May 13
3 min read
Forgetting to Exist
The American monk and theologian Thomas Merton (1915–1968) adapted some of the work of the Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi (370–287 BCE). Here is a bit of Merton’s adaptation, with slight changes of my own:
Once three friends were discussing life. One said:
“Can people live together and know nothing of life,
work together and produce nothing?
