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THE EYE AWARE: Zen Lessons for Christians.(Review)(Brief Article)
JEROEN WITKAM. Lantern, $15 paper (176p) ISBN 1-930051-04-2 (Zen Buddhism/Christianity/Spirituality)
Witkam, the abbot at Mary's Refuge Abbey in the Netherlands, has been conducting Zen sessions there for more than 20 years. In this brief text, which defies genre, he alternates among instructing Zazen neophytes, exploring affinities between Christianity and Zen meditation, and sharing fragments of insight from his own meditative community. While he refers infrequently to contemporary and historical Christian mystics, he does not explicitly connect his mysticism to theirs. In fact, he mostly elides postbiblical Christian history, extolling a mysticism that blends …
