The Inner Experience: Notes on ContemplationHarper Collins, 2004 M05 25 - 192 páginas Now in paperback, revised and redesigned: This is Thomas Merton's last book, in which he draws on both Eastern and Western traditions to explore the hot topic of contemplation/meditation in depth and to show how we can practice true contemplation in everyday life. Never before published except as a series of articles (one per chapter) in an academic journal, this book on contemplation was revised by Merton shortly before his untimely death. The material bridges Merton's early work on Catholic monasticism, mysticism, and contemplation with his later writing on Eastern, especially Buddhist, traditions of meditation and spirituality. This book thus provides a comprehensive understanding of contemplation that draws on the best of Western and Eastern traditions. Merton was still tinkering with this book when he died; it was the book he struggled with most during his career as a writer. But now the Merton Legacy Trust and experts have determined that the book makes such a valuable contribution as his major comprehensive presentation of contemplation that they have allowed its publication.
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... FIRST HARPERCOLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED IN 2004 Designed by Kris Tobiassen Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request. ISBN 0–06–059362–8 (paperback) 04 05 06 07 08 ❖/RRD(H) 10 987654321 Table ...
... first in some sense renounced.And again, this means renouncing the illusory self that seeks to be “happy” and to find “fulfillment” (whatever that may mean) in contemplation.For the contemplative and spiritual self, the dormant ...
... first thing that you have to do, before you even start thinking about such a thing as contemplation,is to try to recover your basic natural unity, to reintegrate7 your compartmentalized being into a coordinated and simple whole and ...
... first of all, a spontaneity that is nothing if not free. Therefore there is no use in trying to start with a definition of the inner self, and then deducing from its essential properties some appropriate and infallible means of ...
... First of all,even before his satori Chao-pien is in a condition of tranquil recollection. [He is devoid of “thought.” He has entered into the “cloud of unknowing,” in which the mind is “pure” but by no means blank, passive, or inactive ...
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SEVEN Five Texts on Contemplative Prayer | 80 |
EIGHT The Paradox of the Illuminative Way | 89 |
The Teaching of St John of the Cross | 95 |
TEN Some Dangers | 101 |
FOURTEEN Problems of the Contemplative Life | 123 |
APPENDIX A References to The Inner Experience | 155 |
Index | 173 |
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The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
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The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |