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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... 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.
... or not makes little difference), you will perhaps not only read the book with a kind of obscure awareness that it is meant for you, but you may even find yourself having to read the thing whether it fits in with your plans3 or not.
It is a life that cannot be held and studied as object, because it is not “a 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 ...
The 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.
... And lo,there sits the old man in all his homeliness.10 As an example of spiritual experience this is likely to perplex and even to scandalize those who expect all such things to be quite otherworldly and ethereal.
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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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