In these conferences dating to 1961, Thomas Merton provides for his audience of young monks an overview of major themes and figures in the Christian mystical tradition as an integral...
Thomas Merton's two series of Pre-Benedictine Monasticism conferences form both a supplement and a sequel to Cassian and the Fathers, the first volume of Merton's conferences for novices to be...
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.
Merton has felt free, as a monk, to do what generations of monks before him have done. He has made a wholly independent and original use of material which is the traditional basis of Christian monastic spirituality." -- Dust jacket.
The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.
Thomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders.
Manna for Merton lovers and a warm embrace for novices, this slim collection is a delightful gift.
As James Finley writes in his preface to this volume, “Merton is teaching us in these notes how to be grateful and amazed that the ancient wisdom that shimmers and shines in the eloquent and beautiful things that mystics say is now ...
APPENDIX C For Further Reading A. Other Writings by Merton on Topics Treated in Medieval Cistercian History Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7. Ed. Patrick F. O'Connell.
The texts of these conferences represent the longest and most systematically organized of any of numerous series of conferences that Merton presented during the decade of his mastership.
Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7. Edited by Patrick F. O'Connell. Monastic Wisdom 41. Collegeville, MN: Cistercian, 2015. ———. Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.
Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7. Edited by Patrick F. O'Connell. Monastic Wisdom 41. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2015. ———. Cistercian Fathers and Forefathers: Essays ...
In this book you have everything you need to play and sing some of the greatest Irish ballads ever written the lyrics, guitar chords and simplified music score, plus a CD featuring the first verse and chorus of each of the ballads.
RELIGION & BELIEFS. In these essays, talks, and a stunning selection of his own photographs, Thomas Merton hauntingly evokes the spirituality of a uniquely American sect.
The Chinese sage abounds in wit and paradox and shattering insights into the true ground of being. Thomas Merton, no stranger to Asian thought, brings a vivid, modern idiom to the timeless wisdom of Tao.
As free, interpretive readings, this book is very much Thomas Merton's own, the result of five years of reading, study and meditation.
Working from existing translations, Father 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, considered along with Lao Tzu, one of the great figures of early Taoist thought, used parables and anecdotes, allegory, and paradox to illustrate that real happiness and freedom are found only in understanding the Tao, and ...
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A recapitulation of his earlier work Seeds of Contemplation, this collection of sixteen essays plumbs aspects of human spirituality.