Product Description

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of contemplation that draws on the best of Western and Eastern traditions. The articles within this book have never been published together in one volume and aims to bridge the gap between the authors earlier work on Catholic monasticism and his later on Buddhims.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1358540 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Merton at Midstream
THE INNER EXPERIENCE is a recently edited and published work which reflects Merton's thinking on the subject of contemplation about 1959 - eleven years after the publication of both THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN and WHAT IS CONTEMPLATION? The most interesting chapters in the book, in my opinion, are Chapter 5 which attempts to describe the various kinds of contemplation as well as Chapter 7 dealing with the texts on contemplative prayer written by St. John of the Cross, Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Meister Eckhart and St. Bernard of Clairvaux. THE INNER EXPERIENCE preceeds NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION which was written in 1961.