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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... start thinking about such a thing as contemplation,is to try to recover your basic natural unity, to reintegrate7 your compartmentalized being into a coordinated and simple whole and learn to live as a unified human A PRELIMINARY WARNING 3.
... whole species. For then you are evidently aware of yourself as an individual subject,9 and not just as an object,10 or as a nameless unit in a multitude.It is true that for modern man even to be able to call himself by his own proper ...
... whole being in satori.When one reaches such a point,say the Zen masters, any fortuitous sound, word, or happening is likely to set off the explosion of “enlightenment” which consists in large part in the sudden, definitive integral ...
... whole incident is summarized, according to Chinese custom, in a four-line poem, and it has rightly become immortal: Devoid of thought, I sat quietly by the desk in my official room, With my fountain-mind undisturbed, as serene as water ...
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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 |