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Having had the little break I am now looking forward to the Zen Seshin with Robert Kennedy at Ammerdon towards the end of May. My studies are taking me to the teaching document of the English Catholic bishops on interreligious dialogue which on the whole is quite positive, the writings the the theological giant of the 6th Century Maximus the Confessor and the writings of samual Beckett especially his monologue "The unnameable" These last 2 items have some deep significance for a Zen practitioner. Maximus is a profound and exhaustive teacher on the early church's theology of apophatic prayer and in a similar fashion the beckett material also shows the limitations of language to express the deepest down things of life.