If you're lucky, your heart will break: field notes from a Zen life
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Main Author: Ford, James Ishmael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Somerville Wisdom Publications 2012
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Item Description:Using vignettes and anecdotes from his own life?as well as quotations drawn from sources as varied as the Bible, Yiddish aphorisms, and stand-up comedy?Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford shares the gifts won over his lifetime of full-hearted engagement with the Zen path.?I've found myself broken open," Ford says,?and found in that opening my fundamental connection to the whole world."What's more, If You're Lucky, Your Heart will Break breathes new life into the Buddhist ideas of karma and rebirth?as well as the Buddhist precepts of ethical action?and finds for
Introduction; Part I: What Is Awakening?; The Answer, Sort Of; Earthquakes; Every Day Is a Good Day; Part II: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Pay Attention; On Having a Spiritual Practice; Beginning; Shikantaza; Koan Introspection; Listening for the Sound of the Single Hand: How to Let a Koan Work On You; Some of What Zen Practice Is, a Little of What It Isn't; Spiritual Directors; What to Look for When Looking for a Zen Teacher; Only Don't Know; Part III: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk; Putting It Together; Karma, Rebirth, & Finding a Real Life; Wrestling with Natural Law
Seven SuggestionsDo Not Cut Yourself Off from This World: Love Your Mother; Do Not Kill: Reverence This Mysterious Life; Do Not Lie: Speak Truthfully; Do Not Steal: Respect the Integrity of Things; Do Not Misuse Sex: Respect Our Bodies; Do Not Forget Your Family: Seek Justice; Do Not Drink the Wine of Delusions: Seek Clarity; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author
Physical Description:198 pages
ISBN:9781614290438
1614290431

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