8 Edgy Ver. 2
His dilemma was anchored in the dualistic point of view that set the secular world over against the monastic cloister. He noted, “I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery. . . . [T] here was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister.” 51 His conflict was radically described: “Maybe in the end he [a writer] will kill me, he will drink my blood. . . . There are the days when there seems to be nothing left of my vocation—my contemplative vocation—but a few ashes.”
-Thomas Merton’s encounter with Buddhism and beyond: his interreligious dialogue, inter-monastic exchanges, and their legacy / Jaechan Anselmo Park, OSB.
8 Edgy Ver. 2
His dilemma was anchored in the dualistic point of view that set the secular world over against the monastic cloister. He noted, “I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery. . . . [T] here was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister.” 51 His conflict was radically described: “Maybe in the end he [a writer] will kill me, he will drink my blood. . . . There are the days when there seems to be nothing left of my vocation—my contemplative vocation—but a few ashes.”
-Thomas Merton’s encounter with Buddhism and beyond: his interreligious dialogue, inter-monastic exchanges, and their legacy / Jaechan Anselmo Park, OSB.