New Directions Paperbook: Zen and the Birds of Appetite (Paperback)

from Arctic-Stranger

It is a shame that Fr. Merton died before his thoughts on Eastern religions and Christianity were fully germinated. Here Merton takes us on a tourist path through Zen, and shows places where he thi...

from Neutiquam_Erro

This little set of essays on Zen Buddhism by one of the great Catholic thinkers of this century, a Trappist monk often associated with peace theology, is challenging and unique. It is clear the Mer...

from cjbanning

I take it for granted that if you want to understand Zen, then reading the work of a Catholic monk is probably not the way to do it. Merton's account of a Zen which is radically divorceable from th...

from cjbanning

I take it for granted that if you want to understand Zen, then reading the work of a Catholic monk is probably not the way to do it. Merton's account of a Zen which is radically divorceable from th...

from Michael.Bradham

Took many notes from this one. I referred back to them on rainy days many years ago.