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On Watchfulness and the Guarding of the Heart — Nikephoros the Monk
Philokalia, 1893 edition. Fresh translation from the Byzantine Greek. With analysis of structural parallels to Mahasi-style Theravāda practice.
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In Defence of Those Who Practise Holy Hesychia — Gregory Palamas
Philokalia, Volume IV. The Triads and Xanthopoulos: breath-following, the navel passage, and the “belly-souled” controversy. With analysis of parallels to Mahasi-style Theravāda practice.
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A Brief Interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer — Maximos the Confessor
Philokalia, Volume II. The seven gifts encoded in the Lord’s Prayer: theology, adoption, equality with the Angels, eternal life, impassibility, abolition of sin, deliverance from the evil one.
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Two Readings of the Lord’s Prayer — Maximos & Weil
A comparative reading: Maximos maps the cosmic content of the prayer; Weil describes its phenomenology. Both are right, and together they triangulate something neither captures alone.