{"id":1709,"date":"2016-02-08T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T22:30:37","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"a8d4g-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a8d4g-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">\u00a0&#8220;\u2026 To start mastering noetic prayer you must constantly force yourself to save the prayer without ceasing. In the beginning quickly: nous must not have time for any distracting thoughts. Pay attention only to the words &#8220;Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me.&#8221; When the prayer is said orally for a long period of time nous becomes accustomed to it and eventually takes up saying it. Then it becomes sweet to you as if you had honey in your mouth and you want to keep saying it all the time.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"3tfio-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3tfio-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Elder Joseph the Hesychast in &#8216;Monastic Wisdom&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"3tfio-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_45m_ _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"3tfio-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3tfio-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/eldersMED.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1448\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/eldersMED-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"eldersMED\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/eldersMED-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/eldersMED-480x320.jpg 480w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/eldersMED.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;\u2026 To start mastering noetic prayer you must constantly force yourself to save the prayer without ceasing. In the beginning quickly: nous must not have time for any distracting thoughts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}