Drawing on his extraordinary experience as an interreligious monk and mystic, Brother Wayne Teasdale reveals in The Mystic Heart what he calls interspirituality, a genuine and comprehensive spirituality that draws on the mystical core of world's great religious traditions. After years within the Catholic lay monastic community, Teasdale found himself drawn to the interreligious path of visionary Father Bede Griffiths, who initiated him in the way of Sannyasa, the life of renunciation and dedication to the quest for God.
As a Sannyasi, Teasdale combines his profound Christian faith with an intimate understanding of other religions' ancient traditions. From this spiritual vantage, he shows in The Mystic Heart that what so often forms the basis for conflict can really be a meeting place of understanding and commonality. For Teasdale, comparing religious traditions is more than a matter of developing tolerance. In their meeting, a greater truth can be realized. Here he shows the power of a universal spirituality and its nine practical elements: moral capacity, solidarity with all life, deep nonviolence, mature self-knowledge, humility, selfless service, simplicity of life, daily practice, and serving as a prophetic witness in the causes of justice, peace, and protecting creation.
Through scholarship and personal practice, Teasdale demonstratesthat the final goal of authentic spirituality is realizing our true nature as mystics.
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