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Published in book form for the first time, Thomas Merton's
The third volume of Thomas Merton's journals chronicles Merton's attempts to reconcile his desire for solitude and contemplation with the demands of his new-found celebrity status within the strictures of conventional monastic life.
The complete and unedited edition of Thomas Merton's famous
autobiography, one of the greatest works of spiritual pilgrimage
ever written. 'The Seven Storey Mountain is a book one reads with a
pencil so as to make it one's own.' Graham Greene 'A remarkable
book, a classic of its kind, written in a vivid, rich and alert
style which ranges from crisp vernacular to passionate eloquence,
full of picturesque incident and passing at times into religious
ecstasy.' The Times Literary Supplement 'A book which may well
prove to be of permanent interest in the history of religious
experience.' Evelyn Waugh
The first collection of Thomas Merton's nature writings serves as a
primer on eco-spirituality. Thomas Merton: millions know him as the
author of The Seven Storey Mountain, the international bestseller
and a modern spiritual classic. Now, in the first collection of his
writings on nature, Merton is revealed as a man whose spirituality
is rooted in nature, an environmentalist ahead of his time. These
writings reveal Merton's approach to ecology as a spiritual issue
that exposes the degree of human alienation from the sacredness of
the planet. Kathleen Deignan, has skillfully grouped over 300 of
Merton's nature writings into thematic sections on the seasons,
elements, creatures and other topics and has added an informative
introduction. A foreword by renowned environmental and spiritual
mentor Thomas Berry and art by John Giuliani complete this
important compilation.
Thomas Merton was the most popular proponent of the Christian
contemplative tradition in the twentieth century. Now, for the
first time, his most lyrical and prayerful writings have been
arranged into A Book of Hours, which provides such a rich resource
for daily prayer and contemplation that imitates the increasingly
popular ancient monastic practice of "praying the hours". Editor
Kathleen Deignan mined Merton's voluminous writings, arranging
prayers for Dawn, Day, Dusk, and Dark for each of the days of the
week. A Book of Hours gives readers a wide spectacle of texts, with
psalms, prayers, readings, and reflections.
"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.
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 reader a strong taste
of the mature Merton. Never does one feel him losing his own faith
in these pages; 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
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Silence, Joy (Paperback)
Thomas Merton; Edited by Christopher Wait
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In this day of mindless distraction, we're desperate for reasons to
put down our phones and reconnect with our spiritual selves. In
time for the 50th anniversary of Thomas Merton's death in 1968,
Silence, Joy is an invitation to slow down, take a breath, make a
space for silence, and open up to joy. Poet, monk, spiritual
advisor, and social critic, Thomas Merton is a unique-and uniquely
beloved-figure of the twentieth century, and this little rosary
brings together his best-loved poems and prose. Drawn from classics
like New Seeds Of Contemplation and The Way Of Chuang Tzu as well
as less famous books, the writings in Silence, Joy offer the reader
deep, calming stillness, flights of ecstatic praise, steadying
words of wisdom, and openhearted laughter. Manna for Merton lovers
and a warm embrace for novices, this slim collection is a
delightful gift.
Now in paperback, revised and redesigned: This is Thomas Merton's
last book, in which he draws on both Eastern and Western traditions
to explore the hot topic of contemplation/meditation in depth and
to show how we can practice true contemplation in everyday life.
Never before published except as a series of articles (one per
chapter) in an academic journal, this book on contemplation was
revised by Merton shortly before his untimely death. The material
bridges Merton's early work on Catholic monasticism, mysticism, and
contemplation with his later writing on Eastern, especially
Buddhist, traditions of meditation and spirituality. This book thus
provides a comprehensive understanding of contemplation that draws
on the best of Western and Eastern traditions.
Merton was still tinkering with this book when he died; it was
the book he struggled with most during his career as a writer. But
now the Merton Legacy Trust and experts have determined that the
book makes such a valuable contribution as his major comprehensive
presentation of contemplation that they have allowed its
publication.
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey
Mountain is one of the most influential religious works of the
twentieth century. This edition contains an introduction by
Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by
biographer William H. Shannon. It tells of the growing restlessness
of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace and
faith leads him, at the age of twenty-six, to take vows in one of
the most demanding Catholic orders--the Trappist monks. At the
Abbey of Gethsemani, "the four walls of my new freedom," Thomas
Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has
fully immersed himself in it. The Seven Storey Mountain has been a
favorite of readers ranging from Graham Greene to Claire Booth
Luce, Eldridge Cleaver, and Frank McCourt. And, in the half-century
since its original publication, this timeless spiritual tome has
been published in over twenty languages and has touched millions of
lives.
A recapitulation of his earlier work Seeds of Contemplation, this
collection of sixteen essays plumbs aspects of human spirituality.
Merton addresses those in search of enduring values, fulfillment,
and salvation in prose that is, as always, inspiring and
compassionate. "A stimulating series of spiritual reflections which
will prove helpful for all struggling to...live the richest,
fullest and noblest life" (Chicago Tribune).
This beautifully produced commemorative edition includes an account
of the book's original publication by Merton's editor, Robert
Giroux, an Introduction by Merton's biographer, Father William
Shannon, and Merton's own Introduction to the Japanese
edition.
Thomas Merton's classic study of monastic prayer and contemplation
brings a tradition of spirituality alive for the present day. But,
as A. M. Allchin points out in his Introduction to this new
edition, Contemplative Prayer also shows us the present day in a
new perspective, because we see it in the light of a long and
living tradition. Merton stresses that in meditation we should not
look for a 'method' or 'system' but cultivate an 'attitude' or
'outlook': faith, openness, attention, reverence, expectation,
trust, joy. God is found in the desert of surrender, in giving up
any expectation of a particular message and 'waiting on the Word of
God in silence'. Merton insists on the humility of faith, which he
argues 'will do far more to launch us into the full current of
historical reality than the pompous rationalisations of politicians
who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of
history'.
Poet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social
critic: the late Thomas Merton was all these things. This classic
selection from his great body of poetry affords a comprehensive
view of his varied and progressively innovative work. Selected by
Mark Van Doren and James Laughlin, this slim volume is now
available again as a wonderful showcase of Thomas Merton's splendid
poetry.
Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series
of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most
spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the
fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic historical
spokesperson 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 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."
One of the most influential American spiritual writers of the past
century provides 365 days worth of inspirational and provocative
selections from his personal journals. Each month begins with one
of Merton's delightful, Zen-style, pen-and-ink drawings.
2013 Reprint of 1963 Edition. Full facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is
Merton's Guide to basic principles of Roman Catholic spirituality
for lay and religious aspirants. With a simplicity of language and
an intellectual candor that exemplify the purity of his vision,
Merton here traces the basic principles of the spiritual life.
Merton shows us how to draw out the richness of worship from the
psalter and to use it to achieve "the peace that comes from
submission to God's will and from perfect confidence in him"
"The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground I
with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at
last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With
these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thomas Merton
recorded the beginning of his fateful journey to the Orient. His
travels led him from Bangkok, through India to Ceylon, and back
again to Bangkok for his scheduled talk at a conference of Asian
monastic orders. There he unequivocally reaffirmed his Christian
vocation. His last journal entry was made on December 8, 1968, two
days before his untimely, accidental death. Amply illustrated with
photographs he himself took along the way and fully indexed, the
book also contains a glossary of Asian religious terms, a preface
by the Indian scholar Amiya Chakravarty, a foreword and postscript
by Brother Patrick Hart of the Abbey of Gethsemani, as well as
several appendices, among them the text of Merton's final address."
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