tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44918019052750220.post1462151659532324091..comments2024-01-16T19:31:28.762-05:00Comments on Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit: Former Jesuit Ruben L.F. Habito On His Jesuit And Zen ExperienceJoseph Frommhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16759274486679530625noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44918019052750220.post-81360839643195866022011-05-22T01:23:32.843-04:002011-05-22T01:23:32.843-04:00To equate the ancient tradition of Zen Buddhism an...To equate the ancient tradition of Zen Buddhism and the practice of zazen with "New Age movements" is laughable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44918019052750220.post-70363519402783851842011-05-14T15:24:29.192-04:002011-05-14T15:24:29.192-04:00"Basically, the New Age Movement is, I repeat..."Basically, the New Age Movement is, I repeat, Oriental Meditation, Oriental Prayer, or Mysticism that has penetrated many Christian circles. There are communities that follow that pattern. For example, there are Religious communities of women that follow the New Age pattern in meditation and prayer. And all I can say is that those communities, which have adopted these New Age ideas are all - I mean this sincerely - in danger of dissolusion. At the root of the New Age Movement, is the denial of an infinite, personal God, who created the world. And consequently, once you say that than how much you use the name God, no matter how much you talk about prayer and meditation, that prayer and mediation is no longer to God, but either to the unknown forces in the world or to one's self. And, you know, all I can say is, that one reason the New Age Movement has so deeply infected, as I should say, the Western world is because the Western world, unlike the Oriental world, has become very materialistic. Preoccupied with things that you can touch, taste, feel, see, experience with your body. The Western world needs a reformation. It needs to discover that there is a real world that you cannot touch, taste, see with your bodily eyes, or hear with the bodily ears. The real world - God is very real, God is God, does not have a body or extension in space, or size or weight. There is the angelic world, which is, as we say purely spiritual. Each angel is an individual person. Each of us, we believe, has a spirit; our souls dwelling within us. We believe this spirit, our soul, continues living consciously after the body dies".<br /><br />--John Hardon SJ<br /><br />They are smarter, and always, always know better.Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02704944620839677383noreply@blogger.com