Journey into Emptiness: Dogen, Merton, Jung, and the Quest for Transformation.(Book Review)

From: Buddhist-Christian Studies | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

By Robert Jingen Gunn. New York: Paulist Press, 2000. xiv + 334 pp.

Written by a New York psychotherapist who also has Zen training, the thesis of this book is that the experience of emptiness is a necessary precondition to spiritual transformation. "Emptiness" is defined as "an experience of being without, of not having, not having answers, not having property, not having love or power or hope" (1). "Transformation" is described as a path that leads to the realization of our rootedness in a transcendent dimension. Three paths of transformation are discussed through three ...

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