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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: 9 Dec 2024 22:12:49 GMT
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On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 10:33:06 +0100, D wrote:

> I find it interesting how in our modern and enlightened times (say from
> the 1950s and onward) there's been a "merge" with eastern spirituality
> where christian writers have "christianized" eastern meditational
> practices, and sometimes almost re-invented what the original crew you
> mentioned above did several 100 years earlier.

Prophet in his own land...  iirc Thomas Merton, who was well versed in 
Zen, pointed out the similarities to Christian mysticism and suggested you 
didn't really need to make the 'journey to the east'.