Where does Merton or Chuang Tzu suggest that everything is ultimately evil?
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I'm happy when I see a raging blizzard on the weather channel. My wife is unhappy for the same news. It's subjective.
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So (to carry the example, nothing against your wife) why does your wife persist in being unhappy with such news?
As for Merton - I've enjoyed the book, and found it useful. I do have two concerns; Merton does not know Chinese, so his study of other translations (though, from various languages) is not supplemented with any familiarity with source documents, also, he is from a Christian monastic tradition, and despite appearing to me as wonderfully knowledgeable and understanding of Taoist and Zen tradition, I usually like to keep with scholars from the tradition of the book.