Purity of Heart and Contemplation : A Monastic Dialogue Between Christian and Asian Traditions

by Barnhart, Bruno; Wong, Joseph; Huang, Yuese

• ISBN13: 9780826413482
• ISBN10: 082641348X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

This new book, the fruit of a weeklong intermonastic dialogue held at New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California, includes (in addition to Zen Buddhism & Hinduism) the Chinese traditions of Taoism, Confucianism, & Chan Buddhism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword: The Heart of Dialogue
Preface: The Dialogue in Its Monastic Setting
Introduction	p. 1
Hinduism	p. 19
Regaining the Lost Kingdom: Purity and Meditation in the Hindu Spiritual Tradition	p. 23
Heart Yoga: A Comparison of Two Texts, Pratyabhijna-hridayam (Kashmir, eleventh century) and Kaivalya-darsanam (West Bengal, nineteenth century)	p. 39
The Space in the Lotus of the Heart: The Anthropological Spirit in the Writings of Bede Griffiths	p. 54
Buddhism	p. 71
Glistening Frost and Cooking Sand: Unalterable Aspects of Purity in Chan Buddhist Meditation	p. 75
Cleansing the Heart: Buddhist Bowing as Contemplation	p. 92
The Historical Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, in Dialogue with the Unknown Author of The Cloud of Unknowing	p. 108
Zen and the Impurity of Purity	p. 124
Zazen: A Path from Judgment to Love	p. 137
Sacred Fools and Monastic Rules: Zen Rule-Bending and the Training for Pure Hearts	p. 151
Doubt and Breakthrough in the Desert Fathers	p. 165
Taoism and Confucianism	p. 177
The Taoist Tradition of Meditation: History, Transformation, and Comparison	p. 181
Chaos: The Thematic Continuity between Early Taoism and the Way of the Golden Elixir	p. 197
Through Detachment to Vision: Chuang Tzu and Meister Eckhart	p. 210
Benedictine Humility and Confucian "Sincerity"	p. 227
Christian and Western Perspectives	p. 243
Purity of Heart: Discovering What You Really Want	p. 247
On the Re-creating of Desire and Purity of Heart: An Exploration	p. 263
Purity of Heart: A Dialogue	p. 279
Christian Self-Understanding in the Light of the East: New Birth and Unitive Consciousness	p. 291
Notes	p. 309
Contributors	p. 345
Index	p. 351
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