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Author: Jason N. Blum Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 027107471X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 202
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Zen and the Unspeakable God reevaluates how we study mystical experience. Forsaking the prescriptive epistemological box that has constrained the conversation for decades, ensuring that methodology has overshadowed subject matter, Jason Blum proposes a new interpretive approach—one that begins with a mystic’s own beliefs about the nature of mystical experience. Blum brings this approach to bear on the experiential accounts of three mystical exemplars: Meister Eckhart, Ibn al-ʿArabi, and Hui-neng. Through close readings of their texts, he uncovers the mystics’ own fundamental assumptions about transcendence and harnesses these as interpretive guides to their experiences. The predominant theory-first path to interpretation has led to the misunderstanding and misrepresentation of individual mystical experiences and fostered specious conclusions about cross-cultural comparability among them. Blum’s hermeneutic invites the scholarly community to begin thinking about mystical experience in a new way—through the mystics’ eyes. Zen and the Unspeakable God offers a sampling of the provocative results of this technique and an explanation of its implications for theories of consciousness and our contemporary understanding of the nature of mystical experience.
Author: Jason N. Blum Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 027107471X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
Zen and the Unspeakable God reevaluates how we study mystical experience. Forsaking the prescriptive epistemological box that has constrained the conversation for decades, ensuring that methodology has overshadowed subject matter, Jason Blum proposes a new interpretive approach—one that begins with a mystic’s own beliefs about the nature of mystical experience. Blum brings this approach to bear on the experiential accounts of three mystical exemplars: Meister Eckhart, Ibn al-ʿArabi, and Hui-neng. Through close readings of their texts, he uncovers the mystics’ own fundamental assumptions about transcendence and harnesses these as interpretive guides to their experiences. The predominant theory-first path to interpretation has led to the misunderstanding and misrepresentation of individual mystical experiences and fostered specious conclusions about cross-cultural comparability among them. Blum’s hermeneutic invites the scholarly community to begin thinking about mystical experience in a new way—through the mystics’ eyes. Zen and the Unspeakable God offers a sampling of the provocative results of this technique and an explanation of its implications for theories of consciousness and our contemporary understanding of the nature of mystical experience.
Author: F. Samuel Brainard Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 9780271041810 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 320
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Responding to our modern disillusionment with any claims to absolute truth regarding morality or reality, this book offers a conceptual approach for discussing absolutes without denying either the relevance of divergent religious and philosophical teachings or the evidence supporting postmodern and poststructuralist critiques. Case studies of mysticism within Advaita-Vedānta Hinduism, Mādhyamika Buddhism, and Nicene Christianity demonstrate the value of this approach and offer many fresh insights into the metaphysical presuppositions of these religions as well as into the nature and value of mystical experience. Like Douglas Hofstadter's Gōdel, Escher, Bach, this book finds ultimate reality to be rationally graspable only as an eternal fugue of pattern and paradox. Yet it does not so much counter other philosophical views as provide a conceptual tool for understanding and classifying incommensurable views.
Author: Robert Sohl Publisher: Signet Book ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 152
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At the living heart of both Christianity and Zen lies a single, luminous perception: Whether it is called Satori or Salvation, it is nothing less than the perfect knowledge of God. This unusual book brings together the most enlightening parables, riddles, and poems of East and West, to explore and illuminate this 'new conciousnesss' that is thrusting modern religious thought beyond theology.
Author: Ruben L. F. Habito Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0861718968 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 166
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The release of Ruben Habito's new book, Living Zen, Loving God has coincided with a rave review from Publishers Weekly magazine: "Habito may not seem himself as a revolutionary, but his humble life calling - to illuminate the commonalities between Zen Buddhism and Christianity - seems a profound gift. Habito excels in illuminating the connective spiritual tissue between the two religions, while explaining the principles of Buddhism. This is an excellent book for readers who want to deepen their understanding of Christianity, as well as Buddhism." - Publishers Weekly Exactly right. This wonderful book, in its friendly, informative tone, carefully explains Buddhist ideas - from key concepts like Emptiness and The Truth of Suffering to an in-depth and enlightening examination of the Heart Sutra - all in terms that will help modern Christian practitioners to deepen their faith, and Buddhists, to revitalize and broaden their perception and understanding. This is a book with immense value to anyone interested in interreligious dialogue and studies, and as such, has already won accolades from Habito's contemporaries. (See below.) Habito, a practicing Catholic and former Jesuit priest - as well as an acknowledged Zen master and professor in the School of Theology at Southern Methodist University - makes a clear case that Zen practice can deepen a Christian's connection to God, further clarify the Gospel teachings of Jesus, and enable one to live a more joyous, compassionate, and socially engaged life. Habito demonstrates that the practice of Zen meditation and even some elements of the Buddhist worldview can enable one to love God more constantly and commit to the service of the Realm of Heaven and the human community more wholeheartedly. Ruben L.F. Habito is the author of numerous publications, in both Japanese and English, on Zen and Christianity and is a prominent figure in the Buddhist-Christian Dialogue. A native of the philipines, Habito served as a Jesuit priest in Japan under the guidance of the great spiritual pioneer Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle and studied Zen with renowned teacher Koun Yamada. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
Author: N.M. Reyes Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426956665 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 100
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Why is there so much suffering and evil in the world? Why does a loving, all-knowing and all-powerful God allow it? How can we find purpose, happiness, freedom, and fulfillment amidst despair? In The God in Einstein and Zen, author N.M. Reyes blends Albert Einsteins famed equation (E = mc2) with Zen thought to provide a profound and satisfying answer to the human condition and human purpose. A thought-provoking, grand sweep of history, philosophy, science, religion, and mysticism, The God in Einstein and Zen shows how Einsteins profound insights into the mystery of the universe and creation resonates in Zens view of reality and human existence. Reyes attempts to bridge the gap between science and mysticism through an unexplored path. Presented in simple, non-technical language, The God in Einstein and Zen takes a candid and fearless journey into the human condition. It provides the key to understanding lifes great mysteries such as the existence of God, human suffering, personal salvation, happiness, and human destiny.
Author: John A. T. Robinson Publisher: SCM Press ISBN: 0334053501 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 132
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On first publication in the 1960s, "Honest to God" did more than instigate a passionate debate about the nature of Christian belief in a secular revolution. It epitomised the revolutionary mood of the era and articulated the anxieties of a generation.
Author: Thomas Merton Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1429944005 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 323
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Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. "All these studies," wrote Merton, "are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the 'way' which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness."
Author: Myosen Marcia Olsen Zen Buddhist Osho Publisher: ISBN: 9781432799137 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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What is life? Where do we come from? Where do we go? What is self? The book discusses these questions and many other topics. The author challenges our preconceived way of thinking and stimulates a new way of "thinking" from the inside out. The author stimulates deeper thinking and perhaps what might be called a deeper "logic." This book dispels myths about Zen Buddhism and sheds new light on the subject through the personal experiences and insights of a contemporary American Zen Buddhist priest. The author speaks in a voice that is plain and direct. She has been an avid student and practitioner of Zen Buddhism since 1968, when she began study at the age of nineteen. Later she became an osho (priest-teacher) in 1989. Her teacher is a high-level master from Japan. The author dares to answer such questions as, "What is the foundation of existence?" She handles such subjects authoritatively from the perspective of firsthand spiritual experience, revelation, if you will, while employing an intellect that springs from that firsthand experience in conjunction with the foundation of study that includes important Buddhist sutras and scriptures, her master's teisho (spiritual transmission lectures) and his direct, personal teaching, along with the entire spectrum of Zen training. The direct and personal study with a master is done through koan practice that includes frequent private interviews called "sanzen." The firsthand experience is based upon years of meditation and sincere study intermixed with intense training periods with the master as well as application of practice in all aspects of everyday life. She gives the reader a look inside the world of intense Zen practice and training with the front-row seat of her own experience. The subjects of human nature versus one's True Nature, and human consciousness versus Absolute Mind, are discussed various ways. This not only stimulates individual thinking, it gives the reader a taste of the Zen mind, which
Author: Daniel Marques Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781481921657 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 64
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This book is part of a Series entitled “Zen Supremacy” which includes the following topics: The Spiritual Identity; The Acknowledgement of God; The Perception of Happiness; The Transversality of Pureness; The Achievement of Immortality. This Series promotes a study of these subjects in their relation to Zen Philosophy and the content is supported by more than 20 years practicing Zen meditation and its application to modern life, as well as studying the different perspectives described and applied by Buddhism and its branches in India, Tibet, Japan and China. It is in this last country that, by experiencing the life and habits of the monks inside one of their own Temples, the acknowledgement of all the previous studies with different followers of Buddhism starts making its connection in an approach going beyond them. More precisely, it is when observing the difficulties that even those monks have in understanding and explaining the meaning of Zen and its application to life that the need for this book started making sense. Zen is a path, not an end, and even though many followers of Buddhism may have a certain acknowledgment allowing some light into the subject, it is difficult to find a person that can clearly describe it to others beyond his personal experience. Many would say that Zen is a lonely path that cannot be described but only achieved through the development of the conscience and, even though this may be true, the ones that feel difficulties in their spiritual journey still need some guidance so that they may continue on their own. It's for this reason that millions of spiritual followers seek for Teachers or Books that can help them and it's for this same reason that the Author has found himself many times explaining to students of Zen Buddhism what their Books and Teachers couldn't. Nevertheless, because the author has spent all his life, since a very early age, studying different religious believes from all over the world, this book doesn't wish to promote Zen philosophy in particular or Buddhism is general, but instead allow a better understanding on how the practice of Zen can help anyone in daily life, including in the understanding of different spiritual philosophies and religions. This is a book out of the box, combining the interpretation of Zen with many others, so that the reader may break free from the attachments of false teachings, confusion and delusional theories; and, doesn't wish to represent any Buddhist Philosophy in particular, although may actually help interpreting any of them. This, and the other books of the same Series must be read, above all, as a spiritual perspective with a multitude of applications, understandings and combinations, because Zen is not a dogma but a life-style promoting all life. Zen is a never-ending cycle of spiritual transformation towards enlightenment.
Author: Jason N. Blum
Author: Jason N. Blum
Author: F. Samuel Brainard
Author: Robert Sohl
Author: Ruben L. F. Habito
Author: N.M. Reyes
Author: John A. T. Robinson
Author: Thomas Merton
Author: Robert Sohl
Author: Myosen Marcia Olsen Zen Buddhist Osho
Author: Daniel Marques