Journeys into Emptiness
Subtitle: Dogen, Merton, Jung, and the Quest for Transformation (Jung and Spirituality Series)
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780809139330
Subjects: Christian theology; Spirituality; Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality; Merton, Thomas,; Philosophy Of Religion; Psychology Of Religion; Spiritual life; Biography & Autobiography; Religion; Psychotherapy - General; Comparative Religion; Spirituality - General; Religious; 1200-1253; Asceticism; Dogen,; Dåogen,
First sentence: The first known appearance in the world of the concept of emptiness as an essential aspect of spiritual awareness was in Buddhism in the sixth century B.C.E. From Buddhism's very beginning, emptiness was an essential, central doctrine, deriving from the basic idea of no-self, or selflessness (anatman in Sanskrit).