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Zen Gifts to Christians

Zen Gifts to Christians

Kennedy, Robert

Paperback

Religion General BuddhismChristian Living

ISBN10: 0826416543
ISBN13: 9780826416544
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Aug 10 2004
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

Robert Kennedy is one of three Jesuits in the world who answer to both the titles Father and Roshi, or venerable Zen teacher. In 1991, after ten years of practicing Zen meditation, he was installed as a Zen teacher at the recommendation of his teacher, Glassman Roshi, and of Glassman Roshi's teacher, Maezumi Roshi. Today, he directs a dozen groups of people from many religious persuasions--even atheists and agnostics--who sit weekly in Zen meditation throughout the greater New York metropolitan area. This book is specifically addressed to the Christian practitioners of Zen meditation or those who are curious about it. It is structured around ten well-known ox-herding pictures that have been a consistent source of inspiration to Zen students for centuries.

Each picture represents a specific Zen insight to life, and these insights, says Kennedy, are not only fully compatible with Christianity but can help Christians achieve the spiritual goals enshrined in a Christian classic. For example, The Cloud of Unknowing: to be silent and attentive, to be wholly present to life, to be able to separate one's true self from one's false self, the self-seeking part of the personality that so often brings on pain.

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