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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... false self.And consequently another law of the contemplative life is that if you enter it with the set purpose of seeking contemplation,or worse still,happiness,you will find neither.For neither can be found unless it is first in some ...
... false exterior self to pieces and leaves nothing but “his original face,” his “original self before you were born,” [or, more technically, his “Buddha nature.”Whatever you want to call this real self—the purusha (spirit) of Hindu ...
... false self blown to smithereens, and with the fragments carried away as though by a sudden, happy cyclone.There sits Chao-pien himself, the same and yet utterly different, for it is the eternal Chao-pien, one with no familiar name,14 at ...
... false, exterior self is caught in all its naked nothingness and immediately dispelled as an illusion. Not only does it vanish, but it is seen never to have been there at all—a pure fiction, a mere shadow of passionate attachment and of ...
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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 |
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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 |