Red Thread Zen

Author : Susan Murphy
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781619028760

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Red Thread Zen by Susan Murphy Pdf

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,Sōbin Yamada
Publisher : Hollym International
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0930878191

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Unraveling Zen's Red Thread by Jon Etta Hastings Carter Covell,Sōbin Yamada Pdf

Author : Bernard Faure
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400822607

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The Red Thread by Bernard Faure Pdf

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,David Iosifovich Gaĭ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015047472454

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The Red Thread of Passion by David Guy,David Iosifovich Gaĭ Pdf

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
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834823497

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Bring Me the Rhinoceros by John Tarrant Pdf

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 : Norman McClelland
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781977238085

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Zen Koans, Paradoxical Awakening by Norman McClelland Pdf

What comes to mind when you hear the word “koan”? You probably know koans as paradoxes, and you may believe that they are therefore illogical or intellectually inscrutable—and therefore not useful to the average person. Zen Koans: Paradoxical Awakenings is the tool you need to correct your perceptions of koans and become aware of the benefits of koan practice. Embracing the paradox of the koan can give deeper meaning to life, as well as leading to the Buddhist awakening to your real, non-dual nature. With an experienced Zen teacher as your guide, you can enter more deeply into the three essentials of Zen: great faith, great doubt, and great determination.

Author : Susan Murphy
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781619023048

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Minding the Earth, Mending the World by Susan Murphy Pdf

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi founded the San Francisco Zen Center in 1962, and after fifty years we have seen a fine group of Zen masters trained in the west take up the mantle and extend the practice of Zen in ways that might have been hard to imagine in those first early years. Susan Murphy, one of Robert Aitken's students and dharma heirs, is one of the finest in this group of young Zen teachers. She is also a fine writer, and following on the teaching of her Roshi she has engaged her spiritual work in the ordinary world, dealing with the practice of daily life and with the struggles of all beings. We know that our earth is in crisis, but is the situation beyond repair? Are we on a path of planetary disaster where the only proper response is to prepare for our melancholic dystopian future? Is there a way out of our suspicious cynicism? In the tradition of Thomas Berry, using this spiritual opportunity to change the very nature of our crisis, Susan Murphy offers a profound message, subtly presented with clarity and assurance, showing that engaged Buddhism provides a possible path to the necessary repair and healing.

Author : Subhana Barzaghi
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1500539546

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Red Thread Zen by Subhana Barzaghi Pdf

Some of us have arrived at this particular point in our spiritual journey with a little extra baggage about passion, love, and sex, and I have noticed that many people on the spiritual path have a tendency in the mind to create a polarisation or a separation between the spiritual path and the sexual life. So what is the Tao of love, passion, and sex? This very body is the lotus of the true law, linking human beings to birth and death by the red thread of passion. This approach was closely related to Tantric Buddhism, that used sexual union as a religious ritual.

Author : Carol Antoinette Peacock
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101591857

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Red Thread Sisters by Carol Antoinette Peacock Pdf

When a girl is adopted from a Chinese orphanage, everything she knew about family, best friends, and sisterhood must change. Wen has spent the first eleven years of her life at an orphanage in rural China, and the only person she would call family is her best friend, Shu Ling. When Wen is adopted by an American couple, she struggles to adjust to every part of her new life: having access to all the food and clothes she could want, going to school, being someone's daughter. But the hardest part of all is knowing that Shu Ling remains back at the orphanage, alone. Wen knows that her best friend deserves a family and a future, too. But finding a home for Shu Ling isn't easy, and time is running out . . .

Author : Jeff Bridges,Bernie Glassman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101600757

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The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges,Bernie Glassman Pdf

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 : Neon Yang
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765395382

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The Red Threads of Fortune by Neon Yang Pdf

“Joyously wild stuff. Highly recommended.” —The New York Times The Red Threads of Fortune is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to Neon Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Black Tides of Heaven, available simultaneously. Fallen prophet, master of the elements, and daughter of the supreme Protector, Sanao Mokoya has abandoned the life that once bound her. Once her visions shaped the lives of citizens across the land, but no matter what tragedy Mokoya foresaw, she could never reshape the future. Broken by the loss of her young daughter, she now hunts deadly, sky-obscuring naga in the harsh outer reaches of the kingdom with packs of dinosaurs at her side, far from everything she used to love. On the trail of a massive naga that threatens the rebellious mining city of Bataanar, Mokoya meets the mysterious and alluring Rider. But all is not as it seems: the beast they both hunt harbors a secret that could ignite war throughout the Protectorate. As she is drawn into a conspiracy of magic and betrayal, Mokoya must come to terms with her extraordinary and dangerous gifts, or risk losing the little she has left to hold dear. The Tensorate Series Book 1: The Black Tides of Heaven Book 2: The Red Threads of Fortune Book 3: The Descent of Monsters Book 4: The Ascent to Godhood At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Perle Besserman,Manfred B. Steger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780861716913

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Zen Radicals, Rebels, and Reformers by Perle Besserman,Manfred B. Steger Pdf

"The Guys in this Book are my Heroes, and Perle Besserman and Manfred Steger have done a tremendous job of bringing their stories to life. It's important to put a spotlight on the radical, rebellious characters who have shaped the Zen Buddhist lineage. I really like this book."---Brad Warner, Author of Hardcore Zen --

Author : Susan Murphy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780861712793

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Upside-Down Zen by Susan Murphy Pdf

"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 : Ikkyu
Publisher : White Pine Press (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1935210785

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Wild Ways by Ikkyu Pdf

One hundred poems by a revered Japanese Zen master.

Author : Master Nomi
Publisher : No Mind
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0938058061

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Where's My Zen? by Master Nomi Pdf

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?