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Few people serve as teachers in more than one Tradition. Father Robert Kennedy, Roshi, Catholic priest and Zen Buddhist master, is one of those few. In “To Live with Gratitude,” Tracy Cochran interviews him in depth. I think Zen has great resonance with Christianity at the point where Christians realize that all images of God are just our projections, really. We imagine the most beautiful and the best things we can think of, and that of course is not God. Meister Eckhart says, leave God for God....But there’s another step too, when we realize that this eternal truth, in whose presence we are sitting, is not an object in front of our gaze but experienced as our very self. The faithful practitioner must finally stop hero-worshipping and act out of a center of confidence—and live that way, becoming useful. Silence can be tremendously fruitful in bringing us to these different stages of life. |
