The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780811205702
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This is quintessential Merton."--The Catholic Review.
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780811205702
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This is quintessential Merton."--The Catholic Review.
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780859690645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1999-01-12
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1441142460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Eastern religious traditions, especially the varieties of Buddhism, were the last great passion in Thomas Merton's life. His participation in a monastic conference in Asia led to his premature, accidental death. He discoursed on equal terms with the Dalai Lama, and extracts from their interviews appear in this book. The introduction brings together extracts from Merton's "Asian Journal" (Hinduism and varieties of Buddhism), and other short works on Eastern religions written in the last few years of his life. They all combine to demonstrate the breadth of vision that is such an integral part of Merton's lasting appeal, his quest for a deeper unity underlying apparent fragmentation. They might be regarded as steps toward the great book on monasticism that Merton might have written but never did. As they stand, they provide Merton's essential definitions of the religions that so interested him in the last years of his life, and of which he became a skilful Western interpreter.
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2010-07-27
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0811219720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners. "Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite--one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the 'nothing,' the 'no-body' that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey." This gets at the humor, paradox, and joy that one feels in Merton's discoveries of Zen during the last years of his life, a joy very much present in this collection of essays. Exploring the relationship between Christianity and Zen, especially through his dialogue with the great Zen teacher D.T. Suzuki, the book makes an excellent introduction to a comparative study of these two traditions, as well as giving the reader a strong taste of the mature Merton. Never does one feel him losing his own faith in these pages; rather one feels that faith getting deeply clarified and affirmed. Just as the body of "Zen" cannot be found by the scavengers, so too, Merton suggests, with the eternal truth of Christ.
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780811209311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses Blake, Joyce, Pasternak, Faulkner, Styron, O'Connor, Camus, symbolism, creativity, alienation, contemplation, and freedom.
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-09-14
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0062016784
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the election of a new Abbot at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton enters a period of unprecedented freedom, culminating in the opportunity to travel to California, Alaska, and finally the Far East – journeys that offer him new possibilities and causes for contemplation. In his last days at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton continues to follow the tumultuous events of the sixties, including the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy. In Southeast Asia, he meets the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist and Catholic monks and discovers a rare and rewarding kinship with each. The final year is full of excitement and great potential for Merton, making his accidental death in Bangkok, at the age of fifth-three, all the more tragic.
Author: Zhuangzi
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780811201032
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Free renderings of selections from the works of Chuang-tzŭ, taken from various translations.
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780811210386
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book contains the journal and letters Merton wrote during his Alaskan visit which were published in a limited edition in 1988 as The Alaskan Journal by Turkey Press.