Title: The silent dialogue
First published: 1996
Description: In August 1974, following conversion to the Catholic faith while living in a Trappist monastery, David Hackett set out on a two-year journey to Japan and Southeast Asia. Hackett became a Catholic through Zen meditation and an understanding of Catholicism acquired by the patient guidance of a Trappist monk. Yet baptism marked the beginning of a new inquiry. What was the relationship between Buddhism and Catholicism? And how could Zen meditation best be employed to deepen Christian faith?

Asking these questions, Hackett began a journey which led to meetings and meditations with Catholic priests and Zen masters sympathetic to Catholicism. The letters which he sent to Father Thomas Keating - one of the founders of the Contemplative Prayer movement - chronicle Hackett's changing experience with Zen meditation and Christianity.
Subjects: Zen Buddhism, Spiritual life, Relations, Catholic Church, Catholic church, relations, Spiritual life, zen buddhism
LC classification: BQ9269.4.C35 H33 1996