Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205702
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"This is quintessential Merton."--The Catholic Review.
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205702
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"This is quintessential Merton."--The Catholic Review.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205702
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"This is quintessential Merton."--The Catholic Review.
The Asian Journal
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The Asian Journal of
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780859690645
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780859690645
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Thomas Merton
Author: Merton Merton
Publisher: Crossroad
ISBN: 9780824511241
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The author describes the reasons for his trip to Asia and reflects on the constrictions of the monastic life.
Publisher: Crossroad
ISBN: 9780824511241
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The author describes the reasons for his trip to Asia and reflects on the constrictions of the monastic life.
The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374513894
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Merton's journal, between the ages of 24-26, prior to entering the monastery.
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374513894
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Merton's journal, between the ages of 24-26, prior to entering the monastery.
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton ; Edited from His Original Notebooks by Naomi Burton, Brother Patrick Hart and James Laguhlin ; Consulting Editor: Amiya Chakravarty
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The Way of Chuang-Tzŭ
Author: Zhuangzi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201032
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Free renderings of selections from the works of Chuang-tzŭ, taken from various translations.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201032
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Free renderings of selections from the works of Chuang-tzŭ, taken from various translations.
Zen and the Birds of Appetite
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219720
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219720
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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.
The Other Side of the Mountain
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062016784
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
With the election of a new Abbot at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton enters a period of unprecedented freedom, culminating in the opportunity to travel to California, Alaska, and finally the Far East – journeys that offer him new possibilities and causes for contemplation. In his last days at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton continues to follow the tumultuous events of the sixties, including the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy. In Southeast Asia, he meets the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist and Catholic monks and discovers a rare and rewarding kinship with each. The final year is full of excitement and great potential for Merton, making his accidental death in Bangkok, at the age of fifth-three, all the more tragic.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062016784
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
With the election of a new Abbot at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton enters a period of unprecedented freedom, culminating in the opportunity to travel to California, Alaska, and finally the Far East – journeys that offer him new possibilities and causes for contemplation. In his last days at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton continues to follow the tumultuous events of the sixties, including the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy. In Southeast Asia, he meets the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist and Catholic monks and discovers a rare and rewarding kinship with each. The final year is full of excitement and great potential for Merton, making his accidental death in Bangkok, at the age of fifth-three, all the more tragic.