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In One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing My Self and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat, American teacher of Korean Zen Jane Dobisz (Zen Master Bon Yeon), recalls her first solitary meditation stint in the woods. Luckily, this is not just a recounting of a winter's worth of cabin fever. Instead, Dobisz takes us into her cabin, and into her mind, as she tries--at least temporarily--to live a Walden-like existence. All the bowing and meditating and wood-chopping that is part and parcel of her retreat is hardly first nature, but the good-humored and tenacious Dobisz is able to adapt, and to relate her hundred days with moving insight and humanity. Her Solitude in fact offers us all a chance to commune with her and to look inside and rediscover our own grace.… (meer)
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THE HUMAN ROUTE
Coming empty-handed, going empty handed, that is human. When you are born, where do you come from? When you die, where do you go? Life is like a floating cloud, which appears. Death is like a floating cloud, which disappears. The floating cloud itself orginially does not exist. Life and death, coming and going, are also like that. But there is one thing that always remains clear. It is pure and clear, Not depending on life and death.
Then what is the one pure and clear thing?
--Traditional Chinese Poem
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For my teacher, Zen Master Seung Shn, and my children, Olivia and Sean
Eerste woorden
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All the great Zen teachings say that the wisdom of the universe is right in front of us. (Introduction)
The tiny cabin is in a small clearing in the middle of the woods.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
In One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing My Self and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat, American teacher of Korean Zen Jane Dobisz (Zen Master Bon Yeon), recalls her first solitary meditation stint in the woods. Luckily, this is not just a recounting of a winter's worth of cabin fever. Instead, Dobisz takes us into her cabin, and into her mind, as she tries--at least temporarily--to live a Walden-like existence. All the bowing and meditating and wood-chopping that is part and parcel of her retreat is hardly first nature, but the good-humored and tenacious Dobisz is able to adapt, and to relate her hundred days with moving insight and humanity. Her Solitude in fact offers us all a chance to commune with her and to look inside and rediscover our own grace.
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