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by Thomas Merton

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"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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In this collection of essays Merton wrote about complex Asian concepts with a Western directness.

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  • Title Zen and the Birds of Appetite
  • Author Thomas Merton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 15th Printing
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1968-01-17
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780811201049 / 081120104X
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.03 x 5.3 x 0.41 in (20.40 x 13.46 x 1.04 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Buddhist
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Catholic
    • Theometrics: Mainline
  • Category Education / Teaching
  • Library of Congress subjects Zen Buddhism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.392
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