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Thomas Merton's hermitage (interior) at the Abbey of Gethsemani. Below is a bibliography of published works written by Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk of The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani.
Seeds of Contemplation (1949) [1] The Seven Storey Mountain is the 1948 autobiography of Thomas Merton , an American Trappist monk and priest who was a noted author in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Merton finished the book in 1946 at the age of 31, five years after entering Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky .
Published that year were Seeds of Contemplation, The Tears of Blind Lions, The Waters of Siloe, [22] and the British edition of The Seven Storey Mountain under the title Elected Silence. On March 19, Merton became a deacon in the order, and on May 26 (Ascension Thursday) he was ordained a priest, saying his first Mass the following day.
In New Seeds of Contemplation Merton equates the unique "thingness" of a thing, its inscape, to sanctity. Merton writes, "No two created beings are exactly alike. And their individuality is no imperfection.
These seventeen adornments (alamkara) collectively illustrate the perfection of Sukhāvatī and serve as objects of contemplation for practitioners. [6] Vasubandhu also emphasizes how the pure land has no gender (specifically, he mentions how there no women in the pure land), how there are no imperfect bodies, and how beings with the seeds of ...
Merton's widely read works include his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, as well as New Seeds of Contemplation and No Man is an Island. The first Trappist saint was Rafael Arnáiz Barón, who was a conventual oblate of the Abbey of San Isidro de Dueñas in Dueñas, Palencia.
Replace the habit with something new. This part is tough, but it can work. When you catch yourself thinking about weighing in, or if that inner voice starts up again, redirect your attention to ...
The Silence referred to is the climax moment of contemplation in ascension, where the soul resides in the third and highest realm within Barbelo, at which point the descension back to the first realm where Adam and Seth reside begins, blessing the other realms on the way down.