The Inner Experience: Notes on ContemplationNow 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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At such time it would be singularly unfeeling as well as dishonest for me to suggest that peace, joy, and happiness are easily found along that most arid stretch of man's spiritual pilgrimage: the life of contemplation.
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 does it pretend to remind anyone of a duty he has failed to perform or attempt ...
Sad is the case of that exterior self that imagines himself contemplative, and seeks to achieve contemplation as the fruit of planned effort and of spiritual ambition. He will assume varied attitudes, meditate on the inner significance ...
All that we can do with any spiritual discipline is produce within ourselves something of the silence,the humility,the detachment,the purity of heart, and the indifference which are required if the inner self is to make some shy ...
In fact,the chief spokesman for Zen today,D.T.Suzuki,goes to some pains to contrast this spiritual event with Christian mystical experience, laying stress on its “natural” character as a “purely psychological” phenomenon.
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Crítica de los usuarios - allenkeith - LibraryThingThis is a book not so much on the how of contemplative prayer but on what is contemplation. It is a thorough work on the topic from a person who made this very thing his life's vocation. Merton looks ... Leer comentario completo
The inner experience: notes on contemplation
Crítica de los usuarios - Not Available - Book VerdictA Trappist monk and prolific author, Merton (1915-68) was a pivotal figure in bringing Eastern mysticism to a wider audience in the West. He wrote the core of this book in 1948 (published as What Is ... Leer comentario completo
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 |
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The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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| Título | The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation |
| Autores | Thomas Merton, William H. Shannon |
| Editor | Harper Collins, 2012 |
| ISBN | 0062245082, 9780062245083 |
| Largo | 192 páginas |
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