Philosophy Psychoanalysis Religion Theologie Theology Lacan Physics Mathematics Psychotherapy Thinking | | You are made in the image of what you desire. To unify your life unify your desires. To spiritualize your life, spiritualize your desires. To spiritualize your desires, desire to be without desire.
Thomas Merton, Firewatch, p. 55
Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Theology. His main work, the Summa Theologica, is available online. Quotes by mystics: Meister Eckhart (c.1260 - 1327/8), Mansur Al-Hallaj, (858-922). A short biography of Martin Luther (1483 - 1546), and his autobiographical texts on the meaning of faith and on the so-called "Tower experience", which allowed him to understand "justification through faith." Proofs for the existence of God? Occasionally, philosophers or theologians thought that they have a very convincing argument for the existence of God. I have collected four examples: the five arguments from Thomas, the ontological argument, the Kalam cosmological argument (from time,) and Kurt Gödel`s argument from logic. (This is not a joke) Walter Benjamin: The Jewish Mysticism of History. I was sent forth from the power: (An early Christian text from the Nag Hammadi library) Zen Koans. Genjokoan. Written by Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), who brought what is now called the Soto school of Zen Buddhism to Japan from China. He wrote the first important Buddhist works in Japanese (rather than Chinese), and his masterwork, the Shobogenzo, is considered to be both a literary and religious classic. He also founded the Eiheiji temple. The first chapter in the Shobogenzo is called "Genjokoan", and it is a fundamental Zen-Buddhist text. I also collected some of his poems here. Instructions for the Cook: A short passage from Dogens Tenzo Kyokun. Chuang Tsu's butterfly dream, and other sayings. Buddha's First Sermon: "Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Law." This text contains the four noble truths of Buddhism, and a description of the eight-fold paths to enlightenment.
External Links:
The Bible Gateway The Catholic Encyclopedia, a massive collaborative online project. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook. The Soto Zen Text Project at Stanford. How to do Zazen? What is Theravada Buddhism? Mysticism in World Religions - mostly a collection of quotes.
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