The Fruitful Darkness

Author : Joan Halifax
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802199638

Get Book

The Fruitful Darkness by Joan Halifax Pdf

“The wisdom of cultures that live harmoniously with nature spoken through the heart and mind of a true gnostic intermediary.” —Ram Dass In this “masterwork of an authentic spirit person,” Buddhist teacher and anthropologist Joan Halifax Roshi delves into “the fruitful darkness”—the shadow side of being, found in the root truths of Native religions, the fecundity of nature, and the stillness of meditation (Thomas Berry). In this highly personal and insightful odyssey of the heart and mind, she encounters Tibetan Buddhist meditators, Mexican shamans, and Native American elders, among others. In rapt prose, she recounts her explorations—from Japanese Zen meditation to hallucinogenic plants, from the Dogon people of Mali to the Mayan rain forest, all the while creating “an adventure of the spirit and a feast of wisdom old and new” Halifax believes that deep ecology (which attempts to fuse environmental awareness with spiritual values) works in tandem with Buddhism and shamanism to discover “the interconnectedness of all life,” and to regain life’s sacredness (Peter Matthiessen).

Author : Joan Halifax
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Earth
ISBN : UCAL:B3737711

Get Book

The Fruitful Darkness by Joan Halifax Pdf

Celebrated world traveler Joan Halifax's report from the spiritual frontier on how contemporary searchers can rediscover the interconnectedness of all life". . . . a warm and potent testament to the author's beliefs and to a life lived vigorously for the sake of the spirit".--Kirkus Reviews.

Author : Joan Halifax
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0834821745

Get Book

Being with Dying by Joan Halifax Pdf

The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds—as has been demonstrated time and again in Joan Halifax’s decades of work with the dying and their caregivers. Inspired by traditional Buddhist teachings, her work is a source of wisdom for all those who are charged with a dying person’s care, facing their own death, or wishing to explore and contemplate the transformative power of the dying process. Her teachings affirm that we can open and contact our inner strength, and that we can help others who are suffering to do the same.

Author : Joan Halifax
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781250101365

Get Book

Standing at the Edge by Joan Halifax Pdf

"Joan Halifax is a clearheaded and fearless traveler and in this book...she offers us a map of how to travel courageously and fruitfully, for our own benefit and the benefit of all beings." —From the foreword by Rebecca Solnit Standing at the Edge is an evocative examination of how we can respond to suffering, live our fullest lives, and remain open to the full spectrum of our human experience. Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and as a Buddhist teacher. Over many decades, she has also collaborated with neuroscientists, clinicians, and psychologists to understand how contemplative practice can be a vehicle for social transformation. Through her unusual background, she developed an understanding of how our greatest challenges can become the most valuable source of our wisdom—and how we can transform our experience of suffering into the power of compassion for the benefit of others. Halifax has identified five psychological territories she calls Edge States—altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, and engagement—that epitomize strength of character. Yet each of these states can also be the cause of personal and social suffering. In this way, these five psychological experiences form edges, and it is only when we stand at these edges that we become open to the full range of our human experience and discover who we really are. Recounting the experiences of caregivers, activists, humanitarians, politicians, parents, and teachers, incorporating the wisdom of Zen traditions and mindfulness practices, and rooted in Halifax's groundbreaking research on compassion, Standing at the Edge is destined to become a contemporary classic. A powerful guide on how to find the freedom we seek for others and ourselves, it is a book that will serve us all.

Author : Simin Sarikhani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995454647

Get Book

Finding Blossoms in the Darkness by Simin Sarikhani Pdf

Author : Darryl Fitzwater
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781617391071

Get Book

Exposing the Darkness by Darryl Fitzwater Pdf

Darryl Fitzwater and his family appeared to the outside world to be a good Christian family. But in truth, Darryl was not a good Christian. He was hard on his wife and children, expecting them to meet impossibly high standards and never showing love or encouragement. He believed himself to be better than the other Christians he knew and was critical and judgmental of everyone. And he had a dark secret. In 2007, on the day before Thanksgiving, his deep, dark secrets were finally exposed. Darryl's wife, RaeLynn, discovered him in the nude with their teenage daughter, Sierra. As it turned out, Darryl had been struggling with pornography for years, and his lust led him to live with a hidden heart of sin. When the truth was revealed, life as he knew it was completely destroyed. He turned himself in and spent time in jail and away from his family, and the most amazing thing happened—he learned what it means to have peace with God and to serve Him with all of his heart. Today, Darryl and his family have forgiven and reconciled, and this thought-provoking book chronicles Darryl's many discoveries as he dealt with his sin. He encourages readers to take a hard look at the hidden sin in their own lives and bring it to the light so they can begin to truly live a victorious and fruitful Christian life. All will be revealed in Exposing the Darkness: And Lighting the Way to Life in Christ.

Author : Deborah Eden Tull
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781645470779

Get Book

Luminous Darkness by Deborah Eden Tull Pdf

A resonant call to explore the darkness in life, in nature, and in consciousness—including difficult emotions like uncertainty, grief, fear, and xenophobia—through teachings, embodied meditations, and mindful inquiry that provide us with a powerful path to healing. Darkness is deeply misunderstood in today’s world; yet it offers powerful medicine, serenity, strength, healing, and regeneration. All insight, vision, creativity, and revelation arise from darkness. It is through learning to stay present and meet the dark with curiosity rather than judgment that we connect to an unwavering light within. Welcoming darkness with curiosity, rather than fear or judgment, enables us to access our innate capacity for compassion and collective healing. Dharma teacher, shamanic practitioner, and deep ecologist Deborah Eden Tull addresses the spiritual, ecological, psychological, and interpersonal ramifications of our bias towards light. Tull explores the medicine of darkness for personal and collective healing, through topics such as: Befriending the Night: The Radiant Teachings of Darkness Honoring Our Pain for Our World Seeing in the Dark: The Quiet Power of Receptivity Dreams, Possibility, and Moral Imagination Releasing Fear—Embracing Emergence Tull shows us how the labeling of darkness as “negative” becomes a collective excuse to justify avoiding everything that makes us uncomfortable: racism, spiritual bypass, environmental destruction. We can only find the radical path to wholeness by learning to embrace the interplay of both darkness and light.

Author : Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780316426473

Get Book

Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Pdf

Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place where science and spirit meet" (Robin Wall Kimmerer). In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperiled, beloved earth? Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways—from walking barefoot in the woods and reimagining our relationship with animals and trees, to examining the very language we use to describe and think about nature. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness—and wildness—that sustains humans and all of life. In the tradition of Rachel Carson, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Mary Oliver, Haupt writes with urgency and grace, reminding us that at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit we find true hope. Each chapter provides tools for bringing our unique gifts to the fore and transforming our sense of belonging within the magic and wonder of the natural world.

Author : Joan Halifax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517132362

Get Book

The Fruitful Darkness by Joan Halifax Pdf

Author : Joan Halifax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religious life
ISBN : 0809137852

Get Book

A Buddhist Life in America by Joan Halifax Pdf

"Joan Halifax is known for her work with the dying. In this book she relates how she found a life of her own through her contact with traditional cultures and through association with people like Alan Lomax, Stanislav Grof and Joseph Campbell. At first a refuge from painful mental anguish, Buddhism became, in time, a place of refreshment and self-rediscovery for her. It also gave texture to her life of service, leading to the practice of "engaged Buddhism" that is attentive to the suffering world and a healing presence within it."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Nancy Wilson Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : LCCN:66110656

Get Book

Three Ways of Asian Wisdom by Nancy Wilson Ross Pdf

Author : Robert Linssen
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781787201118

Get Book

Living Zen [Second Edition] by Robert Linssen Pdf

Living Zen is that rare achievement, both a survey of the rich history of Zen Buddhism and a guide to the practice of this most demanding and effortless art of being. The distinguished Belgian scholar Robert Linssen offers a sage corrective to the idea that the Zen way is available only to those prepared to sit life out under the Bodhi-Tree. Gently but insistently he undermines this typically Western view; inviting and enabling us, as Christmas Humphreys puts it in his preface, to take “the leap from thought to No-thought, from the ultimate duality of Illusion/Reality to a burst of laughter and a cup of tea.” “Linssen’s aim throughout this penetrating book is to encourage his readers to outgrow the cocoon of self-centered thought and feeling. The core of the book lies in its lucid analysis...and in the meaning which it gives to the true attention, focused undesirously in the immediate present, which can dissolve the endless distractions of the fear-conditioned ego.”—The Times Literary Supplement “Robert Linssen finally gives a sensible explanation of what Zen is all about.”—Saturday Review “An excellent study.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1892391953

Get Book

Darkness by Ellen Datlow Pdf

Collects twenty-five short stories from prominent writers of horror fiction published between 1984 and 2005.

Author : Joan Halifax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Shamanism
ISBN : OCLC:1319589296

Get Book

Shamanic Voices by Joan Halifax Pdf

Author : Neil T. Anderson
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0764213768

Get Book

Victory Over the Darkness by Neil T. Anderson Pdf

This bestselling book gives you practical, productive ways to discover who you are in Christ. When you realize the power of your true identity, you can shed the burdens of your past, stand against evil influences, and become the person Christ empowers you to be.