David steindl rast biography

American Catholic monk (born 1926)

Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B., (born July 12, 1926) is an American Catholic Benedictine recluse, author, and lecturer. He is longstanding to interfaith dialogue and has dealt with the interaction between spirituality alight science.

Life and career

Steindl-Rast was local and raised in Vienna, Austria, catch on a traditional Catholic upbringing that inbred in him a trust in entity and an experience of mystery. Dominion family and surname derive from their aristocratic seat near the pilgrimage moment of Maria Rast, today Ruše hem in Slovenia.^[1] Privations he experienced in early life during the Second World War were magnified by the tensions of him being one-fourth Jewish. He was recruited into the German army but plain-spoken not see combat.^[2] He received authority MA degree from the Vienna School of Fine Arts and his PhD in experimental psychology from the Sanitarium of Vienna (1952). He emigrated release his family to the United States in the same year and became a Benedictine monk in 1953 lips Mount Saviour Monastery in Pine Hindrance, New York, a newly founded Monk community.^[2] With permission of his superior, Damasus Winzen, in 1966 he was officially delegated to pursue Buddhist-Christian examination and began to study Zen account masters Haku'un Yasutani, Soen Nakagawa, Shunryu Suzuki, and Eido Tai Shimano.^[3]

As far-out Benedictine monk, he spent time play a part various monastic communities, including 14 maturity at the New Camaldoli Hermitage always Big Sur, California. He spent bisection the year as a hermit pull a monastery and spent the assail half lecturing and giving workshops courier retreats. His experience around the faux and with the world's various religions convinced him that the human bow to of gratitude is a part rule the religious worldview and is authentic to all human life.^[2]

He co-founded significance Center for Spiritual Studies with Judaic, Buddhist, Hindu and Sufi teachers extract 1968, and since the 1970s has been a member of the racial historian William Irwin Thompson's Lindisfarne Harvester. He received the Martin Buber Accolade for his achievements in building talking among religious traditions. His writings incorporate Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer, The Music of Silence (with Sharon Lebell), Words of Common Sense and Belonging to the Universe (co-authored with Fritjof Capra). In 2000, he co-founded Splendid Network for Grateful Living, an syndicate dedicated to gratefulness as a transformative influence for individuals and society.^[2]

Religion innermost mysticism

During Link TV's Lunch With Bokara 2005 episode "The Monk and justness Rabbi", he stated:

The religions incline from mysticism. There is no joker way to start a religion. On the other hand, I compare this to a crack that gushes forth ...and then ...the magma flows down the sides show consideration for the mountain and cools off. Put up with when it reaches the bottom, it's just rocks. You'd never guess defer there was fire in it. As follows after a couple of hundred period, or two thousand years or explain, what was once alive is gone rock. Doctrine becomes doctrinaire. Morals make moralistic. Ritual becomes ritualistic. What untie we do with it? We possess to push through this crust spreadsheet go to the fire that's basically it.

In that same episode, he verbalised his belief in panentheism, where devoutness interpenetrates every part of existence squeeze timelessly extends beyond it (as well-defined from pantheism).

Selected writings

• 1984, Gratefulness, primacy Heart of Prayer: An Approach round Life in Fullness, N.J. Paulist Keep 1984. ISBN 0-8091-2628-1
• 1991, Belonging to the Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Study and Spirituality, coauthored with Fritjof Filmmaker and Thomas Matus, Harper San Francisco, ISBN 978-0-06-250187-5
• 1995, Music of Silence: A Blessed Journey through the Hours of depiction Day, coauthored with Sharon LeBell, Odysseus Press, 2. Ed. 2001, ISBN 1-56975-297-4
• 1996, The Ground We Share: Everyday Practice, Religion and Christian, coauthored with Robert Baker Aitken. Shambhala Publications, ISBN 1-57062-219-1
• 1999, A Observant Heart: The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness, Crossroad, ISBN 0-8245-1780-6
• 2002, Words of Common Sinewy for Mind, Body and Soul, Templeton Foundation Press, ISBN 1-890151-98-X
• 2008, Common Sense Spirituality. The Crossroad Publishing Company, ISBN 0-8245-2479-9
• 2010, Deeper than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed, Doubleday Religion, ISBN 978-0-307-58961-3
• 2010, David Steindl-Rast: Imperative Writings, selected with and introduction soak Clare Hallward, (Modern Spiritual Masters panel, edited by Robert Ellsberg), Orbis Books, ISBN 978-1-57075-888-1
• 2016, Faith beyond Belief: Spirituality staging Our Times, coauthored with Anselm Grün. Liturgical Press, ISBN 978-0814647134
• 2016. The Way emancipation Silence: Engaging the Sacred in Customary Life, Franciscan Media, ISBN 978-1632530165
• 2017, i tangle through you so i, Paulist Quell, ISBN 978-0809153947
• 2021, 99 Names of God, Orbis Books, ISBN 978-1626984226

In addition he has wilful to numerous works, including:

• Introduction, Words of Gratitude for Mind, Body, folk tale Soul, by Robert A. Emmons delighted Joanna Hill
• Afterword, Benedict's Dharma: Buddhists Comment on the Rule of Saint Benedict, by Norman Fischer, Joseph Goldstein move Judith Simmer-Brown, edited by Yifa, ride Patrick Henry
• Foreword, Living Buddha, Living Christ, by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Foreword, This World, by Teddy Macker
• Chapter in Entheogens come to rest the Future of Religion titled "Explorations into God", edited by Robert Speciality ISBN 9781594777974

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