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Author | : Susan Murphy |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 161902876X |
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Love, attachment, the passions, gender, carnality, birth, bodily being, mortality, belonging, suffering, hope, despair, personhood, imagination, vitality, the struggle to be fully human – how do these things dwell wholly in emptiness, how do we reconcile their vivid life with 'no–thingness'? The red (or 'vermilion') thread originally connoted the color of the silk undergarments courtesans were obliged to wear. Most spiritual traditions do their best to distance themselves as thoroughly as possible from such direct and intimate contact with the fact of impassioned human bodily being, if not to declare open war upon the flesh, and the female body that most plainly bears flesh into the world. Spirituality has trouble dealing with the fact that we arrive here covered in blood. But the red thread can never be cut. Why not? Why would no perfectly accomplished saint ever even dream of cutting it? Red Thread Zen will set out to explore every corner of the magnificent koan of being 'still attached to the red thread, or 'line of tears'. This is an argument against the bloodless and socially disengaged form of 'Buddhism' that is generally being gestated in the West, one that shades too readily into the blandest of bland self–help.
Author | : Jon Etta Hastings Carter Covell |
Publisher | : Hollym International |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780930878191 |
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Author | : Bernard Faure |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 1998-10-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1400822602 |
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Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Xvkyamuni, to the premodern age. The author's anthropological approach uncovers the inherent discrepancies between the normative teachings of Buddhism and what its followers practice. Framing his discussion on some of the most prominent Western thinkers of sexuality--Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault--Faure draws from different reservoirs of writings, such as the orthodox and heterodox "doctrines" of Buddhism, and its monastic codes. Virtually untapped mythological as well as legal sources are also used. The dialectics inherent in Mahvyvna Buddhism, in particular in the Tantric and Chan/Zen traditions, seemed to allow for greater laxity and even encouraged breaking of taboos. Faure also offers a history of Buddhist monastic life, which has been buffeted by anticlerical attitudes, and by attempts to regulate sexual behavior from both within and beyond the monastery. In two chapters devoted to Buddhist homosexuality, he examines the way in which this sexual behavior was simultaneously condemned and idealized in medieval Japan. This book will appeal especially to those interested in the cultural history of Buddhism and in premodern Japanese culture. But the story of how one of the world's oldest religions has faced one of life's greatest problems makes fascinating reading for all.
Author | : David Guy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : |
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Is sex an enemy of spiritual practice, or a powerful and creative vehicle of enlightenment? "The Red Thread of Passion" describes one man's search to understand the connection between the sexual and the spiritual.
Author | : John Tarrant |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008-11-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780834823495 |
Download Bring Me the Rhinoceros Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells more than a dozen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient wisdom. Koans show that you don’t have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and generally subverting unhappiness. John Tarrant brings the heart of the koan tradition out into the open, reminding us that the old wisdom remains as vital as ever, a deep resource available to anyone in any place or time.
Author | : Susan Murphy |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2006-11-13 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 086171279X |
Download Upside-Down Zen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Upside-Down Zen" invites readers to explore the vivid spirit of Zen Buddhism in fresh ways. Recalling, in another vein, the warm, lyrical style of Lin Jensen's "Bad Dog!, " author Susan Murphy offers a multifaceted take on the spiritual, grounded in the everyday. She uses her skills as storyteller, filmmaker, and poet to uncover the connections between Zen and Western cinema, as well as between Zen and traditions as diverse as Australian aboriginal beliefs and Jewish folktales. In the process, she finds spirituality where it has always belonged -- wherever life is happening. Murphy helps readers make sense of Zen koans, the often oversimplified and misunderstood teaching stories of the tradition, and highlights their wisdom for any reader on the spiritual path. A strong new voice in Western Buddhism, Murphy speaks for the many "unrecorded" women of Zen while bringing a lively, literate approach to a sometimes daunting genre.
Author | : Kazuaki Tanahashi |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0062510460 |
Download Essential Zen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The best collection of Zen wisdom and wit since Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, this lively introduction to Zen Buddhism has it all. Koans, sayings, poems, and stories by Eastern and American Zen teachers and students capture the delightful, challenging, mystifying, mind-stopping, outrageous, and scandalous heart of Zen. 6 illustrations.
Author | : Jeff Bridges |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-01-08 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1101600756 |
Download The Dude and the Zen Master Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The perfect gift for fans of The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges's "The Dude", and anyone who could use more Zen in their lives. Zen Master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridges’s iconic role in The Big Lebowski to a Lamed-Vavnik: one of the men in Jewish mysticism who are “simple and unassuming,” and “so good that on account of them God lets the world go on.” Jeff puts it another way. “The wonderful thing about the Dude is that he’d always rather hug it out than slug it out.” For more than a decade, Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher, renowned Roshi Bernie Glassman, have been close friends. Inspiring and often hilarious, The Dude and the Zen Master captures their freewheeling dialogue and remarkable humanism in a book that reminds us of the importance of doing good in a difficult world.
Author | : Ikkyu |
Publisher | : White Pine Press (NY) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781935210788 |
Download Wild Ways Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One hundred poems by a revered Japanese Zen master.
Author | : Master Nomi |
Publisher | : No Mind |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2008-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780938058069 |
Download Where's My Zen? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A short parable of Master Nomi as he reveals the Ten Paradoxes to three travelers looking for their Zen. They mystically encounter the Hut of the Blind Donkey in Japan. This small hilltop monastery where Master Nomi lives serves as the backdrop for an unforgettable night filled with enlightening experiences and ancient Zen secrets of peak performance, a parable along the lines of Who Moved My Cheese?