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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... 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 learn to live as a unified human A PRELIMINARY WARNING 3.
... human person.8 This means that you have to bring back together the fragments of your distracted existence so that when you say “I,” there is really someone present to support the pronoun you have uttered. Reflect, sometimes, on the ...
... human speech— for instance,as the merging of two entities—one must always qualify:“No, not like that, not like that.”That is why, of course, Suzuki wants to make quite plain that nothing is really said in this event about union with ...
... human and earthly satisfaction, except what is willed by God or connected with His will.Short of this essential detachment, no one can hope to enter into his inmost depths and experience the awakening of that inner self that is the ...
... human expression, God and the soul seem to have but one single “I.”They are (by divine grace) as though one single person.They breathe and live and act as one.“Neither” of the “two”is seen as object. To anyone who has full awareness of ...
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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 |