The Ground We Share: Everyday Practice Buddhist and Christian

About this book

These dialogues between Robert Aitken Roshi one of the first American-born Zen masters and Brother David Steindl-Rast the Roman Catholic monk and hermit took place during a week-long retreat the two old friends undertook in 1991 in a remote part of the island of Hawaii. Their aim was to approach the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity in a fresh way one that takes as its starting point a comparison of the personal experiences of the dialoguersas a Buddhist and as a Christian respectivelyrather than abstract concepts. The result is the discovery of a surprising amount of common groundthe kind of shared experience that forms a solid foundation for further dialogue.