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Zen and the Birds of Appetite

Paperback • 1968 • English

Zen and the Birds of Appetite

By Thomas Merton

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"Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite--one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the 'nothing, ' the 'no-body' that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey." This gets at the humor...Show more

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ISBN

9780811201049

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published year

1968

Language

English

Original title

Zen and the Birds of Appetite

Format

Paperback

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