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Book Synopsis Inside the Grass Hut by : Ben Connelly
Download or read book Inside the Grass Hut written by Ben Connelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the mind and practice of Zen: apply the insights of one of Zen's classic poems to your life--here and now. Destined to become a trusted, dog-eared companion. Shitou Xiqian’s “Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage” is a remarkably accessible work of profound depth; in thirty-two lines Shitou expresses the breadth of the entire Buddhist tradition with simple, vivid imagery. Ben Connelly’s Inside the Grass Hut unpacks the timeless poem and applies it to contemporary life. His book delivers a wealth of information on the context and content of this eighth-century work, as well as directly evokes the poem’s themes of simple living, calm, and a deep sense of connection to all things. Each pithy chapter focuses on a single line of the poem, letting the reader immerse himself thoroughly in each line and then come up for air before moving on to the next. Line by line, Connelly shows how the poem draws on and expresses elements from the thousand years of Buddhist thought that preceded it, expands on the poem’s depiction of a life of simple practice in nature, and tells stories of the way these teachings manifest in modern life. Connelly, like Shitou before him, proves himself adept at taking profound and complex themes from Zen and laying them out in a practical and understandable way. Eminently readable, thoroughly illuminating, Inside the Grass Hut shows the reader a path of wholehearted engagement—with the poem, and with the world. Destined to become a trusted, dog-eared companion.
Book Synopsis Cultivating the Empty Field by : Taigen Dan Leighton
Download or read book Cultivating the Empty Field written by Taigen Dan Leighton and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record. First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi is one of the most influential poets in all of Zen literature. This translation of Hongzhi's poetry, the only such volume available in English, treats readers to his profound wisdom and beautiful literary gift. In addition to dozens of Hongshi's religious poems, translator Daniel Leighton offers an extended introduction, placing the master's work in its historical context , as well as lineage charts and other information about the Chinese influence on Japanese Soto Zen. Both spiritual literature and meditation instruction, Cultivating the Empty Field is sure to inspire and delight.
Download or read book Dew on the Grass written by Makoto Ueda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sketches the life and poetry of Kobayishi Issa, a major Japanese haiku poet, and tries to identify the sources of his bold individualism and all-embracing humanism in terms of his long and checkered carrier.
Book Synopsis Mindfulness and Intimacy by : Ben Connelly
Download or read book Mindfulness and Intimacy written by Ben Connelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go beyond mere mindfulness—and deepen your connection to your self, the people in your life, and the world around you. Mindfulness is an ancient and powerful practice of awareness and nonjudgmental discernment that can help us ground ourselves in the present moment, with the world and our lives just as they are. But there’s a risk: by focusing our attention on something (or someone), we might always see it as something other, as separate from ourselves. To close up this distance, mindfulness has traditionally been paired with a focus on intimacy, community, and interdependence. In this book, Ben Connelly shows us how to bring these two practices together—bringing warm hearts to our clear seeing. Helpful meditations and exercises show how mindfulness and intimacy can together enrich our empathetic engagement with ourselves and the word around us—with our values, with the environment, and with the people in our lives, in all their distinct manifestations of race and religion, sexuality and gender, culture and class—and lead to a truly engaged, compassionate, and joy-filled life.
Book Synopsis Zen's Chinese Heritage by : Andrew Ferguson
Download or read book Zen's Chinese Heritage written by Andrew Ferguson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An indispensable reference. Ferguson has given us an impeccable and very readable translation."---John Daido Loori --
Download or read book Overland Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary, prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney; rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith by :
Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary, prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney; rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis South Seas Encounters by : Richard Fulton
Download or read book South Seas Encounters written by Richard Fulton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific, but the effect of those cultures on the Western cultural perceptions of themselves and the wider world, including understanding encounters and exchanges in ways which do not underemphasize the agency and consequences for all participating parties. The essays also provide insights into the causes, unfolding, and consequences for both sides of a series of significant ethnographic, political, cultural, scientific, educational, and social encounters. This volume makes a significant contribution to increasing scholarly interest in Oceania’s place in British and American nineteenth-century cultural experiences. South Seas Encounters investigates these significant interactions and how they changed the ways that Oceanic, British, and American cultures reflected on themselves and their place in the wider world.
Book Synopsis From Milwaukee to Mayapur by : Steven J. Rosen
Download or read book From Milwaukee to Mayapur written by Steven J. Rosen and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extraordinary journey of Gordon "Jay" Erdman, a brilliant young American student who became Jayapataka Swami, a global spiritual leader. Beautifully written by Steven J Rosen (Satyaraja Das), this is the untold story of a person who has circled the globe over the last 5 decades, faced numerous challenges, and a shining example on what it takes to carry forward the mission given by ones own spiritual master. Jayapataka Swami is one of the senior-most sannyasis in the Hare Krishna movement and a dear disciple of His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. From pioneering unique initiatives, uniting communities, attracting followers around the world and distributing God’s mercy to every town and village, this book will inspire you to explore your own spiritual journey and your connection with God.
Book Synopsis Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era by : Tiffany Austin
Download or read book Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era written by Tiffany Austin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic that has led to recent deaths of unarmed black men, women, and children. This volume combines scholarly and creative understandings of the elegy in order to discern how mourning feeds our political awareness in this dystopian time as writers attempt to see, hear, and say something in relation to the bodies of the dead as well as to living readers. Moreover, this book provides a model for how to productively interweave theoretical and deeply personal accounts to encourage discussions about art and activism that transgress disciplinary boundaries, as well as lines of race, gender, class, and nation.
Book Synopsis The Practical Hygiene of Native Compounds in Tropical Africa by : Arthur Pearson
Download or read book The Practical Hygiene of Native Compounds in Tropical Africa written by Arthur Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis House of Commons Parliamentary Papers by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book House of Commons Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Picturing the True Form by : Shih-shan Susan Huang
Download or read book Picturing the True Form written by Shih-shan Susan Huang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China’s primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to both earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Shih-shan Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, and paintings, as well as other charts, illustrations, and talismans preserved in the fifteenth-century Daoist Canon. True form (zhenxing), the key concept behind Daoist visuality, is not static, but entails an active journey of seeing underlying and secret phenomena.This book’s structure mirrors the two-part Daoist journey from inner to outer. Part I focuses on inner images associated with meditation and visualization practices for self-cultivation and longevity. Part II investigates the visual and material dimensions of Daoist ritual. Interwoven through these discussions is the idea that the inner and outer mirror each other and the boundary demarcating the two is fluid. Huang also reveals three central modes of Daoist symbolism—aniconic, immaterial, and ephemeral—and shows how Daoist image-making goes beyond the traditional dichotomy of text and image to incorporate writings in image design. It is these particular features that distinguish Daoist visual culture from its Buddhist counterpart."
Book Synopsis I Could Name God in Twelve Ways by : Karen Salyer McElmurray
Download or read book I Could Name God in Twelve Ways written by Karen Salyer McElmurray and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I could dream in poetry, could summon words for spiritual experience, could name God in twelve ways and in ten times and places in history. Award-winning writer Karen Salyer McElmurray details her life's journey across continents and decades in a poetic collection that is equal parts essay-as-memoir, memoir-as-Künstlerroman, and travelogue-as-meditation. It is about the deserts of India. A hospital ward in Maryland. The blue seas of Greece. A greenhouse in Virginia. It is about the spirit houses of Thailand. The mountains of eastern Kentucky. The depths of the Grand Canyon. A creative writing classroom in Georgia. An attic in a generations-old house. It is about coming to terms with both memory and the power of writing itself. At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, McElmurray probes her personal history from the stance of different places, perspectives, and vulnerabilities as she tenderly and fiercely searches for acceptance and a place to call home.
Book Synopsis Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy by : Stephen Cairns
Download or read book Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy written by Stephen Cairns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-11-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of the often complex and unorthodox modes of dwelling that are emerging precisely from within the ruins of the idea of place.
Book Synopsis Heroes in the Troubled Times by : Xiefeng Guimei
Download or read book Heroes in the Troubled Times written by Xiefeng Guimei and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 1853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a bright moon three feet above his head, and an azure dragon embroidered on his sleeves. Riding a horse with a sword, indulging in unbridled pleasures, roaming the Jianghu with his lover.
Book Synopsis Knowledge Is Pleasure by : Lindsay Shen
Download or read book Knowledge Is Pleasure written by Lindsay Shen and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Sensuous Realist’ Florence Ayscough—poet, translator, Sinologist, Shanghailander, avid collector, pioneering photographer and early feminist champion of women’s rights in China. Ayscough’s modernist translations of the classical poets still command respect, her ethnographic studies of the lives of Chinese women still engender feminist critiques over three quarters of a century later and her collections of Chinese ceramics and objets now form an important part of several American museum’s Asian art collections. Raised in Shanghai in an archetypal Shanghailander family in the late nineteenth century, Ayscough was to become anything but a typical foreigner in China. Encouraged by the New England poet Amy Lowell, she was to become a much sought after translator in the early years of the new century, not least for her radical interpretations of the Tang-dynasty poet Tu Fu. She later moved on to record China and particularly Chinese women using the new technology of photography, turn the Royal Asiatic Society’s Shanghai library into the best on the China Coast and build several impressive collections featuring textiles, Ming and Qing ceramics. By the time of her death Florence Ayscough has left a legacy of collection and scholarship unrivalled by any other foreign woman in China before or since. In this biography, Lindsay Shen recovers Ayscough for posterity and returns her to us as a woman of amazing intellectual vibrancy and strength.
