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Thank you Professor McGinn!

Great talk. Thanks for posting.

So good. Take this through a lens of incarnation. It takes you there

But can intentional sin impact mental health, like King David's depression from his his rebellion?

Excellent!

Excellent insights. Is his next topic posted anywhere? "Why mental disorders are not brain disorders alone a holistic christian approach to mental health care".

Pity there was no microphone for the questions !

Merton was an hypocrite. He had a sexual affair with a nurse and broke his vows. All his vows. He was not a faithful monk. He was a fraud. He was neither obedient nor faithful.

i can never get an answer to this question--- The church supports women who go to the mission field to preach the gospel or even stand on the sidewalk handing out tracts and telling others of the good news. But when a woman with the exact same message steps inside the church she is labeled a heretic, rebellious, disobedient. If the church building were to blow away in a tornado leaving an empty lot, , could she then stand where the church once stood and preach the gospel? p.s. the early church did not have pulpits. They were invented about 400 years later s a way to project the voice in a large area-such as a church sanctuary which they were not part of the early church either.

so the first sex change was in the bible when female junia was changed to male junius!!!

Light needs to be shined on evil. Merton's death begs question after question after question... it is more probable his death was murder, NOT accidental as the speaker claims.

This is an interesting lecture…. But in Christ there is nothing lacking.

“We all stand on our own”… no need for the ‘structures’. Sounds very Protestant of Merton.

Exceptional, thank you for posting this for us to see.

Is Jesus lifted up, that's the Spiritual safety net!

All experiences and thoughts must be held up to the Word of God. Experiences are not the criteria for judging apart from the Word. The foundation of faith collapses when scripture has been added to Or scripture replaced by ideologies. All cults have a few things in common. They do not acknowledge that Jesus Christ is God incarnate and they have other sources other than the Holy Scriptures that has been added to the Torah and the New Testament like The Book of Mormon which was given to Joseph Smith (a spiritist) by a demon appearing as an angel of light. Only Belief in Christ can redeem people from sin. It is a great danger to empty the mind. We are never told in the scriptures to empty the mind. Nature deplores a vacuum and so do demons. Jesus said why seek the living among the dead. One cannot cherry pick out of the Word what to believe.

“Christ the still point of a turning world” said TS Elliott. When Jesus said to “wake up” so to speak, He was saying wake up to the truth that He is God. You can’t interpret the Gospels or epistles apart from the Holy Spirit. Zen means to see nothing. This interweaving of Catholic theology with Buddhism is poison and new age lies. Such a shame and dangerous. This will probably anger many who love Merton but perhaps the Lord removed him because he was going into extreme error. Buddhism numbs the mind.

A real blessing. Thank you!

"Some of us should know something about the traditions we're judging." -YES!

Excellent talk

Thank you, this is very fascinating stuff! 🙏🏻

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Christianity and Hinduism have little in common. Natural religion like Buddhism. Taoism and Hindu or Vedic teachings can take man to his highest natural state of unitive consciousness. The experience of “oneness” and the “Self” are expressed in Christian mysticism but the ultimate revelation is Christian. The Word that descends and lifts the donor up to review the Godhead, the Pleroma, the Father of Lights if far beyond the natural religions experience and drugs won’t help you get there either. Only the name of Jesus. The Word of God by Whom all things are created.

I married a practicing Buddhist who converted to Christianity, I must tell you and my wife would agree, “Buddhism leads to good, but not to God” so be loving always but cautious. It’s easy to get lost while intoxicated. ✝️

Reading the books of the New Testament, we probably asked ourselves more than once: *"Why 2000 years we do not see those miracles that accompanied the Сhurch of Christ in the I century, as described in the New Testament?"* Why do the so-called preachers of Christ have to prove that Jesus really existed and atheists boldly deny the historicity or divine origin of Christ? Maybe because the Сhurch of Christ has not existed for 2000 years? The Сhurch does not exist in the form in which it is presented in the books of the New Testament, but there are Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and other christian sects claiming to be the place of the Church, but they not have the only thing that distinguishes the divine from the human and is characteristic of just the Сhurch of Christ -the reinforcement of the word with signs, that is, miracles (Mark 16:15-20). Therefore, some researchers doubt the historicity of Christ, and some of them are not opposed to declaring him a an ordinary philosopher, teacher. But even if Jesus were an ordinary philosopher, his disciples would be ordinary followers of Jesus. And they would not dare to write about the miracles that not only Jesus, but also his disciples, could perform. In this world, the great fertility of atheism can be explained by the fact that there is no main opponent of critics of the Bible - the Church. If there were the Church in our time as described by the authors of the New Testament books, where miracles are performed, the sick are healed, where prophesied, and the dead are raised, no one would doubt the historicity of Christ. Then there would be the same controversy throughout the world as in the first century - Jesus the Son of God or the false prophet who seduces the world by miracles. As a result, we can say that the emergence and development of christian sects and atheism was the result of the fact that over the 2000 years the Сhurch of Christ did not exist. Find *"The Mystery about the Church of Christ"* video on RUclips. The video reveals the prophecy of the disappearance and reappearance of the Church of Christ before the End of the World. Watching this video will give hope to all who sincerely seek God and will interest those who are not too lazy to think freely. Click on my name to watch the video (The video is in Russian, but English subtitles are included).

At 24:26 Dr. Thorston makes a very quick comparison between christianity and buddhism, stating that buddhism has articulated much more clearly the psychological steps of spiritual development, but she doesn’t provide any specific examples, or any clarification. It just sounds arbitrary and unfair towards christianity and the history of christian mysticism. Are we supposed to take such a delicate and hugely arguable statement at face value?

Thomas Merton Society of Vancouver to Calgary following a meeting! P.Hwang

First of all, Buddhism is not a "religion" , it is a philosophy just as Judaism, Christianity and Islam are at their core. That said, it has been made to operate as a "religion" by those who have added all the dogma and tenets and other trappings of religions. It has been made a profitable enterprise complete with all the traditions and ceremonies and conflicting dogma just as can be seen in all other religions. The world is full of "priest", pastors, rabbis, gurus; all kinds of self proclaimed " holy teachers", each with their own special irrefutable knowledge of the way of "salvation". Merton is not unique in any way. He was , just as so many religious mentors have been, a man with a different personal idea of what, how and why his ideas are note worthy.

I feel major edification listening to this talk.

Bernhard McGinn is such a wonderful man and has a lot to share and talk about. Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful talk with all of us!

An absolutely first-rate lecture!!

Not to be too critical, but does anyone else realize that Thomas Merton, like Joseph Campbell, is promoted and emphasized, because he / they fulfilled a leftist world vision and movement that did not challenge the predominant academic views at the time? If one examines them carefully one finds a quite biased world view.....

you lost me, when you went to mix....hmmm, with whom.....try one, or the other, but not both.....sounds like an oximoron....

How come then that Jesus Christ asks us to be COMPLETELY AND ONLY ROOTED IN HIM

fascinating - thank you so much!

Thank for this talk ! To think that I lived in Calgary and did not come to this talk just shows that when the student is ready the teacher arrives

Ramājuna's idea that we are "parts" of the One God is not too dissimilar to the view of Prince Andrei in Tolstoy's War and Peace.

REALIZE THE KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN

This rings a bell as I left Christianity many years ago because there was no path for spiritual development. The only toolkit in Christianity was prayer which often proved ineffective. Hence Christianity is resigned to the spirit is willing but flesh weak. I am attracted to Buddhism because it is practical and a wholistic spiritual practice starting from generosity, virtue, deep meditation and finally spiritual wisdom. It changes character , outlook and is a gradual release from suffering, from the inside out. Cheers.

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I didn't get the joke about the "wrong Descartes". Can somebody explain? Thanks 😊

Very good session including the Q&A. Thank you for posting.

This talk was longer and about 48 minutes of it seem truncated - Would it be possible to have access to that - it would really help in concluding a series of thought that Dr Bonnie was leading up to which in the light of Practice of Spirituality in Community and such issues would be helpful to hear the whole talk

I haven't heard much of Dr. Ward but he sounds lot like David Bentley Hart!

And (specially!!!) by being a Rabbi he had to be married, that is Jewish costume... but the church with its agenda changed the story, for you are only "saved" through them, right? what a lie. It is "By Your Deeds (NOT the church) You Will be Judged" (and saved or dammed/your actions throughout your life!!) that is what Yeshua came to teach, and to restore women's rightful place at the side of men.

He is a treasure of wit and open minded truthfulness - fluid conceptually and very G++d natured - who the Hell (ahem) is gonna replace Keith when he moves on ?

All non-Catholics are, objectively speaking, damned to eternal hellfire for all eternity. God zapped Merton before he could formally apostasize.

Direct perception of reality is without thought. Therefore without time and without a perceiver or "self." "Perception without a perceiver" may seem paradoxical, but it is this perception that lies between thoughts, and is experienced each night during deep sleep. It is perception not by the "self" but by a witness called awareness. Awareness exists before, during and after a sense of self, but since we are preoccupied with "self," it is rarely experienced. Deep sleep is not the absence of awareness, but the awareness of absence. Zen can bring this deep sleep awareness into awake consciousness. Techniques are used to "stop the mind." Once a glimpse of "no thought" happens, this direct reality is no longer an abstraction, no longer a goal, but it is experienced as regular, daily life. Jesus knew all this. And he talked about it. But he was ultimately misunderstood. And 2,000 years of putting Jesus up on a pedestal to be worshiped has obscured his teaching almost entirely. I think it is too late for Christianity. It is soiled beyond repair. And the irony is that we must now look to the East to find out what the rabbi was on about.

thanks

Merton was a close reader of Kierkegaard.