Zen and the Birds of Appetite
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- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2010
Summary
“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.”
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780811201049 |
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| ISBN-10: | 081120104X |
| Author: | Thomas Merton |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Imprint: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 175g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 132mm x 203mm |
| Series: | New Directions Paperbook |
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Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) entered the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, following his conversion to Catholicism and was ordained Father M. Louis in 1949. During the 1960s, he was increasingly drawn into a dialogue between Eastern and Western religions and domestic issues of war and racism. In 1968, the Dalai Lama praised Merton for having a more profound knowledge of Buddhism than any other Christian he had known. Thomas Merton is the author of the beloved classic The Seven Storey Mountain.
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