Thomas Merton - The Nonviolent Alternative (pdf)
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Thomas Merton (Gordon Zahn, ed.) - The Nonviolent Alternative (FSG, 1980). 270 pages. New scan. Searchable pdf (clearscan) with contents in bookmarks, accurate pagination and metadata, etc. Collection of short works on issues of peace and nonviolence by the radical monk who died in 1968. The writings in this work were precipitated by a variety of events during the last decades of Merton's life - the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s among them. His timeless moral integrity and tireless concern for nonviolent solutions to war are eloquently expressed. About the Author Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is one of the foremost spiritual thinkers of the twentieth century. Though he lived a mostly solitary existence as a Trappist monk, he had a dynamic impact on world affairs through his writing. An outspoken proponent of the antiwar and civil rights movements, he was both hailed as a prophet and castigated for his social criticism. He was also unique among religious leaders in his embrace of Eastern mysticism, positing it as complementary to the Western sacred tradition. Merton is the author of over forty books of poetry, essays, and religious writing, including Mystics and Zen Masters, and The Seven Story Mountain, for which he is best known. His work continues to be widely read to this day. --- For more books by Thomas Merton and for other books on nonviolence, see my other torrents.
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Now you're giving books I didn't even know exist. Goodness.
pharmakate at 2013-03-23 20:15 CET:
@Mertonoia - This actually was the first Merton book I ever read. I found it in a Catholic Worker house back in the day; it shaped my thinking in about a dozen ways.
@pharmakate. You've made me look forward to it even more. May I ask how old you were? The exact same thing happened with me with Contemplative Prayer, in a convent I'd gone to for retreat. It's such a small book, and yet the consequences were huge.
pharmakate at 2013-03-27 05:28 CET:
I was about 20, just discovering Gandhi, the meaning of Hiroshima, the way violence distorts language, the civil rights movement, the meaning of monasticism, etc.
@Pharmakate - What a deeply informing period. Sounds like you were very conscious and made the most of it. I've been thinking about the implications of profound non-violence and appreciate that you referred to it in the context of language. This book has come at a good time for me and I'm feeling selfishly thankful that you're not presently a hermit. Merton wrote inspiringly of this way, too, in Wisdom of the Desert.
pharmakate at 2013-03-28 10:54 CET:
@Mertonoia - Wisdom of the Desert, now that's a book I should get hold of. But no, not a hermit presently or ever. Regarding nonviolence and language, someone recently recommended Nonviolent Communication to me -- there's an audio torrent of it here on tpb. You might want to check it out.
@Pharmakate - Kewel! Thanks again! I'd love to give you a copy of WOTD if you can think of a comfortable way to receive it. I know, I know, scanning. If only I had your Ninja skills.
Thank you very much!
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