According to Ezra Bayda, we can use whatever life presents to strengthen our spiritual practice, including the turmoil of daily life. In Being Zen, Bayda blends storytelling, traditional Buddhist teachings, and a dose of humour, to explore such topics as finding stillness, working with difficult emotions such as anger and fear, and living open ...
When we think of archaeology, most of us think first of its many spectacular finds: the legendary city of Troy, Tutankhamun's golden tomb, the three-million-year-old footprints at Laetoli, the mile-high city at Machu Picchu, the cave paintings at Lascaux. But as marvelous as these discoveries are, the ultimate goal of archaeology, and of ...
To live more fully, to be more aware, is a goal of the basic Buddhist precepts presented by Zen teacher and Abbess Diane Rizzetto in WAKING UP TO WHAT YOU DO. Rizzetto advises us that the precepts are not do's and don'ts, but rather clear guidelines for living in positive ways. In her phrasing, they are expressed as personal decisions: "I Take Up ...
Charlotte Joko Beck is one of the most popular Zen teachers currently teaching in the West. This beautifully written book is a Zen guide to the problems of daily living, love, relationships, work, fear and suffering. Beck describes how to be in the present and living each moment to the full.
Collecting essential Insights from a lifetime of practice, beloved Zen Matriarch Beck offers her first audio program that includes a half-century of teaching. Here, this legendary Zen teacher and bestselling author talks to people from every spiritual tradition on a variety of topics. 3 CDs.
This new edition of Magid's work that explores the common ground of Zen and psychotherapy contains additional case study vignettes, and is reorganized to begin with a chapter even more readily accessible to a general readership.
A groundbreaking work, Ordinary Mind zooms in on potential opportunities and pitfalls and brings the reader to a clearer understanding of the path towards personal realization and fulfillment.
Despite the fact that Robert Penn Warren was one of the most prolific critics of the twentieth century, Charlotte H. Beck's Robert Penn Warren, Critic is the first thorough study of Warren as a literary critic in his own right. Part of the blame for this surprising omission lies with Warren himself, who tended to belittle his critical persona, ...
This little book of wisdom captures the spirit and essence of Joko Beck's teaching, and presents it in a convenient and accessible format, teaching us how to live with awareness, honesty and integrity every day.
In The Fugitive Legacy, Charlotte H. Beck demonstrates the strong influence of the Nashville Fugitives as teachers, editors, and mentors by examining the extraordinary impact on American letters of the critics, poets, and fiction writers whom they taught or sponsored. Previously, the proteges of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and ...
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