Christians Talk about Buddhist Meditation, Buddhists Talk About Christian PrayerRita M. Gross, Terry C. Muck This book adopts the format of the editorsÆ previous book, Buddhists Talk about Jesus, Christians Talk about the Buddha. In that book eight scholar-practitioners--four of them Buddhist and four Christian--explored their relationship to the great religious figure of the other tradition. Then the remaining contributors, two from each tradition, addressed themselves, rebuttal fashion, to the views expressed. In the new book the subject is the differences and similarities between Buddhist meditation and Christian prayer. What can a Christian, for example, learn from the mental and physical rigor of Buddhist meditative practice? What can a Buddhist learn from traditional Christian prayer? Can one mix distinct religious identity (Christian) with practice techniques associated with another religion (Buddhist) without compromising the religious specificity of either the identities or the techniques? Christian contributors include Frances S. Adeney, Mary Frohlich, Paul O. Ingram, Ursula King, Terry C. Muck, Yagi Seiichi, and Bardwell Smith. Buddhist contributors include Robert Aitken, Grace Burford, Rita Gross, John Makransky, Ken Tanaka, Robert Thurman, and Taitetsu Unno. |
Contents
Introduction by Terry C Muck | 7 |
How I a Christian Have Learned from Buddhist Practice | 15 |
A Lutherans Interior Dialogue | 27 |
Preparing for the Path | 37 |
A Buddhist Reflects Practices Reflection | 55 |
Buddhist or Christian | 69 |
A Comparative Inquiry | 88 |
Christian Prayer Seen from the Eye of a Buddhist | 101 |
Jesus Prayer and the Nembutsu | 109 |
A Reflection | 118 |
A Christian Response to Buddhist Reflections on Prayer | 135 |
Conclusion by Rita M Gross | 150 |
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Amida aspiration become believe Bodhisattva breath Buddha Buddhist and Christian Buddhist meditation Buddhist practice Buddhist prayer Buddhist traditions Buddhist-Christian Buddhists Talk centering prayer chanting Christ Christian prayer compassion contemplative context D. T. Suzuki deity dharani Dharma Dharmapāla dhist dialogue divine Dogen Dogen Kigen ekomon enlightenment essay existence experience faith feelings grace Heart Sutra hesychasm human interdependence interreligious Jesus Prayer kannalavva kind learned liturgies living Lotus Sutra Mahayana means meditative practice Mindful Practice monastery monastic monks mudra mystical Nembutsu nondual nontheistic notion of prayer one's oneself person petition practitioners pray Primal Vow Pure Land reality realization recited religions religious practices religious traditions Rita Saint samatha serenity prayer Shin Buddhism Shinran Shobogenzo spiritual discipline spiritual practice sutra services Suzuki teacher teaching theological reflection Theravada things thought tion trans transformation ultimate understanding University Unno utterance Vajrayana wisdom words Zen Buddhist
References to this book
A Handbook of Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives Robert Sternberg,Jennifer Jordan No preview available - 2005 |