buddhists do it to. It’s a human focusing move. 45:28 Awareness Mindfulness Contemplation Inner Stillness God is NOT Santa Claus 46:49 In Awe 🫢 47:15 Learning how to focus. 48:00 “ just because the bird is flying outside doesn’t mean you have to reach out and grab him.” 48:24 + Watchfulness 💭👀 49:18 The Liturgy 50:00 Parallel

Thank you thank you thank you.

I don’t know if you’ll see this but one of the videos you said noetic prayer is an active receptivity to God. In another video you said passive receptivity. Which one is correct? I’m leaning towards passive but want to make sure if anyone can help. Thanks

How are we to know what energies are from God, and which are imposters? In the absence of spiritual fathers, how do we avoid being misled? Coming from a place of practicing stillness outside the Church (no idols, gurus, mantras), I'm fairly certain the lion's share of my experiences I believed to be from God were deceptions. This seems like a potentially dangerous path to attempt. St John of the Ladder states in the first chapter of his text, that for the average person living a simple, virtuous life in the world in communion with Christ and the Church, he is not far from heaven. Please forgive me, but how are we to proceed with caution and humility?

Do not react, do not resent, maintain inner stillness. David/writer of the Psalms does not sound as if he is not reacting and maintaining inner stillness. Please explain.

King Luke repentance Christ

Do you have anymore channels on youtube, I would love to watch them