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Document Details : Title: Thomas Merton Subtitle: Casting Out the Noonday Demon Author(s): ZAMMIT, Michael Journal: Studies in Spirituality Volume: 27 Date: 2017 Pages: 281-293 DOI: 10.2143/SIS.27.0.3254107 Abstract : Thomas Merton, perhaps even because of his experience of the Zen Buddhist conventions, was aware of the problematic nature of anger and the feeling of dejection in the the face of the tension that grief strikes with its nemesis, timidity. He claims that both Christianity and Buddhism agree that the root of man’s problem is that his consciousness is all fouled up. This paper therefore is concerned with why one does not apprehend reality as it fully and truthfully is, in the light of Merton and his interest even in Sanskrit and the views it captures. |
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