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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... turns, when offered as a solution to common problems,into everybody's hell.This is one of the curious features of twentieth- century civilization,and of its discontents. Into the midst of this moral and emotional chaos,popular ...
... turn pain into pleasure and sorrow into joy because God is in His heaven and all's right with the world. At such time it would be singularly unfeeling as well as dishonest for me to suggest that peace, joy, and happiness are easily ...
... turn to some texts of the Rhenish Dominican mystic John Tauler.22 For him,the inner self,the inmost “I,”is the “ground”or “center” or “apex” of the soul.Trained in the tradition of Augustine,Tauler is,however,more concrete and less ...
... turning to God and a turning away from God's creatures—a blacking out of the visible in order to see the invisible.The two ideas are inseparable for him, and on their inseparability depend his inexorable logic and his pitiless ...
... turn away from exterior reality. It is not mere emptiness, or unconsciousness. On the contrary, if we imagine that our inmost self is purely and simply something in us that is completely out of contact with the world of exterior objects ...
Contenido
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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 |