As a mystic, Merton is noted for three “epiphanies” of moments - TopicsExpress



          

As a mystic, Merton is noted for three “epiphanies” of moments of profound spiritual insight: in a Catholic Church in Cuba in 1940, he embodied heaven-on-earth during the Mass; at a busy street corner in Louisville, KY, in 1958, he “fell in love with all those people” and saw that our common humanity mattered more than artificial religious or vocational distinctions; and in 1968, just days before he died, while visiting the ancient city of Polonnaruwa in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and gazing upon the magnificent stone carved Buddhas in the Gil Vihara monastery, he sensed “beauty and spiritual validity running together in one aesthetic illumination” that he compared to sunyata or “emptiness”: “everything is emptiness and everything is compassion.” - Carl McColman
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:09:27 +0000

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