Description
For sale is a Near Fine paperback edition, later printing of Mystics and Zen Masters by Thomas Merton. First [Paperback] Edition stated, 1967 Noonday Press. Ninth Printing 1994 stated.
The exterior of the paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, bright covers with no creases, mild surface wear, strong title on an un-cracked spine, a few marks on page blocks, a tight binding with no creases or cracks, strong spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also Near Fine, with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. “All these studies,” wrote Merton, “are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the ‘way’ which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness.”
Don’t miss the opportunity to own this Near Fine first paperback edition of this rare book. S
