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...host was 25 and had been a monk for four years. Before that he had trained as an acolyte for seven years. He told me that he planned to quit being a monk when he turned 30--a common practice in Lao Buddhism...
...secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being." In search of something that they can hold on to, many people in the West, particularly the young, are either returning to Christian fundamentalism through the Jesus Revolution (TIME, June 21) or turning to the religions of the East, chiefly Buddhism and Hinduism. "The swamis are coming from India, and they're taking away the flock," says Campbell. "They're speaking of religion as dealing with the interior life and not about dogmatic formulae and ritual requirements...
...many forms of Buddhism, the one best known in the West is Zen. Its guiding principles of inward meditation versus doctrine, of emphasis on the visceral and spontaneous as against the cerebral and structured, of inspiration rather than linear "logic," were seized on by the early beatniks, taken up by many of the young today, and were incorporated into the mystique of America's counterculture. But what kind of art did Zen provoke in China and Japan? In a brilliant show that took a year to assemble, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has provided a definitive survey...
...Seven Storey Mountain, the best-selling 1948 autobiography that made a young Trappist monk named Thomas Merton a worldwide sensation, dealt with only part of a life that ended suddenly when Merton, studying Buddhism in Asia, was accidentally electrocuted in Bangkok in 1968. Edward Rice's ingenuous, openhearted memoir rounds out the 33 Mountain years and gives substantial shape to Merton's later years. As biography, the book is frankly worshipful...
...curiosity with his fast-cut, almost cinematic images of his subject's wide-ranging mind: Merton's opposition to World War II because "if we fight Hitler, we will become like him, too"; his prescient 1963 analysis of the bitterness of black revolt; his final turning toward Buddhism as a "way" that could complement Christianity; his incongruous moments, as when he took the time to see What's New, Pussycat? and thought it very funny. Because Merton was a man of such fevers and contradictions, The Man in the Sycamore Tree cannot be so much an explanation...