Today on NNC a remarkable man who has influenced and continues to the lives of many people.
Fr Anthony de Mello, SJ (1931 - 1987) was a Jesuit and writer Indian .
Biography
Father de Mello was born in Santa Cruz, a suburb of Mumbai in India. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1947 at the age of sixteen not yet completed. It was later transferred, and then traveled to several countries to study and later to teach, mainly in Spain and the United States, where he became a psychotherapist. He soon became famous for his books on spirituality, religiosity that mixed Christian and Eastern Europe with his studies of psychology.
Back in India, began to organize a variety of spiritual retreats, and was generally considered a public speaker quality. De Mello established a prayer center in India, called 'Sadhana'.
died suddenly in 1987. His work are still in print and unpublished writings were published after his death.
The spiritual message of Father de Mello
from his books, which are characterized by an intelligent and often humorous way to tap the great content of the Christian religion and of Eastern traditions, reflected in the spiritual message of Father de Mello; Here are some of his aphorisms:
" Life is a mystery, which means that the rational mind is unable to understand it. For this you have to wake up and suddenly you realize that reality is not problematic: the problem is you. "
(Message for an eagle is believed that a chicken, taken from The world has nothing wrong)
" Our suffering has a cause. This is the great insight of the Buddha. [...] So what is the cause of suffering? The mental activity, the development of thoughts. Sometimes the mind rests, then all is well. Other times, however, begins to operate and produces what is called Buddha processing thoughts . "
(flight instruction Walking on Water, p. 93.)
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Luca
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