The Inner Experience: Notes on ContemplationHarper Collins, 2012 M09 11 - 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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... clear that this book has no intention of solving anybody's problems, or of offering anybody an easy way out of his difficulties.At best it may help to bring a little reassurance to those whose difficulties are characteristically ...
... clear that this book in no sense aspires to be classified as “inspirational.”That is to say,it does not aim at making the reader feel good about certain spiritual opportunities which it claims, at the same time,to open up to him.Nor ...
... clear “Thou” at all.Perhaps even other people are merely extensions of the “I,”reflections of it, modifications of it, aspects of it. Perhaps for this “I” there is no clear distinction between itself and other objects: it may find ...
... clear that there is and can be no special planned technique for discovering and awakening one's inner self,because the inner self is, first of all, a spontaneity that is nothing if not free. Therefore there is no use in trying to start ...
... clearly set out that they provide an almost “clinically perfect” test case in the natural order. This is an account of satori,a spiritual enlightenment, a bursting open of the inner core of the spirit to reveal the inmost self.This ...
Contenido
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THREE Society and the Inner Self | 19 |
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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 |