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The attainment of a transparent heart and mind is the goal of both Christian spirituality and Zen Buddhism. In this book, the author, an Abbot who has practised Zen for more than 20 years, shows how to enrich the Christian prayer life by the integration of techniques from the tradition of Zazen.
"[This book] is a story of an unusual group of women, the international organization of Medical Mission Sisters, as told by one sister, a Flemish medical doctor ... In the second part of this book, the author relfects on her own psychological and spiritual development, using a model based on the writings of the medieval mystic Ruusbroec."--Back cover.
Inleiding tot het gebruik van de oosterse meditatietechniek 'zazen' bij het benaderen van de Bijbel.
Beschouwingen over de bijbelse wijsheidstraditie, die toegankelijk wordt gemaakt via de weg van de Tibetaanse meditatiemethode.
Bloemlezing van beschouwingen over de klassieke studie van de Duitse theoloog Rudolf Otto (1869-1937), 'Das Heilige'.
Längst schon verstehen Christinnen und Christen andere Religionen nicht als Konkurrenz, sondern als Bereicherung der eigenen Gotteserfahrung. Gerade die fernöstlichen Religionen und ihre Meditationspraxis erfreuen sich einer hohen Wertschatzung. In diesem Band kommen bekannte Persönlichkeiten einer christlichen Spiritualität zu Wort, die glaubwürdig berichten, wie die Übung der Zen-Meditation zur Vertiefung ihres eigenen Glaubens führte.
Thomas Keating, author of Open Mind, Open Heart and father of the centering prayer movement, reflects on his life and Christian practice. In these conversations with film maker and writer Lucette Verboven, Thomas Keating OCSO – bestselling author, Trappist monk and founder of the Centering Prayer movement – looks back on his long life and spiritual development. Following on from his previous books Invitation to Love, Open Mind, Open Heart and The Mystery of Christ, Father Keating now turns his attention to the themes of awakening, the nature of true happiness and the character and purpose of death. World Without End also contains an interview with Abbot Joseph Boyle OCSO, who presides over the monastery where Father Keating is resident, high in the Rocky Mountains in Snowmass, Colorado. Verboven's insightful questions probe into the depths of Father Keating's spirituality, discussing identity, transformation, silence, nature and the cosmos – themes universal and applicable to all those searching for a deeper and more meaningful life.
This book offers new and challenging approaches to business ethics that successfully link theory and practice thereby overcoming lacunae and inadequacies in much of the literature concerning ethics and governance, a theme that recurs with remarkable frequency in the history of business ethics as an academic discipline. This work provides imaginative and innovate proposals for the indispensable coupling of virtue, integrity, and character with global business, finance, and banking. The volume seeks to overcome the marginal status of business ethics in universities, business, and enterprise by demonstrating that virtue ethics is an important step in the direction of an adequate response to the...