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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... things right for us here and now.They want us,at all costs, to be inspired, uplifted.They fret over our distressing tendencies to see the dark side of modern life, because they are able to imagine that it has a light side somewhere ...
... thing whether it fits in with your plans3 or not. In that event, just read it. Do not watch for the results, for they will already have been produced long before you will be capable of seeing them. And pray for me, because from now on ...
... thing.”It is not reached and coaxed forth from hiding by any process under the sun, including meditation.All that we can do with any spiritual discipline is produce within ourselves something of the silence,the humility,the detachment ...
... thing that is most helpful about this example is that it makes no claims whatever to be supernatural or mystical. Zen is, in a sense, antimysti- cal.4 Hence it permits us to observe the natural working of the inner self.In fact,the ...
... things to be quite otherworldly and ethereal. But that is precisely what makes it incomparable for our purpose. Suzuki, incidentally, with his usual love of irony,capitalizes on the dry, unsentimental humor of the experience to contrast ...
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 |