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from Chuang Tzu
by Thomas Merton
Chuang
Tzu was a Taoist sage, living sometime before 250 B.C. The book Chuang Tzu is
believed to contain both his own writings and writings by others about him and
his teachings. The quotations at this site were taken from The Way of Chuang Tzu,
which was compiled by Thomas Merton (a Roman Catholic monk) after reading four
different translations of Chuang Tzu. It is an abridged version of Chuang Tzu.
As Thomas Merton
says in his introductory note, you enter upon the way of Chuang Tzu when you leave
all ways and get lost.
Uncreated
To
name Tao is to name no-thing.
Tao is not the name of (something created).
"Cause" and "chance" have no bearing on the Tao.
Tao is a name that indicates without defining.
Tao
is beyond words and beyond things.
It is not expressed either in word or
in silence.
Where there is no longer word or silence
Tao is apprehended.
(25:11, p. 226)
Beyond
human knowledge and understanding
Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
(2:2, p. 55)
By
ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown
to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.
(9:2,
p. 101)
Distinguishing
ego from true self
All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object.
Among them all, man alone is more than an object.
Though, like objects, he
has form and semblance,
He is not limited to form.
He is more.
He can attain to formlessness.
When
he is beyond form and semblance, beyond "this" and "that,"
where is the comparison with another object?
Where is the conflict?
What can stand in his way?
He will rest in his eternal place which is
no-place.
He will be hidden in his own unfathomable secret.
His nature
sinks to its root in the One.
His vitality, his power hide in secret Tao.
(19:2, pp 155-156)
Understanding
the nature of desire
When he tries to extend his power over objects,
those objects gain control
of him.
He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his inner self...
Prisoners in the world of object,
they have no choice but to submit
to the demands of matter!
They are pressed down and crushed by external forces:
fashion, the market, events, public opinion.
Never in a whole lifetime
do they recover their right mind!...
What a pity!
(23:8 and 24:4, p.
202, 211)
You
train your eye and your vision lusts after color.
You train your ear, and
you long for delightful sound.
You delight in doing good, and your natural
kindness is blown out of shape.
You delight in righteousness, and you become
righteous beyond all reason.
You overdo liturgy, and you turn into a ham
actor.
Overdo your love of music, and you play corn.
Love of wisdom
leads to wise contriving.
Love of knowledge leads to faultfinding.
If
men would stay as they really are, taking or leaving these eight delights would
make no difference.
But if they will not rest in their right state, the eight
delights develop like malignant tumors.
The world falls into confusion.
Since men honour these delights, and lust after them, the world has gone stone-blind.
When the delight is over, they still will not let go of it...
(11:1-2,
pp. 103-104)
Love
of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right.
Love of harmonies
bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing.
Love of perfumes fills
the head with dizziness.
Love of flavors ruins the taste.
Desires unsettle
the heart until the original nature runs amok.
These
five are enemies of true life.
Yet these are what men of discernment claim
to live for.
They are not what I live for.
If this is life, then pigeons
in a cage have found happiness!
(12:15, p. 118)
Becoming
unattached
Yen
Hui:
What is fasting of the heart?
Confucius:
The goal of fasting
is inner unity.
This means hearing, but not with the ear;
hearing, but
not with the understanding;
hearing with the spirit, with your whole being...
The hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, to the ear,
or to the mind.
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties.
And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens.
There is
then a direct grasp of what is right there before you
that can never be heard
with the ear or understood with the mind.
Fasting of the heart empties the
faculties, frees you from limitation and from preoccupation.
Fasting of the
heart begets unity and freedom.
Yen Hui:
I see. What was standing in
my way was my own self-awareness. If I can begin this fasting of the heart, self
awareness will vanish.
(4:1, pp. 75-76)
Forgetting
about preferences
Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites,
or concentrate
only on a partial aspect of being.
Then clear expression also becomes muddled
by mere wordplay,
affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest.
The
pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge.
He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point
from which all movements
and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship...
Abandoning all
thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.
(2:3, p. 59, p.61)
When
we look at things in the light of Tao, nothing is best, nothing is worst.
Each thing, seen in its own light stands out in its own way.
It can seem
to be "better" than what is compared with it on its own terms.
But seen in terms of the whole, no one thing stands out as "better"
...
All creatures have gifts of their own...
All things have varying
capacities.
Consequently
he who wants to have right without wrong, order without disorder,
does not
understand the principles of heaven and earth.
He does not know how things
hang together.
Can a man cling only to heaven and know nothing of earth?
They are correlative: to know one is to know the other.
To refuse one
is to refuse both.
(17:4,5,8, pp. 131-133)
When
the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten.
When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten.
When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten.
No
drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions:
Then your affairs are under
control.
You are a free man.
(19:12, pp. 166-167)
Paraphrased:
When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral.
However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement,
birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground
I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have
against birds?"
(32:14, pp. 233-234)
Not
working for personal gain
When
an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill.
If he shoots for
a brass buckle, he is already nervous.
If he shoots for a prize of gold,
he goes blind or sees two targets --
He is out of his mind!
His skill
has not changed. But the prize divides him.
He cares. He thinks more of winning
than of shooting--
And the need to win drains him of power.
(19:4, p.
158)
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken
by anything. The sage is quiet because he is not moved, not because he wills to
be quiet...
Joy does all things without concern. For emptiness, stillness,
tranquillity, tastelessness, silence, and non-action are the root of all things.
(13:1, pp. 119, 121)
Prince Wen Hui's cook was cutting up an ox ... The ox fell apart with a whisper. The bright cleaver murmured like a gentle wind. Rhythm! Timing! Like a sacred dance ...
Prince
Wen Hui:
Good work! Your method is faultless!
The
cook:
Method? What I follow is Tao beyond all methods!
When I first
began to cut up oxen I would see before me the whole ox all in one mass. After
three years I no longer saw this mass. I saw the distinctions. But now I see nothing
with the eye. My whole being apprehends. My senses are idle. The spirit free to
work without plan follows its own instinct guided by natural line, by the secret
opening, the hidden space, my cleaver finds its own way...
Then I withdraw the blade, I stand still and let the joy of the work sink in. I clean the blade and put it away.
Prince Wan Hui:
This is it! My cook has shown me how I ought to live my own
life!
(3:2, pp. 64-67)
Letting
go of thoughts
To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting
in Tao.
To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward
attaining Tao.
(22:1, p. 176)
The
mind remains undetermined in the great Void.
Here the highest knowledge is
unbounded.
That which gives things their thusness cannot be delimited by
things.
So when we speak of 'limits', we remain confined to limited things.
The limit of the unlimited is called 'fullness.'
The limitlessness of
the limited is called 'emptiness.'
Tao is the source of both.
But it
is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
(22:6, pp. 182-183)
Being
humble
If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff,
even though he be a bad-tempered man he will not become very angry.
But if he sees a man in the boat, he will shout at him to steer clear.
If
the shout is not heard, he will shout again, and yet again, and begin cursing.
And all because there is somebody in the boat.
Yet if the boat were
empty, he would not be shouting, and not angry.
If
you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world,
no one will
oppose you, no one will seek to harm you....
Who
can free himself from achievement, and from fame, descend and be lost amid the
masses of men?
He will flow like Tao, unseen, he will go about like Life
itself with no name and no home.
Simple is he, without distinction. To all
appearances he is a fool.
His steps leave no trace. He has no power. He achieves
nothing, has no reputation.
Since
he judges no one, no one judges him.
Such is the perfect man:
His boat
is empty.
(20:2, 4, pp. 168-171)
The
man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides
himself as perfectly as he can.
(23:2, pp. 187)
Surrendering
If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift),
if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get,
if
you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood,
you will be destroyed
by the very thing you seek.
To
know when to stop,
to know when you can get no further by your own action,
this is the right beginning!
(23:3-7, p. 197)
...
You never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
My greatest happiness
consists precisely in doing nothing whatever that is calculated to obtain happiness:
and this, in the minds of most people, is the worst possible course...
If
you ask "what ought to be done" and "what ought not to be done"
on earth in order to produce happiness,
I answer that these questions do
not have an answer.
There is no way of determining such things.
Yet
at the same time, if I cease striving for happiness,
the "right' and
the "wrong" at once become apparent all by themselves.
Contentment
and well-being at once become possible
the moment you cease to act with them
in view,
and if you practice non-doing (wu wei), you will have both happiness
and well-being.
(18:1, pp. 140-150)
Seeing
the light
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of
it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart
is full of light.
(4:1, pp. 77-78)
Experiencing
freedom
The true men of old were not afraid when they stood alone in their views.
No great exploits. No plans.
If they failed, no sorrow.
No self-congratulation
in success...
The
true men of old knew no lust for life, no dread of death.
Their entrance
was without gladness, their exit, yonder, without resistance.
Easy come,
easy go.
They did not forget where from, nor ask where to, nor drive grimly
forward fighting their way through life.
They took life as it came, gladly;
took death as it came, without care; and went away, yonder. Yonder!
They
had no mind to fight Tao.
They did not try by their own contriving, to help
Tao along.
These are the ones we call true men.
Minds
free, thoughts gone. Brows clear, faces serene.
(6:1, pp. 89-90)
Goods
and possessions are no gain in his eyes.
He stays far from wealth and honor.
Long life is no ground for joy, nor early death for sorrow.
Success
is not for him to be pround of, failure is no shame.
Had he all the world's
power he would not hold it as his own.
If he conquered everything he would
not take it to himself.
His glory is in knowing that all things come together
in One and life and death are equal.
(12:2, pp. 106-107)
The
man in whom Tao acts without impediment harms no other being by his actions
yet he does not know himself to be "kind", to be "gentle"...
(He) does not bother with his own interests and does not despise others who
do.
He does not struggle to make money and does not make a virtue of poverty.
He goes his way without relying on others and does not pride himself on walking
alone.
While he does not follow the crowd he won't complain of those who
do.
Rank and reward make no appeal to him; disgrace and shame do not deter
him.
He is not always looking for right and wrong, always deciding "Yes"
or "No."
The ancients said, therefore:
The
man of Tao remains unknown.
Perfect virtue produces nothing.
"No-Self"
is "True-Self".
And the greatest man is Nobody.
(17:3, pp.
137-138)
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Adams, Daniel J. Thomas Merton's shared contemplation : a Protestant perspective / Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, 1979. 361 p. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 A64
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. The city of God / New York : Modern Library, 1983. p. cm.
Bailey, Raymond, 1938- Thomas Merton on mysticism / Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1975. 239 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 B28 1975
Baker, James Thomas. Thomas Merton, social critic; a study. Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1971 ix, 173 p. 25 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 B3
Baker, James Thomas. Under the sign of the waterbearer : a life of Thomas Merton : play / Louisville, Ky. : Love Street Books, c1976. 84 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3552.A428 U5
Bolshakoff, Serge. Russian mystics / Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, 1977, c1976. xxx, 303 p. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BV5077.R8 B6413
Breit, Marquita, 1942- Thomas Merton : a comprehensive bibliography / New ed. New York : Garland Pub., 1986. xiv, 710 p. ; LC CALL NUMBER: Z8570.6 .B73 1986
Breit, Marquita, 1942- Thomas Merton: a bibliography. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1974. xvii, 180 p. 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: Z8570.6 .B73 1974
Callahan, Annice, 1945- Spiritual guides for today : Evelyn Underhill, Dorothy Day, Karl Rahner, Simone Weil, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen / New York : Crossroad, 1992. 176 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BV4490 .C35 1991
Capps, Walter H. Hope against hope : Molton i.e. Moltmann to Merton in one decade / Philadelphia : Fortress Press, c1976. xxiii, 167 p. ; 20 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BV4638 .C27
Cardenal, Ernesto. Vida en el amor / 1. ed. Managua : Ediciones Nicarao, 1992 160 p. ; 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX2186 .C268 1992
Carr, Anne E. A search for wisdom and spirit : Thomas Merton's theology of the self / Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, c1988. xii, 171 p. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BT701.2 .C2955 1988
Cashen, Richard Anthony. Solitude in the thought of Thomas Merton / Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, 1981. vii, 201 LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 C37
Casotti, Francesco M. (Francesco Maria) Thomas Merton, uomo e poeta / Pisa : Pacini, 1974. 159 p., 2 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 25 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3525.E7174 Z62
Christian spirituality in the United States : independence and interdependence / Villanova, Pa. : Villanova University Press, c1978. xi, 214 p. ; 23 LC CALL NUMBER: BR515 .C52
Christopher, Kenneth. Ten Catholics : lives to remember / Minneapolis, MN : Winston Press, c1983. 90 p. ; 18 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4670 .C44 1983
Cooper, David D. Thomas Merton's art of denial : the evolution of a radical humanist / Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1989. xiv, 304 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3525.E7174 Z63 1989
Day, Thomas, 1748-1789. The history of Sandford and Merton / New York : Garland Pub., 1977. 3 v. ; 19 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PZ6.D333 Hi25
De Waal, Esther. A seven day journey with Thomas Merton / Ann Arbor, Mich. : Servant Publications, c1992. 114 p.: ill.; 25 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX2350.2 .D4833 1992
Del Prete, Thomas. Thomas Merton and the education of the whole person / Birmingham, Ala. : Religious Education Press, c1990. 195 p. 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BT738.17 .D44 1990
Dell'Isola, Frank. Thomas Merton; a bibliography. 1st rev. and expanded ed. Kent, Ohio Kent State University Press 1975 xvii, 220 p. 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: Z8570.6 .D4 1975 Evans, Fallon, comp. J. F. Powers. St. Louis, Herder 1968 vii, 118 p. 18 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3566.O84 Z67
Finley, James. Merton's Palace of Nowhere : a search for God through awareness of the true self / Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, c1978. 158 p. ; 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX2350.2 .F48 Forest, James H. Living with wisdom : a life of Thomas Merton / Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c1991. xiii, 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M5 F67 1991
Forest, James H. Thomas Merton, a pictorial biography / New York : Paulist Press, c1980. 102 p., 2 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 F67
Furlong, Monica. Merton : a biography / 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1980. xx, 342 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill.; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 F87
Gethsemani; a life of praise. n.p., 1966 1 v. (unpaged) illus. 29 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX2525.N35 G3
Givey, David W. The social thought of Thomas Merton : the way of nonviolence and peace for the future / Chicago : Franciscan Herald Press, c1983. xix, 135 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BT736.6 .G58 1983
Grayston, Donald. Thomas Merton, the development of a spiritual theologian / New York : E. Mellen Press, c1985. viii, 220 p. ; 24 LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 G7 1985
Griffin, John Howard, 1920- comp. A hidden wholeness; the visual world of Thomas Merton. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1970. 146 p. illus., ports. 29 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: TR647.M4 G7
Griffin, John Howard, 1920- Follow the ecstasy : Thomas Merton, the hermitage years, 1965-1968 / Fort Worth, Tex. (3816 W. Biddison, Fort Worth 76109) : JHG Editions/Latitudes Press, c1983. 207 p. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 G75 1983
Griffin, John Howard, 1920- The hermitage journals : a diary kept while working on the biography of Thomas Merton, Garden City, N.Y. : Image Books, 1983, c1981. x, 230 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.G62244 A33 1983
Groves, Gerald. Up and down Merton's mountain / St. Louis, Mo. : CBP Press, c1988. 207 p. : ports. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4668.3.G76 A3 1988
Guigo I, Prior of the Grande Chartreuse, 1083?-1136. The solitary life : a letter of Guigo ; introduced and translated from the Latin by Thomas Merton. Worcester Worcestershire : Abbey of Gethsemani? , 1963 (Worcester Worcestershire : Stanbrook Abbey Press) 11 p. ; 15 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX2435 .G8413 1963(Rare Bk Coll)
Hart, Patrick, comp. Thomas Merton, monk : a monastic tribute / London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. 224 p. : ill.; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 H37 1975
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker, 1944- Archetypes of conversion : the autobiographies of Augustine, Bunyan, and Merton /Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c1985. 191 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BR1700.2 .H34 1985
Higgins, John J. Thomas Merton on prayer Garden City, N.Y., Image Books, 1975, c1971. 200 p. 18 cm. Higgins, John J. Thomas Merton on prayer Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1973 c1971 192 p. 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BV207 .H53 1973
Johnston, William, 1925- The mysticism of the Cloud of unknowing / Trabuco Canyon, Calif. : Source Books ; Wheathampstead, Herts : A. Clarke, 1992. xviii, 285 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BV5080.C6 J65 1992
Kelly, Frederic Joseph, 1922- Man before God; Thomas Merton on social responsibility. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1974. xxiv, 287 p. 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 K44
Kilcourse, George, 1947- Ace of freedoms : Thomas Merton's Christ / Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1993. xii, 273 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BT198 .K53 1993
King, Thomas Mulvihill, 1929- Merton : mystic at the center of America / Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, c1992. x, 150 p. ; LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 K55 1992
Kountz, Peter. Thomas Merton as writer and monk : a cultural study, 1915-1951 / Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1991. xxx, 208 p. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 K68 1991
Kramer, Victor A. Thomas Merton / Boston : Twayne Publishers, c1984. 181 p. : port. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3525.E7174 Z73 1984 Kramer, Victor A. Thomas Merton, monk and artist / Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, 1987 c1984. 226 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3525.E7174 Z73 1987
Labrie, Ross. The art of Thomas Merton / Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, c1979. xiii, 188 p. : port. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3525.E7174 Z76
Lentfoehr, Therese, 1902- Words and silence : on the poetry of Thomas Merton / New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., c1979. viii, 166 p. ; 20 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3525.E7174 Z77 1979
Lipski, Alexander, 1919- Thomas Merton and Asia : his quest for utopia / Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, 1983 iv, 92 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 L56 1983
Malits, Elena. The solitary explorer : Thomas Merton's transforming journey / 1st ed. San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1980. xiii, 175 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 M34 1980
McInerny, Dennis Q. Thomas Merton; the man and his work Spencer, Mass. Cistercian Publications; distributed by Consortium Pr ess, Washington, 1974. xii, 128 p. 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 M3
Meatyard, Ralph Eugene, 1925-1972. Father Louie : photographs of Thomas Merton / New York : Timken Publishers, c1991. 103 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 M36 1991
Merton, by those who knew him best / 1st ed. San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1984. xvi, 171 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 M39 1984
Nouwen, Henri J. M. Pray to live. Thomas Merton: a contemplative critic Notre Dame, Ind., Fides Publishers 1972 x, 157 p. 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 N6813
Nouwen, Henri J. M. Thomas Merton, contemplative critic / New York, N.Y. : Triumph Books, 1991. x, 158 p. ; 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 N6813 1991
Padovano, Anthony T. Contemplation and compassion : Thomas Merton's vision / White Plains, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Kampmann, c1984. 61 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX2182.2 .P25 1984
Padovano, Anthony T. The human journey : Thomas Merton, symbol of a century / 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1982. xviii, 193 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 P33
Palmer, Parker J. In the belly of a paradox : a celebration of contradictions in the thought of Thomas Merton / Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Publications, c1979. 32 p. ; 19 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 P34
Pennington, M. Basil. A retreat with Thomas Merton / Rockport, MA : Element, 1991. p. cm.
Pennington, M. Basil. A retreat with Thomas Merton / Rockport, MA : Element, 1991. p. cm.
Pennington, M. Basil. Thomas Merton, brother monk : the quest for true freedom / 1st ed. San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1987. xvii, 205 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 P46 1987
Powaski, Ronald E. Thomas Merton on nuclear weapons / Chicago : Loyola University Press, c1988. xiii, 169 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BT736.2 .P68 1988
Rice, Edward. The man in the sycamore tree : the good times and hard life of Thomas Merton : an entertainment with photographs / 1st Harvest/HBJ ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. 137 p. ill. ; 20 cm.
Ronfard, Bruno. Thomas Merton : moine et ecrivain / Paris : Desclee de Brouwer, c1992. 121 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 R66 1992
Saints are now : eight portraits of modern sanctity / Garden City, N.Y. : Image Books, 1983, c1981. 222 p. ; 18 cm.
Seitz, Ron. Song for nobody : a memory vision of Thomas Merton / 1st ed. Liguori, Mo. : Triumph Books, c1993. 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 S45 1993
Seitz, Ron. The Gethsemani poems : from within the walls of the Abbey of Gethsemani, the monastery at Trappist, Kentucky, home of Thomas Merton, monk & poet / Monterey, Ky. (Route 3, Monterey, Ky. 40359) : Larkspur Press, 1985. 67 p. ; 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3569.E543 G4 1985 (Rare Bk Coll)
Shannon, William Henry, 1917- Silent lamp : the Thomas Merton story / New York : Crossroad, 1992. xvi, 304 p. : ill.; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 S48 1992
Shannon, William Henry, 1917- Silent lamp : the Thomas Merton story / New York : Crossroad, 1992. xvi, 304 p. : ill.; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 S48 1992
Shannon, William Henry, 1917- Thomas Merton's dark path / Rev. ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1987. xxiii, 245 p. ; 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BV5091.C7 S48 1987
Shannon, William Henry, 1917- Thomas Merton's dark path : the inner experience of a contemplative / New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1981. vii, 245 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BV5091.C7 S48 1981
Sussman, Cornelia, 1914- Thomas Merton / Rev. ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Image Books, 1980. 171 p. ; 18 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 S9 1980
Sussman, Cornelia, 1914- Thomas Merton : the daring young man on the flying belltower / New York : Macmillan, c1976. 177 p. : port. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 S9
The Legacy of Thomas Merton / Kalamazoo, MI : Cistercian Publications, 1986. 241 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 L44 1986
The Message of Thomas Merton / Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, 1981. xvi, 213 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 M4
The Thomas Merton Studies Center, Santa Barbara Calif. Unicorn Press, 1971. 24 p. 25 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 T5
Thomas Merton : pilgrim in process / Toronto : Griffin House, 1983. xxxviii, 194 p. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 T485 1983
Thomas Merton, monk : a monastic tribute / New enl. ed. Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, 1983. 278 p. ill.; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 T48 1983
Thomas Merton, prophet in the belly of a paradox / New York : Paulist Press, c1978. viii, 237 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 T49
Through the year with Thomas Merton : daily meditations from his writings / Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1985, c1983. viii, 226 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX2170.C56 M48 1985
Toward an integrated humanity : Thomas Merton's journey / Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, 1988, c1987. vi, 285 p. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 T69 1988
Verba seniorum. English. Selections. The wisdom of the desert / Boston : Shambhala, 1994. p. cm. Voigt, Robert J. Thomas Merton: a different drummer Liguori, Mo., Liguori Publications 1972 127 p. 18 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BX4705.M542 V65
Woodcock, George, 1912- Thomas Merton, monk and poet : a critical study / Vancouver : Douglas and McIntyre, c1978. 200 p., 1 leaf of plates : port. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3525.E7174 Z95
Woodcock, George, 1912- Thomas Merton, monk and poet : a critical study / 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1978. 200 p., 1 leaf of plates : port. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: PS3525.E7174 Z95 1978b