Saturday, December 26, 2009

Bearing doubt ...

... God is the question. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I don't think we should underestimate the importantce of experience, of what Wordsworth calls "a sense sublime /Of something far more deeply interfused ... A motion and a spirit, that impels /All thinking things, all objects of all thought,/And rolls through all things."

6 comments:

  1. If God is the question, what is the answer?

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  2. That's no answer. That's another (implicit) question. What are you, Zen? I thought you were Roman Catholic. With respect.

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  3. Catholicism and Zen have more in common than you might think. See Dom Aelred Graham's Zen Catholicism or William Johnson's Christian Zen. Johnson, a Jesuit priest whom I interviewed some years ago, has lived in Japan for half a century.

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  4. Frank's account of his interview of William Johnston can be found here:

    http://booksinq.blogspot.com/2008/06/alone-with-alone.html

    And "[Shusaku] Endo and [William] Johnston talk of Buddhism and Christianity" can be found here:

    http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-EPT/william1.htm

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  5. And here are a few essays by William Johnston:

    "We need a revolution"
    http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/4296


    "Break the chains and pray together"
    http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/4481


    "The path from hate to love"
    http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/4659

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