♡ Thomas Merton Inspired by Buddhism ♡ Thomas Merton is fondly Remembered by Brother David ♡
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Brother David Steindl-Rast celebrates the 100th birthday of the famous writer, activist and converted Catholic monk Thomas Merton during the Center for Interfaith Relations 2015 Festival of Faiths. "In 1915, Merton was born in France to an American mother and New Zealander father. He studied English at Columbia University in New York and shortly after graduation he converted to Catholicism after years of being drawn toward the religion. Two years later he attended “Holy Week” at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Ky. The following winter he was accepted into the Abbey. Throughout his life, he studied and wrote about Eastern religions and Catholicism. He met with the Dalai Lama three times and was especially interested in a Japanese form of Buddhism, Zen. Merton is widely regarded as a pioneering interfaith activist." ~ Melissa Chipman January 21, 2015: www.interfaithrelations.org./
DAVID STEINDL-RAST was born July 12, 1926, in Vienna, Austria, where he studied art, anthropology, and psychology, receiving an MA from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and a PhD from the University of Vienna. In 1952 he followed his family who had emigrated to the United States. In 1953 he joined a newly founded Benedictine community in Elmira, NY, Mount Saviour Monastery, of which he is now a senior member. In 1958/59 Brother David was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, where he also became the first Roman Catholic to hold the Thorpe Lectureship, following Bishop J.D.R. Robinson and Paul Tillich. gratefulness.org/brother-david...
During his last years, he became deeply interested in Asian religions, particularly Zen Buddhism, and in promoting East-West dialogue. After several meetings with Merton during the American monk's trip to the Far East in 1968, the Dalai Lama praised him as having a more profound understanding of Buddhism than any other Christian he had known.
The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University:
www.merton.org/collection.aspx
Thomas Merton’s writing continues to have an influence for many as they seek a deeper spiritual life.
Books by Thomas Merton on Amazon:
www.amazon.com/Thomas-Merton/...
“My Lord God I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that my desire to please you does in fact, please you. And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
~ Thomas Merton
"All people are united in our pursuit of happiness and our desire to avoid suffering. This is the source of humanity’s greatest achievements. For that reason, we should begin to think and act on the basis of an identity rooted in the words 'we humans.'”
~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Brother Dave. Love you! Great catholic monk as well as Thomas Merton, another wonderful catholic monk. It is great to have you both as a reference of our faith. God came to the world and created the church, the only true church. ❤🌸⛪️🕊❤️🌸📿📿📿📿📿📿📿📿📿
The pieces of my jouirney come together in this reminescence from dear Br. David. Gratitude in abundance.
Thank you for you beautiful words
Astounding Brother David you have made a difference in my life, thank you. I needed to hear everything here. Sending prayers your way and every day.
This week (July 11-17) Br. David celebrated his 95th birthday (7/12/26) in
Austria -after returning from several months in Argentina! Quite impressive!
I met him over 60 years ago; he is such a wonderful friend - divinely HUMAN!!
Love/peace, Elizabeth
The merriment 🍵
I have seen one video of an author on Bhuddism who is an Episcopal Priest, and in this video which was a short interview of him, in which he spoke kindly of Thomas Merton. His name was Matthew Fox an Episcopal Priest. In the interview he was receiving an praise for his writing about Thomas Merton and then he claimed that he had wanted to give something back to Merton for his own admitted use of Merton's writings. Then I started to watch another video of him which immediately identified him as an Episcopalian Priest even though his clothing does not. He was sitting at a desk with a shelf so closely on his back that it looked as if the only statue on the shelf was sitting on his shoulder, and who was it a statue of? Why, it was Bhudda!!!!!!! This was a repugnant thing for him to do. In the last video recorded talk Thomas Merton gave in Thailand before he died hours later, present were mostly Catholic nuns and Priests. His talk was on the value of Catholic Monastic life, and Religious only being able to survive in a Communist system if they lived within a Monastery. The only thing he said about Bhuddist Priests and nuns was that they tried to live within a Communist System in the outside world and not in a Monastery but they failed.
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I thought that he was inspired by God first?