• Zen and the Birds of Appetite

  • De: Thomas Merton
  • Narrado por: Greg Chun
  • Duración: 4 h y 23 m
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De: Thomas Merton
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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 begins 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 that was 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 listener a strong taste of the mature Merton.

Never does one feel him losing his own faith; 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.

©1968 The Abbey of Gethsemani, Inc. (P)2019 New Directions Publishing Corp.

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Inspiring, informative, historical

It had me looking up locations on maps and fining links to historical detail. Wow!

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a great book for those with a Christian belief

this book was a great read, he drew a lot of parallels between Christianity and Buddhism. As a Freemason I got a lot out of this book as it draws a lot of parallels also with the Masonic teachings.

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