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...drew designs from the book of I Ching on the palm of his hand. But could that be a Yank accent? It was indeed. John Steinbeck Jr., 22, son of the late novelist, has dropped out into a dingy Saigon flat in order to follow his yen for Zen. His teacher: Nguyen Thanh Nam, a mystic generally known as the "Coconut Monk," after his habit of meditating perched atop a palm tree in the middle of an island in the Mekong River. Young Steinbeck and his guru have pursued the cause of peace by presenting U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker with...
Fascinated by Zen. Merton's wide-ranging, eclectic mind could touch upon the Beatles or the Bomb, but for a quarter of a century he never left the Abbey of Gethsemani, except for trips to the doctor or drives with visiting friends around neighboring Kentucky hills. In fact, for almost a decade, with his ab bot's permission, he had withdrawn from much of the community life, living Thoreau-like in a small hermitage on abbey property more than a mile from the main buildings. This year he was finally granted a leave of absence from Gethsemani...
Merton had long been fascinated by Zen, and he argued that Buddhism was a philosophic discipline that could well be employed by Christians. "Buddhism is not word," a he told religion in friends our at sense of the California's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions on his way to Asia in October. "It's a totally different approach to reality, a psychological thing. I be lieve it's quite possible for a Catholic to enter into the esoteric traditions of Tibetan Buddhism." He departed for Asia, said W. H. Ferry of the Center, "absolutely bouncing...
...there. The boy she meets is at the heart of Horovitz's piece; here is a kid who wants to be sensitive, wants to be a poet, wants to be in love. True, he is awkward and amusing (He writes poetry he does not understand, paraphrased from Zen poets), but he is also a human being. As performed by David Pollock, though, he is a silly comic prop--a cardboard version of Art Carney's Ed Norton characterization...
...sense, that is the message of the hippies and the white middle-class youth who are fascinated with dropping out and with rebelling against a system predicated on success. In some way, they may carry a lesson for the U.S. Yet their approach, with its faddish overtones of yoga, zen and similar other-worldly philosophies, is hardly adequate...