Conjectures Of A Guilty Bystander

BY THOMAS MERTON
In this series of notes, opinions, and reflections kept since 1956, Thomas Merton examines some of the most urgent moral issues of the modern era.

Image 1968 368 PP. Paper

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New Seeds Of Contemplation

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BY THOMAS MERTON
Thomas Merton examines the contemplative life and experience. Full of insightful reflections on how one can seek, and find, nearness to God in the modern world.

Audiologos 1995 90 MIN. Audio

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The Way Of Chuang Tzu

BY THOMAS MERTON
Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of personal versions from his favorites among the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of the Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic historical spokesman for Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu (a legendary character known largely through Chuang Tzu's writings). Indeed it was because of Chuang Tzu and the other Taoist sages that Indian Buddhism was transformed, in China, into the unique vehicle we now call by its Japanese name - Zen. The Chinese sage abounds in wit, paradox, satire, and shattering insight into the true ground of being.

New Directions 1962 159 PP. Paper

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Zen And The Birds Of Appetite

BY THOMAS MERTON
"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.

A New Directions Book 1968 144 PP. Paper

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