Mystics And Zen Masters
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Mystics and Zen Masters
Author | : Thomas Merton |
Publsiher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1999-11-29 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781429944007 |
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Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. "All these studies," wrote Merton, "are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the 'way' which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness."
Mystics and Zen Masters
Author | : Thomas Merton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:782241336 |
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Zen and the Birds of Appetite
Author | : Thomas Merton |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2010-07-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780811219723 |
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Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners. "Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite--one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the 'nothing,' the 'no-body' that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey." This gets at the humor, paradox, and joy that one feels in Merton's discoveries of Zen during the last years of his life, a joy very much present in this collection of essays. Exploring the relationship between Christianity and Zen, especially through his dialogue with the great Zen teacher D.T. Suzuki, the book makes an excellent introduction to a comparative study of these two traditions, as well as giving the reader a strong taste of the mature Merton. Never does one feel him losing his own faith in these pages; rather one feels that faith getting deeply clarified and affirmed. Just as the body of "Zen" cannot be found by the scavengers, so too, Merton suggests, with the eternal truth of Christ.
Mystics Masters Saints and Sages
Author | : Robert Ullman,Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman |
Publsiher | : Mango Media |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2001-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781609253158 |
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Commune with these thirty-four unique stories of the moment of enlightenment from ancient and modern masters, and find oneness and absolute freedom. From the Buddha’s experience under the Bodhi tree to Eckhart Tolle’s realization of the “power of now,” Mystics, Masters, Saints, and Sages brings together stories and writings on moments of spiritual enlightenment by ancient and modern masters. With selections from religious traditions including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Bahá’i, and Sufism, this collection provides a broad spectrum of spiritual awakenings throughout time. Read and be inspired by depictions of divine grace and self-realization from as close to the source as possible. With a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Praise for Mystics, Masters, Saints, and Sages “Sanctity, spiritual wisdom, and mysticism are universal, found in all traditions. The Ullmans have produced an inter-spiritual book exploring the fruit of this universal human development. It is a work of beauty, inspiration, and instruction, at once practical and useful for everyone’s inner journey.”— Wayne Teasdale, author of The Mystic Heart “This noble book is a treasury of transcendent realizations, attain through a variety of spiritual paths. May all who read it find the inspiration to practice fully their chosen path until its very pinnacle is reached.”— H. E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, author of Lord of the Dance: Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama
Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics
Author | : Marsha Sinetar |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Spiritual life |
ISBN | : 0809127733 |
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An organizational psychologist looks at the stories of ordinary people who choose a solitary lifestyle to find wholeness and self actualization.
When the Trees Say Nothing
Author | : Thomas Merton |
Publsiher | : Ave Maria Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781933495514 |
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First published in 2003 and now available in paperback to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Thomas Merton's birth, When the Trees Say Nothing has sold more than 60,000 copies and continually inspires readers with its unique collection of Merton's luminous writings on nature, arranged for reflection and meditation. Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk, author, poet, social commentator, and perhaps the most influential and widely published spiritual writer of the twentieth century. In When the Trees Say Nothing, editor Kathleen Deignan sheds new light on Merton by focusing on a neglected theme of his writing: the natural world as a manifestation of the divine. Drawing from Merton's voluminous writing on nature, Deignan has thematically assembled a collection of lucid, poetic reflections. Chapters on the four elements, the seasons, the Earth and its creatures, and the sun, moon, and stars provide brief passages from his diverse works that reveal the presence of God in creation.
Zen and the Kingdom of Heaven
Author | : Tom Chetwynd |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2001-03 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780861711871 |
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Using the teachings of Christ and the writings and stories of Christian spiritual masters, Chetwynd delves into the history of the tradition of meditation within Christianity. "Zen & the Kingdom of Heaven" offers provocative insights into the role of meditation in the East and the West.
Christian Zen
Author | : William Johnston |
Publsiher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0823218015 |
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When Christian Zen was first published in the early 1970's, it was reviewed enthusiastically in many parts of the world. A subsequent edition added new material from the author's experience. This latest edition, from Fordham University Press, includes a new Preface by the author and a letter to the author from the Christian mystic Thomas Merton, written shortly before Merton's untimely death. William Johnston presents a study of Zen meditation in the light of Christian mysticism.