Savory, Teo, 22, 22n.
Schickel, William, 75
Schillebeeckz, Fr. Edward, 297
Schillebeeckz, Fr. Louis, 297
Schmidlin, Br. Richard, 11
Schumann, Martha, 27
Seabury Press, 16
“Secular Saint, The” (Novak), 84
Seeds of Contemplation (Merton), 22
Seitz, Ron and Sally, xv, 54, 117, 130, 157, 158, 160, 163, 180, 186
Selected Poems (Lawrence), 301; “lighthouse” stanza, 302
“Selections from the Dialogues of the Zen Master Shen Hui (8th century A.D.),” 45, 45n., 76
Sensation Time at the Home (Merton), 286, 286n.
Seven Storey Mountain, The (Merton), xiii, 311
Shalom, Sister, 110
Shaw, Bernard, 28
Sheep, 94–95
Shepherd, Bob, 4, 49, 86–87, 128, 162
Shepherd, Hanna, 49, 86–87, 162
Sherburne, Fr. Richard, 273, 273n., 277–78
Shine, Bro. Kevin, 8
Siddhartha (Hesse), xvi, 209, 209n.
Silence, 54
Singapore, 324–26
Sisters of Loretto, 20, 20n., 123, 145, 265
Sisto, Dick, 130
Sitting Bull/Wounded Knee, 14
Situorang, Sitor, 163
Slate, John, 11
Smith, Carleton, 19
Smith, E. Gene, 235, 235n., 277
Smith, Huston, 222, 222n., 226
Smith, Raphael, 19
Smith, T.J., 84, 289
Snakes, 107, 121, 153
Snyder, Gary, 23, 60
Sobhana, Venerable Chao Khun Sasana, 211–12
Soedjatmoko, Giacomo, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165
Solitude, 122, 127, 130, 132, 135, 137, 139, 142, 146, 153, 162, 200, 241, 252, 278, 282, 287, 290
Sopa, Geshe, 251
Spicehandler, Ezra, 221
Spring, 58–59, 62, 63, 64, 84
Springs of Contemplation, The (Richardson, ed.), 20n.
Stanford, Fr. Maurice, 276, 276n.
Stark, Phil, 125, 141, 150, 157, 166
Steindl-Rast, Bro. David, 83, 240
Steppenwolf (Hesse), 325, 325n., 327
Stier, Victor, 309, 309n.
Studies in Human Time, 92n.
“Study of Zen, The” (Merton), 60
Styron, William, 34
Sufism, 10, 119, 156, 231, 236
Summer, 126, 131, 142, 144, 151, 152, 154, 155, 156, 157
Suzuki, 251, 251n.
Syvestrines, 311
Tadié, Marie, 6, 6n., 52
Talbott, Harold, xv, xvii, 164, 164n., 226, 229, 232, 235, 236, 237, 242, 243, 246, 249, 266, 268, 271, 272, 277, 281, 293, 294
“Tenebrae” (Levertov), 22
Ten Rungs (Buber), 47
Terry, Clark, 54
Theology of Experience, The (Haughton), 4n.
Theology of Proclamation (Rahner), 72, 72n., 74
Theopane the Recluse, 98
Theory and Practice of the Mandala, The (Tucci), 227
Thera, Nyanaponika, 289, 310
Thomas, Bro., 44
Thompson, Fr. August, 154
Tibet, 28, 145, 146n.; dance, 234–35; exiled Tibetans, 219, 226, 231, 237–38, 243, 246, 264, 271, 272, 273, 275, 276, 280, 310; music, 234; saying, 237, 265. See also Buddhism, Tibetan; Dalai Lama
Tibetan Book of the Dead. 171, 172, 172n., 227
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (Evans-Wentz), 206
Time-Life Bible, Merton’s introduction, 26, 28, 298, 298n.
Timothy, Fr., 25, 161
Tlinglit Indians, 191, 192
Tobin, Sr. Mary Luke, 20, 20n., 145
“Torch-bearer’s Race, The” (Jeffers), 167, 167n.
Torpey, Fr. Gilbert, 154
Trappist order, xiii, 46, 149, 159, 194, 199n., 241, 275
Travels in Yucatan (Stephens), 23
Tristes Tropiques (Lévi-Strauss), 15
Tseten, Geshe Ugyen, 252
Tucci, Giuseppe, xvii, 227–28, 229, 233, 234, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242–43, 244, 246
Tukaram, 295
Twilight in Italy (Lawrence), 290, 290n., 301, 306
Unamuno, de, Miguel, 95–96, 96n.
Under a Glass Bell (Nin), 281, 283, 283n.
U. S. Catholic Reporter, Merton in, 62, 66
U. S. S. Pueblo incident, 46, 47, 50, 65, 69
Utah, 94–95
Vahiduddin, Syed, 231, 236
Vatican II, 20n., 30
Verdier, Fr. P., 328, 328n.
Veronica, Sister, 110, 119
Victor, Bro., 46, 128
Vidyapati, 302
Vietnam War, S, 12–13, 22, 35, 46–47, 51, 52, 57, 58, 61, 65, 76, 77, 88, 139, 142–43, 183n., 243–44, 250
Violence, 47, 51, 66–67, 69, 79, 86, 151, 155
Vira, Raghu, 230
Vita Monastica, 8
Volkaert, Fr., 297
“Vow of Conversation” (Merton), 35, 143
Waddell, Fr. Chrysogonus, 8, 42, 298
Wagner, Dom Eusebius, 41
Walden Two (Skinner), 75
Walsh, Fr. Daniel, xv–xvi, 8, 8n., 48, 65, 76, 101, 126, 127, 128, 186, 298
Walsh, Richard, 136
“War and the Crisis of Language” (Merton), 324, 324n.
“War and the Crisis of Meaning” (Merton), 81
Washington Peace Mobilization, 1967, 5
Webster, Portia, postulant, 101, 110, 201
Weisskopf, Walter, 70
Wei Tat, 221, 221n., 223
“Wild Places” (Merton), 99, 99n.
Wilfrid, Bro., 20
William, Sister, 110
Williams, Emmett, 298
Williams, Jonathan, 3, 4
Williams, Robert, 73, 135
Willett, John, 126
Willett, Thompson, 25, 75, 76
Wilson, Keith, 28, 45
Winter, 33–34, 36, 37, 44, 52, 54–55, 56, 58, 60, 61
Winzen, Dom Damasus, 83
Wolff, Helen, 35
Woods, Shore, Desert (Merton), xiv
Work, 103
Wu, John, 132, 141
Wygal, James, 6, 57, 63, 142–43
Yelchaninov, Alexander, 92, 92n., 100
Yoga, 175, 176
Yungblut, John, 31, 79
Yungblut, June, 13, 31, 79, 145, 159
Yves, Frère, 151
Zen and the Birds of Appetite (Merton), 60n., 61, 133n.
Zukofsky, Louis, 30
Acknowledgments
This is the seventh and final volume of Thomas Merton’s personal journals, a project that began in 1990 when the trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust entered into a contract with HarperSanFrancisco Publishers. Shortly after I was appointed general editor of the series, plans were made to seek out various Merton scholars who would be willing to be editors for a portion of the journals. We were very fortunate to find these editors, who have all greatly excelled at cooperation, hard work, and meeting deadlines! lowe an enormous debt of gratitude to each of them: Christine M. Bochen, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Robert E. Daggy, Victor A. Kramer, and Jonathan Montaldo.
There were countless other persons who assisted in this long-range project, and once again I want to express my deep gratitude to Abbot Timothy Kelly and the community of Gethsemani for allowing me the time and space to undertake and complete this work.
The trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust (currently Robert Giroux, James Laughlin, and Tommie O’Callaghan) have been cooperative in supporting the project, and Anne McCormick, secretary for the Merton Legacy Trust, has expedited matters with HarperSanFrancisco over the years. James Laughlin in particular must be singled out for a word of special thanks, since he did the lion’s share of the research and negotiations on the original manuscript of The Asian Journal, which he edited in conjunction with Naomi Burton Stone and myself, with the invaluable assistance of Amiya Chakravarty. It was Mr. Laughlin who contacted the
various persons mentioned in this last journal to verify words and phrases sometimes quite unfamiliar to the other editors and at times indecipherable. I also want to thank him and New Directions for allowing us to use the published version of the Alaskan and Asian journals. We have included neither the various appendixes, nor the section on Merton’s supplementary readings, nor the many photographs he took during his Asian pilgrimage, but only what was, strictly speaking, journal. We want to recommend that readers desiring a more complete account of Merton’s journey to the Far East consult the New Directions editions of Thomas Merton in Alaska and The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton.
I am grateful to the Museum of New Mexico Press for permission to use material from Woods, Shore, Desert, Merton’s May 1968 notebook, published in 1982. Joel Weishaus provided an introduction and notes to this volume, although Merton himself had made the selections for this small journal from his ongoing journal. He had dictated it onto a tape, which he sent to Mary Ann Schmidt of Waldorf, Maryland, who transcribed it and returned the typescript for his final correction. We are indebted to Mary Ann Schmidt and Joel Weishaus for their help in this first publishing venture with the Museum of New Mexico Press.
In preparing the last volume of the journals, I was greatly assisted by Robert E. Daggy, director of the Merton Center at Bellarmine College, Erlinda Paguio, and Phil Sager, reference librarian at the University of Louisville Library. Tim Fullerton of Ann Arbor, Michigan, an acknowledged authority on the Far East and its various monastic traditions, checked the manuscript for spelling and also prepared the glossary of Asian terms found in the back of the book as an appendix. For all these services I am deeply grateful.
There are many others who have contributed in one way or another to this project, including Brothers Elias Dietz, Paul Quenon, Anton Rusnak, Malachy Samanns, and Columban (a.k.a. Richard) Weber of Gethsemani Abbey, Patrick O’Connell of Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania, Ron Seitz of Fountain Hills, Arizona, Robert Urekew of St. Catherine’s College, Springfield, Kentucky, and Ron Whitehead of Literary Renaissance for his insights into the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Finally my heartfelt thanks to John Loudon, Karen Levine, Terri Leonard, and the entire staff at HarperSanFrancisco for their untiring cooperation and patience demonstrated on numerous occasions during the years of collaboration on this monumental undertaking.
BOOKS BY THOMAS MERTON
The Seven Storey Mountain
The Sign of Jonas
New Seeds of Contemplation
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Zen and the Birds of Appetite
The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton
Mystics and Zen Masters
The Hidden Ground of Love (Letters I)
The Road to Joy (Letters II)
The School of Charity (Letters III)
The Courage for Truth (Letters IV)
Witness to Freedom (Letters V)
Love and Living
The Monastic Journey
The Asian Journal
Run to the Mountain (Journals I)
A Search for Solitude (Journals III)
Turning Toward the World (Journals IV)
Dancing in the Water of Life (Journals V)
Learning to Love (Journals VI)
Copyright
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
For journal material by Thomas Merton in Woods, Shore, Desert, used by permission of The Musewn of New Mexico Press. For material by Thomas Merton from The Asian Journals of Thomas Merton, copyright © 1975 by The Trustees of me Merton Legacy Trust, and from Thomas Merton in Alaska, copyright © 1989 by The Merton Legacy Trust. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. For lines from In Praise of Krishna by Edward C. Dimock and Denise Levertov. Copyright © 1967 by The Asia Society, Inc. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. For lines from Selected Poems by Robinson Jeffers. Copyright © 1925 and renewed 1953 by Robinson Jeffers. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. For lines from “Virgin Youth,” from The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence by D.H. Lawrence, edited by V. de Sola Pinto and F. W: Roberts. Copyright © 1964, 1971 hy Angelo Ravagli and C. M. Weekley, Executors of me Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., Laurence Pollinger Limited, and the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN: The End of the Journey. Copyright © 1998 by The Merton Legacy Trust. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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The other side of the mountain: the end of me journey / Thomas Merton: edited by Patrick Hart.
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1 Doris Dana was a friend of Jacques and Raïssa Maritain and was part of the literary and artistic circle, including John Howard Griffin, who spent time at Kolbsheim, the chateau of the Gruneliuses near Strasbourg.
2 The photograph of Rosemary Haughton by Thomas Merton did indeed turn out well; in fact, it has been used on the jacket of one of Haughton’s books, The Theology of Experience (New York: Newman Press, 1972).
3 “The Sacred City” was later included in a volume of essays by Merton on Native Americans titled Ishi Means Man with an introduction by Dorothy Day, which was published by Unicorn Press (Greensboro, NC) in 1976.
4 Marie Tadié was Merton’s French translator and agent.
5 Rev. Daniel C. Walsh (1907–75) was Merton’s teacher and friend at Columbia University. When he retired from Columbia and Manhattanville, he came to Kentucky, where he taught philosophy at Gethsemani as well as at Bellarmine College and St. Mary’s Seminary.
6 “Edelin’s” (or “Edelin’s place”) was named after Everett Edelin, who gave some wooded property close to Gethsemani for the purpose of establishing a “laura,” or a cluster of hermitages at so
me distance from one another. It eventually became the site of a hermitage for Dom James Fox, the previous abbot.