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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. At a time in my life when I had drifted far from my Quaker origins, I found the discipline of Zen meditation to be clarifying, healing, and liberating. Curiously, this Asian spiritual practice has led me back to the Society of Friends: the more I practice Zen, the more thoroughly Quaker I become. The spiritual insights of Christianity and Quakerism have regained for me fresh depth, power, charisma. Within the earliest records of Quakerism, in the writings of George Fox and other early Friends, I find – to my wonder and delight – remarkably explicit guidelines for a spiritual practice that are often diluted or obscured in contemporary un-programmed Friends’ worship. In A Quaker in the Zendo, I tell the story of my journey through Zen to a rediscovery of these directions for spiritual formation practiced by the earliest Quakers. -- the author. At a time in my life when I had drifted far from my Quaker origins, I found the discipline of Zen meditation to be clarifying, healing, and liberating. Curiously, this Asian spiritual practice has led me back to the Society of Friends: the more I practice Zen, the more thoroughly Quaker I become. The spiritual insights of Christianity and Quakerism have regained for me fresh depth, power, charisma. Within the earliest records of Quakerism, and the writings of George Fox and other early Friends, I find, to my wonder and delight, remarkably explicit guidelines for the spiritual practices that are often diluted or obscured in contemporary unprogrammed Friends' worship. In this pamphlet, I tell the story of my journey through Zen to a rediscovery of these directions for spiritual formation practiced by the earliest Quakers. Steve Smith In this very interesting, wise, clear, and helpful pamphlet, the author tells his spiritual journey: raised a Conservative Quaker in Iowa, fallen away and trained in analytical philosophy, through the study and practice of Zen Buddhism he found the treasures of Quakerism again. He found Fox and other early Quakers experiencing and explaining a spiritual path of death to self, and of awakening to rich spiritual Presence and guidance, through a demanding discipline and faithfulness. He describes the Quaker practice, laid out by early Quakers, in both modern and traditional terms. He writes beautifully of his own experience. We can note in his account what seems to be quite common, that all too often Quakers do not teach and guide their young and newcomers in their spiritual discipline, so they must learn it elsewhere or stumble along on their own. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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