on christian meditation

i guess i'm writing these out more for myself. life will be super busy for me this next month before i head to turkey, so i want to be able to go back to these ideas when i get a chance later on in the year.

there was this short presentation by robert jonas that really captured my attention at the conference. he's the director of the empty bell and i find his work to be truly fascinating. he started out his time by playing this japanese flute for us and drawing us into a brief meditation. oh the sound of that shakuhachi was so lovely! there was a bit on the history of the christian-buddist dialogue and his current involvement with that. and then he also suggested the world community for christian meditation website and a book by s. mark heim called the depths of the riches for us.

on a separate note, has anyone read any of donald nicholl's stuff? at the 2nd plenary session, this guy did a comparison on nouwen, merton and nicholl, and none of us knew who donald nicholl was. haha..