St. Paul says we don´t know how to pray, but the Spirit prays within us (Romans 8:26).

We learn to pray not by trying to pray, but by giving up or letting go of our trying. And instead, learning to be.

This paves the way for prayer of the heart, where we can find "the love of God flooding our inmost heart through the Holy Spirit given to us by Him"(Romans 6:5).

This is pure experience, beyond thought, dogma and imagination.

Meditation is an universal spiritual practice that leads us to the prayer of Christ. It leads us to silence, stillness and simplicity.

As Christians, we meditate because we believe in the risen Christ, that he lives and lives within us. As disciples of Jesus, the Teacher within, we have faith when he calls us to put aside the concerns of the ego and to follow him into the Kingdom of God, to “share in the very being of God."

Meditation has to do with being in relationship with Jesus. Jesus knew that he was both from and of the Father, who was in him. This self-awareness of Jesus leads us to recognize ourselves as temples of the Holy Spirit. We understand that we do not need to seek Jesus because Jesus has already found us. We do not choose, we are chosen.

It is our faith that makes our meditation Christian, being focused on the human consciousness of Jesus, in our inner being.

As Christians, we naturally meditate with other Christians, and our lives are guided and enriched in community by Scripture, the sacraments and the different ways of ministering to others in the love and compassion of the Spirit.

Jesus, by his life, death and resurrection, has opened up for us a way to God and by sending the Holy Spirit to us, he has become our way and our guide.

In meditation we look for the treasure within, we need to abandon everything to find it. It is "the hidden treasure in the field", as Jesus says in the parable of the Kingdom. We are called to experience Jesus in our life, in our spiritual journey and help pass on that tradition to others.

Meditation is not a way to trying to accomplish something, of wanting to get somewhere, or of twisting God’s arm, as it were: "Not my will be done but thine be done."

Meditation is about realizing, rather than acquiring. Realizing the indwelling presence of God, realizing what has already been achieved.

It´s about leaving the goals aside.

Jesus did not teach any particular method of prayer, but by what he says about prayer in the Sermon on the Mountain, we can see that meditation is entirely consistent with his teaching on prayer.

Prayer must be interior. Jesus told us to go to "our private room" to pray in the "secret place". The "private room" is a metaphor for the inner chamber of the heart. (Matthew 6:5-6).

Prayer is not about quantity, the amount  of "prayers" do not matter- but about quality - "attention." (Matthew 6:7-8).

Prayer is not first asking God for things, because "he knows what we need before we ask." (Matthew 6:8).