Introducing James Finley
Turning to the Mystics with James Finley
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The Seven Story Mountain
i was interviewed by the novice master, father john of the cross and a psychiatrist who interview for mental health. The abbot said fidelity to this one zen master was once to ask, you know, what is the greatest suffering? And the zen master said, to wear monks robes without resolving the great matter. So they shaved my hair off and put this pocke before i wore a monastic habit. I'll never forget i went thereand at least when i was there, the guests were up in the balcony, and you looked down into the cloistered choir par chanting the psalms. You don't even have to know latin to be moved by it. It
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