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Appalachian Zen

Author : Steve Kanji Ruhl
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1948626810
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Zen written by Steve Kanji Ruhl and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Prize for Memoir This luminous memoir combines the hardscrabble setting of Appalachia with the spiritual wisdom of Shunryu Suzuki’s classic Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. “Amazing and intense. A unique, entertaining, and valuable contribution to the Dharma literature, Appalachian Zen addresses a part of the Western Dharma world that hasn’t received much attention: class.” —Rev. Sumi Loundon Kim, Yale University, author of Blue Jean Buddha and Sitting Together Appalachian Zen describes a journey we all take, one that Buddhism calls “seeking our true home.” Edgy, lyrical, and lovingly rendered, this book recounts how a kid from a Pennsylvania mill-town trailer park grew up—surrounded by backwoods farms and amid grief, violence, and passionate yearning—to become something improbable: a Buddhist minister teaching Zen. Author Steve Kanji Ruhl takes readers on an adventure of discovery, roving far from the Appalachian Mountains of central Pennsylvania on a footloose Zen pilgrimage to Japan and beyond. Featuring vivid firsthand accounts of spiritual seeking and teaching in Japanese temples, as well as forays to Tokyo and Hiroshima, the alleys of Kyoto, Amish cornfields near the Susquehanna, and a monastery in the Catskills, Appalachian Zen includes robust historical sketches, rapt nature passages, and cultural references ranging from Proust to punk rock. Throughout the book, Ruhl engages Buddhist themes of awakening and the death of the self by confronting the lives and deaths, including two by suicide, of his loved ones. This provocative memoir tells how it feels to practice Zen, and to move toward a life of hard-won forgiveness, healing, and freedom.

Zen on the Trail

Author : Christopher Ives
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614294607
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Zen on the Trail written by Christopher Ives and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how hiking can be a kind of spiritual pilgrimage—calming our minds, enhancing our sense of wonder, and deepening our connection to nature. Evoking the writings of Gary Snyder, Bill Bryson, and Cheryl Strayed, Zen on the Trail explores the broad question of how to be outside in a meditative way. By directing our attention to how we hike as opposed to where we’re headed, Ives invites us to shift from ego-driven doing to spirit-filled being, and to explore the vast interconnection of ourselves and the natural world. Through this approach, we can wake up in the woods on nature’s own terms. In erudite and elegant prose, Ives takes us on a journey we will not soon forget. This book features a new prose poem by Gary Snyder.

The Arts of Contemplative Care

Author : Cheryl A Giles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614290377
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Arts of Contemplative Care written by Cheryl A Giles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful and life-affirming, this watershed volume brings together the voices of pioneers in the field of contemplative care--from hospice and hospitals to colleges, prisons, and the military. Illustrating the day-to-day words and actions of pastoral workers, each first-person essay in this collection offers a distillation of the wisdom gained over years of compassionate experience. The stories told here are sure to inspire--whether you are a professional caregiver or simply feel inclined toward guiding, healing, and comforting roles. If you are inspired to read this book, or even one touching story in it, you just might find yourself inspired to change a life.

What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

Author : Elizabeth Catte
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0998018872
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia written by Elizabeth Catte and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment politics, and eager to consume cheap campaign promises. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia is a frank assessment of America's recent fascination with the people and problems of the region. The book analyzes trends in contemporary writing on Appalachia, presents a brief history of Appalachia with an eye toward unpacking Appalachian stereotypes, and provides examples of writing, art, and policy created by Appalachians as opposed to for Appalachians. The book offers a must-needed insider's perspective on the region.

Appalachian Book of the Dead

Author : Dale Neal
Publisher : Sfk Press
ISBN 13 : 9781970137897
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Book of the Dead written by Dale Neal and published by Sfk Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ETHEREAL TALE OF HUNGRY GHOSTS A psychopathic killer disappears into the mountains and haunts the troubled residents. After the murderous Angel Jones escapes from a prison work crew, he mysteriously vanishes deep into the North Carolina woods forcing newcomers Cal and Joy McAlister to deal with his macabre presence lingering in the secluded forest. Burdened with grief, guilt, and unfilled dreams, Cal and Joy are joined by an oddball handyman and a young detoxing neighbor as they grapple with the enigma of Angel's menacing specter. Each of them brings their private ghosts to live and gives their worst fears flesh. This Southern Gothic tale blends ancient metaphysics with tantalizing thrills to make readers keenly aware of the wonders and woes of the world.

The Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen in the United States

Author : Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813754526
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen in the United States written by Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1989 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zen Traces

Author : Kenneth Kraft
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589881281
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Zen Traces written by Kenneth Kraft and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Zen takes root in the West, new forms arise. For centuries Zen masters have tested their students with “koans” and “capping phrases.” A koan is a spiritual paradox that must be solved intuitively. A capping phrase is a trenchant comment. Both are meditative practices that reveal deeper truths about the self and, ideally, lead to enlightenment. In Zen Traces, Buddhist scholar Kenneth Kraft plays off these practices in a new idiom. He selects passages from four sources: traditional Zen, present-day Zen, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain. When a koan-like story about a contemporary Zen teacher is paired with a pithy comment by Mark Twain, something fresh emerges. “In this lovely book, Ken Kraft provides a unique opening for American Buddhism and American wisdom in general. The reader will come to fresh and spacious new insights and enjoyments… Cheers for Zen in America and a deep bow to Ken Kraft!”—POLLY YOUNG-EISENDRATH, Ph.D., author of The Present Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Discovery “I highly recommend this delightful book of East-West wisdom—full of surprise, insight, wit, and piercing beauty.”—KATY BUTLER, author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death

Shepherd

Author : Richard Gilbert
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628950137
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Shepherd written by Richard Gilbert and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon moving to Appalachian Ohio with their two small children, Richard Gilbert and his wife are thrilled to learn there still are places in America that haven’t been homogenized. But their excitement over the region’s beauty and quirky character turns to culture shock as they try to put down roots far from their busy professional jobs in town. They struggle to rebuild a farmhouse, and Gilbert gets conned buying equipment and sheep—a ewe with an “outie” belly button turns out to be a neutered male, and mysterious illnesses plague the flock. Haunted by his father’s loss of his boyhood farm, Gilbert likewise struggles to earn money in agriculture. Finally an unlikely teacher shows him how to raise hardy sheep—a remarkable ewe named Freckles whose mothering ability epitomizes her species’ hidden beauty. Discovering as much about himself as he does these gentle animals, Gilbert becomes a seasoned agrarian and a respected livestock breeder. He makes peace with his romantic dream, his father, and himself. Shepherd, a story both personal and emblematic, captures the mythic pull and the practical difficulty of family scale sustainable farming.

Public Zen, Personal Zen

Author : Peter D. Hershock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144221614X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Public Zen, Personal Zen written by Peter D. Hershock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among Buddhist traditions, Zen has been remarkably successful in garnering and sustaining interest outside the Buddhist homelands of Asia, and “zen” is now part of the global cultural lexicon. This deeply informed book explores the history of this enduring Japanese tradition—from its beginnings as a form of Buddhist thought and practice imported from China to its reinvention in medieval Japan as a force for religious, political, and cultural change to its role in Japan’s embrace of modernity. Going deeper, it also explores Zen through the experiences and teachings of key individuals who shaped Zen as a tradition committed to the embodiment of enlightenment by all. By bringing together Zen’s institutional and personal dimensions, Peter D. Hershock offers readers a nuanced yet accessible introduction to Zen as well as distinctive insights into issues that remain relevant today, including the creative tensions between globalization and localization, the interplay of politics and religion, and the possibilities for integrating social transformation with personal liberation. Including an introduction to the basic teachings and practices of Buddhism and an account of their spread across Asia, Public Zen, Personal Zen deftly blends historical detail with the felt experiences of Zen practitioners grappling with the meaning of human suffering, personal freedom, and the integration of social and spiritual progress.

Ecopoetics of Reenchantment

Author : Bénédicte Meillon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666910430
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Ecopoetics of Reenchantment written by Bénédicte Meillon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth tackles the reenchantment process at work in a part of contemporary ecoliterature that is marked by the resurfacing of the song of the earth topos and of Gaia images. Focusing on the postmodernist braiding of various indigenous and ecofeminist ontologies, close readings of the animistic and totemic dimensions of the stories at hand lead to the theorizing of liminal realism—a mode that shares much with magical realism but that is approached through an ecopoetic lens, specifically working an interspecies kind of magic, situating readers in-between human and other-than-human worlds. This book promotes a worldview based on relationships of reciprocity and symbiosis. It restores our capacity for wonder together with our sensitive intelligence. Liminal realism adopts a stance in-between scientific, mythical, and poetic worldviews as it calls attention to the soundscapes, odorscapes, feelscapes, and landscapes of the world. This monograph offers an original transdisciplinary and cross-Atlantic take on ecopoetics as it straddles the two academic worlds and sparks a conversation between artworks, theories, and studies emerging from the English-speaking world as well as from Francophone contexts. Entangling the materiality of language back within the flesh of the world, this book and the texts under study provide insight into the fundamentally sympoietic dimension of ecopoiesis.

Dunnage Melange and Subduction of the Protacadic Ocean, Northeast Newfoundland

Author : Marshall Kay
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 081372175X
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Dunnage Melange and Subduction of the Protacadic Ocean, Northeast Newfoundland written by Marshall Kay and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Just Walking

Author : James C. Purdy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615337272
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Just Walking written by James C. Purdy and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first person account of a 2,171-mile thru-hike on the Appalachian Trail, with commentary on long distance hiking as a zen experience and practical tips for prospective hikers.

Studies in New England Geology

Author : Paul C. Lyons
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813711460
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Studies in New England Geology written by Paul C. Lyons and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contributions to the Tectonics and Geophysics of Mountain Chains

Author : Robert D. Hatcher
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813711584
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Contributions to the Tectonics and Geophysics of Mountain Chains written by Robert D. Hatcher and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1983 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zen Shorts (A Stillwater and Friends Book)

Author : Jon J Muth
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545825741
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Zen Shorts (A Stillwater and Friends Book) written by Jon J Muth and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stillwater, the beloved Zen panda, now in his own Apple TV+ original series! This Caldecott Honor Book presents wondrous Zen tales to light up your life.... When a giant panda named Stillwater moves into Michael, Addy, and Karl's neighborhood, he tells them the most amazing stories! To Addy, he tells a tale of a poor man who gives gifts to a robber. To Michael, he tells of a farmer who learns not to judge luck. And to Karl, he tells the tale of a monk who continues to carry the weight of a burden long past.With vibrant watercolors and elegant ink drawings, Jon J Muth--and Stillwater the bear--imaginatively present three classic Zen stories that abound with enlightenment and love.

Regional Trends in the Geology of the Appalachian-Caledonian-Hercynian-Mauritanide Orogen

Author : P.E. Schenk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400972393
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Regional Trends in the Geology of the Appalachian-Caledonian-Hercynian-Mauritanide Orogen written by P.E. Schenk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical Appalachian, Caledonian, Hercynian, and Mauritanide orogens are now only segments of a once-continuous Paleozoic mountain belt which has been fragmented during Mesozoic-Cenozoic formation of the North Atlantic Ocean. These segments are major parts of the countries surrounding the North Atlantic - most of which are members of NATO. The aim of this NATO conference was to evaluate these fragments in terms of their pre-Mesozoic positions, and to attempt a synthesis of their geologic evolution on an international and orogen-wide scale. Geologists who have studied these scattered remnants have been separated by both geography and discipline. Orogen-wide syntheses have beeen attempted in the past by individuals who are specialists not only in discipline but also in geography; therefore, these attempts have not been satisfactory to everyone. This conference brought together the foremost specialists in different disciplines from each country. They attempted to teach other specialists, not only in their own fields, but in other disciplines, about regional variations and particular problems. The resulting international cross-fertilization, both within and between speciaLties, enriched individual workers and helped to provide a multi-disciplinary overview of the orogen.

Geophysical Framework of the Continental United States

Author : Louis Charles Pakiser
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 081371172X
Total Pages : 843 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Geophysical Framework of the Continental United States written by Louis Charles Pakiser and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1989 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review and evaluation of our knowledge of the structure of the crust and upper mantle of the continental United States, exclusive of Alaska, as determined from geophysical observations. Covers geophysical methods of studying the crust and upper mantle; a region-by-region review of crustal and upper-mantle structure; continental overviews based on the different geophysical methods; and geologic and petrologic syntheses based largely on the geophysical results.