Hi ED: I can see that you pay attention only on the surface. If you would have had a click into any of the the other links below in the same page you would have found (as well in the surface) a little bit what he was about by his left works. For instance I paste below just a few quotations from him to give you an idea: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We see people and things not as they are, but as we are. Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. What is love?" "The total absence of fear," said the Master. "What is it we fear?" "Love," said the Master. What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any comment is welcome Mayka
--- On Mon, 28/2/11, ED <[email protected]> wrote: From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: Don't Change - By Anthony De Mello To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 28 February, 2011, 18:22 Controversy A review of de Mello's work by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prompted the group to release a lengthy comment expressing their theological concerns. While the group showed appreciation for many of de Mello's writings, some positions were found to be 'incompatible with the Catholic faith'.[1] In an opinion dated June 24, 1998 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, wrote for the Congregation: "But already in certain passages in [his] early works and to a greater degree in his later publications, one notices a progressive distancing from the essential contents of the Christian faith. ... With the present Notification, in order to protect the good of the Christian faithful, this Congregation declares that the above-mentioned positions are incompatible with the Catholic faith and can cause grave harm." [2] His quite controversial paradigm for Catholic dogma is mainly because many of his ideas were influenced by Thai Buddhist teacher and founder of monasteries Ajahn Chah - who, some[who?] say, was a kind of teacher to him. Despite the church's condemnation, his works are popular, especially among those interested in Ignatian spirituality.[citation needed] Some editions of de Mello's books have since been supplemented with the insertion of a caution: "The books of Father Anthony de Mello were written in a multi-religious context to help the followers of other religions, agnostics and atheists in their spiritual search, and they were not intended by the author as manuals of instruction of the Catholic faithful in Christian doctrine or dogma." [3] --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote: > > ED: > Apologies, I gave you the response before in a different post. Posting > below link from the wiki. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_de_Mello > > Mayka
