Zen and the Birds of Appetite
Zen and the Birds of Appetite "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…
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Zen and the Birds of Appetite
"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. The birds may come and circle for a while... "There is no body to be found.
When they are gone, the 'nothing, ' the 'no-body' that was there, suddenly appears. but they soon go elsewhere. 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
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