Contents: Forward: The heart of dialogue / Thomas G. Hand, S.J.--Preface: The dialogue in its monastic setting / David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B.--Introduction: Bruno Barnhart, O.S.B. Cam. and Joseph Wong, O.S.B. Cam.--Regaining the lost kingdom: purity and meditation in the Hindu spiritual tradition / Pravrajika Vrajaprana--Heart Yoga: a comparison of two texts, Pratyabhijna-hridayam (Kashmir, 11th cent.)and Kaivalya-darsanam (West Bengal, 9th cent.) / Thomas Matus, O.S.B. Cam.--The space in the lotus of the heart: the anthropological spirit in the writings of Bede Griffiths / Cyprian Consiglio, O.S.B. Cam.--Glistening frost and cooking sand: unalterable aspects of purity in Chan Buddhist meditation / Martin J. Verhoeven--Cleansing the heart: Buddhist bowing as contemplation / Rev. Heng Sure--The historical Hui-neng, the sixth patriarch of Chan Buddhism in dialogue with the unknown author of the Cloud of unknowing / Nicholas Koss, O.S.B.--Zen and the impurity of purity / Francis H. Cook--Zazen: a path from judgement to love / William Skudlarek, O.S.B.--Sacred fools and monastic rules: Zen rule-bending and the training for pure hearts / Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton--Doutb and breakthrough in the desert fathers / Kevin Hunt, O.C.S.O.--The Taoist tradition of meditation: history, transformation and comparison / Liu Xiaogan--Chaos: a thematic contenuity between early Taoism and the way of the golden elixir / Paul Crowe--Through detachment to vision: Chuang-tzu and Meister Eckhart / Joseph Wong, O.S.B. Cam.--Benedictine humility and Confucian sincerity / Donald Corcoran, O.S.B. Cam.--Purity of heart: discovering what you really want / Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.--On the recreating of desire and purity of heart: an explination / Bede Healey, O.S.B. Cam.--Purity of heart: a dialogue / Mary Margaret Funk, O.S.B.--Christian self-understanding in the light of the East: new birth and unitive conciousness / Bruno Barnhart, O.S.B. Cam.