| Author Quoted | William Johnston S.J. |
| Title Quoted | Mysticism of the Cloud of Unknowing |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/05/29 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1966 |
| Quotation | Thanks for your letter of the 13th. Your project on The Cloud and Zen sounds interesting, and so, though I have made all kinds of resolutions to refuse this kind of thing, I want to make an exception and at least glance at your ms. The rest is up to the Holy Ghost: and time. I will send whatever comment is possible in the circumstances, long or short, and you will have to take your chance on it being either intelligent or idiotic. At present I am reading Fr. Enomiye Lasalle's book in German with very great interest. Naturally I enjoyed Fr. Dumoulin's book as you and he know. I wrote a rather longer and more detailed article published in a more or less unknown new magazine, and I will send it along. I felt that Fr. Dumoulin had been a little unreceptive to Hui Neng, but I think that goes naturally with his instinctive preference for Soto Zen (The Cloud, too, is more like Soto). |
| Quotation Source | The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 440 |
| Letter to | William Johnston |
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