In this collection of essays Merton wrote about complex Asian
concepts with a Western directness.
Merton, one of
the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of
the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners. This
collection, which represents the best of his lucid essays on Zen from
the 1960s, has gone through 20 printings since 1968. Two-color interior.
Zen
and the Birds of Appetite