Translator: Severiano Talavero Tovar
This book is at the beginning of the contemporary dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity, an issue that continues to have the same relevance as when it was first published, five decades ago, as Javier Melloni states in his introduction.
The Jesuit Hugo Lassalle lived in Japan for more than sixty years. During that time he discovered that Zen meditation could greatly enrich not only Christian faith and prayer, but could also renew the life of anyone, believer or not.
Although many things have changed in the world since this book was written, the keys provided by these pages are still very topical, both to deepen one's own Christian faith and to open oneself to the Eastern way of entering the heart of reality, through silent meditation.
It is the awakening of a new consciousness of the human species that th...read more
