Jean Pierre de Caussade
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Jean Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751) was a French Catholic writer known for his work Abandonment to Divine Providence (also translated as The Sacrament of the Present Moment) and his posthumously-published letters of instruction to the Nuns of the Visitation at Nancy.
De Caussade is remembered for, among other things, his belief that the present moment is a sacrament from God and that self-abandonment to it and its needs is a holy state - a belief which, at first glance, would appear to be heretical relative to Catholic dogma.
Writers such as Alan Watts have found in De Caussade an Occidental, Christian-theological analogue to the Oriental religion of Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Zen Buddhism.
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