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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... depth, reality, and a certain incommunicability. But the depth of ordinary spiritual experience only gives us a derivative sense of the inner self. It reminds us of the forgotten levels of interiority in our spiritual nature,and of our ...
... depths of his silent being,to reveal his “original self,” or “suchness.”9 The whole incident is summarized, according to Chinese custom, in a four-line poem, and it has rightly become immortal: Devoid of thought, I sat quietly by the ...
... depths of the soul can be troubled with what he calls “natural impressions,” which are sense-bound and involved in temporal conflict.Penetration into the depths of our being is,then,a matter of liberation from the ordinary flow of ...
... depths and experience the awakening of that inner self that is the dwelling of God, His hiding place, His temple,His stronghold,and His image. The one who wants to know how to find God within himself receives the following answer from ...
... depths of our own being and releases us that we may voyage beyond ourselves to God,the mystical life culminates in an experience of the presence of God that is beyond all description, and which is only possible because the soul has been ...
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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 |
The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |