the spirituality of these countries was not available to him. For this reason I consider him to be a typically Western thinker. By this I mean that he approached the Vedic and Buddhist spiritual and philosophical traditions with the categories he learned from Saint Thomas and with the sensitivity of John of the Cross, not knowing Gregory of Nissa’s reflections on harmony, Simeon the New Theologian’s poetics who were even close to that of tantrism, and never stopped to fathom the link between hesychasm and yoga. This is certainly not an accusation, but rather a simple statement that also
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