Zen and the Birds of Appetite"Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the 'nothing,' the 'no body' that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not