Brother david steindl-rast biography
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Brother David Steindl-Rast
Noble Heart
Christians Gift Buddhists Entitle Compassion
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December 1987The Duty Of Peace
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April 1986A Eavesdrop Heart
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Brother David Steindl-Rast Papers, ca. 1928-2015
Overview
Brother David Steindl-Rast was born Franz Kuno in Vienna, Austria, in 1926. He discovered The Rule of St. Benedict as a young man, which sent him on a search for an authentic version of Benedictine practice. This search brought him through the Second World War in Vienna, where he earned a Ph.D from the University of Vienna in 1952 and to the Mount Savior Monastery in Elmira, New York, where he became a monk in 1953. Along with his friend Thomas Merton, Brother David is one of the most important figures in the modern interfaith dialogue movement, leaving Mount Savior in the mid-1960s to study Zen Buddhism with Hakuun Yajutami, Shunayu Suzuki, and Soen Nakagawa. He was the first Benedictine to learn directly from Buddhist teachers and received Vatican support for his bridge-building work in 1967. Through Merton, Brother David met Thich Nhat Hanh, who introduced him to the peace movement and grounded Brother David's spirituality in a tradition of activism. When not in seclusion, Brother David has served as a teacher of contemplative prayer, the intersection of Zen and Catholicism, and gratefulness as a spiritual practice. Through many books and articles, lectures, and residencies in spiritual centers like Tassajara and t
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Steindl-Rast, David
Background on Brother David Steindl-Rast
As a scholar, writer, and social activist, Brother David Steindl-Rast has shared messages of peace, interfaith dialogue, social justice, and environmental stewardship worldwide for more than 50 years in spoken and written word that is both thoughtful and occasionally infused with beauty, wonderment, and wit. His TEDtalk Want to Be Happy? Be Grateful has garnered over 5 million views and thousands of people a day tap into the interactive online community he co-founded, Network for Grateful Living, for information and guidance on the transformative power of gratefulness as a mindfulness practice.
Brother David was born in Vienna, Austria in 1926 as Franz Kuno. He grew up in a small, nearby village in the Alps with his mother and two younger brothers. Living in the Austrian countryside meant Br. David was surrounded by devout Catholic tradition. Religious customs and divine feasts were so abundant that, in his eyes, the elements of nature, culture and religion blended together as one.
As a young boy he attended primary school in a two-room schoolhouse. He then moved to Vienna as a young teenager to attend a progressive boarding school. As the Nazis rose to power, his mother grew concerned for his safety and decide