Unitive Consciousness
The Franciscan monk and author describes how Buddhist teachings and practices can help Christians touch their mystical roots.
Home is the Way- A Christmas Message
Both Jesus and Siddhartha were searching for their true home. They wanted to find a warm abode where they would not have to search for anything anymore and where they would feel truly at home and at peace.
God/Love: the compassionate energy of the interconnecting spirit.
. . . "Buddhism is a way of helping Christians to perhaps come to a
deeper and I would say more personal, more mystical experience of God."
Eyes of Thich Nhat Hanh
In a sermon to her church, an American Baptist minister asks, "What does Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh think of Jesus? What difference does that make to me, to you?"
Faith, Mysticism, and Prayer
A video in which the Catholic monk and long-time Buddhist practitioner talks about "the essence" of all spirituality and the importance of intereligious dialogue.
The Holy Spirit and Mindfulness
The Buddhist teacher compares the Christian notion of "the Holy Spirit" to the Buddhist notion of the energy of mindfulness.
Going Back to Our Religious Roots.
Thich Nhat Hanh's answer to a student's question, "What do you mean when you say to go back to our religious roots? How can we do that and continue to study and practice Buddhism, which is so practical and helpful?"
Thich Nhat Hanh's answer to a student's question, "What do you mean when you say to go back to our religious roots? How can we do that and continue to study and practice Buddhism, which is so practical and helpful?"
Conversations with the Master/Awareness
The Jesuit priest, author and spiritual teacher says spirituality is only "waking up".
The Jesuit priest, author and spiritual teacher says spirituality is only "waking up".
An Introduction to Buddhist/Christian Dialogue
Two brief reflections to help facilitate the dialogue.
Two brief reflections to help facilitate the dialogue.
A Lotus Blooming in the Catholic Church
A birth Catholic and long-time Buddhist practitioner who returned to the Catholic church shares his adventures practicing simultaneously in the Catholic and Buddhist traditions
Buddhist Approach to Doctrine
According to the Buddhist experience of deep reality through meditation, all theology, all concepts are only relative truth, pointing to the absolute.
Practice Compassion and Someday You Will Become It
The Catholic nun reflects on her experiences in attending the opening of the Buddhist Dharma Drum Monastery meditation hall.
Notes From Thomas Merton's Asian Journal
In 1968 Thomas Merton went to Asia to explore Asain culture and spirituality and to find a Buddhist teacher to study and practice with. The paragraph below is an exerpt from the final talk he gave on the day of his unexpected death in Bangkok on December 10th 1968.
In 1968 Thomas Merton went to Asia to explore Asain culture and spirituality and to find a Buddhist teacher to study and practice with. The paragraph below is an exerpt from the final talk he gave on the day of his unexpected death in Bangkok on December 10th 1968.