Author: Grace Schireson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 086171475X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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This landmark presentation at last makes heard the centuries of Zen's female voices. Through exploring the teachings and history of Zen's female ancestors, from the time of the Buddha to ancient and modern female masters in China, Korea, and Japan, Grace Schireson offers us a view of a more balanced Dharma practice, one that is especially applicable to our complex lives, embedded as they are in webs of family relations and responsibilities, and the challenges of love and work. Part I of this book describes female practitioners as they are portrayed in the classic literature of "Patriarchs' Zen"--often as "tea-ladies," bit players in the drama of male students' enlightenments; as "iron maidens," tough-as-nails women always jousting with their male counterparts; or women who themselves become "macho masters," teaching the same Patriarchs' Zen as the men do. Part II of this book presents a different view--a view of how women Zen masters entered Zen practice and how they embodied and taught Zen uniquely as women. This section examines many urgent and illuminating questions about our Zen grandmothers: How did it affect them to be taught by men? What did they feel as they trying to fit into this male practice environment, and how did their Zen training help them with their feelings? How did their lives and relationships differ from that of their male teachers? How did they express the Dharma in their own way for other female students? How was their teaching consistently different from that of male ancestors? And then part III explores how women's practice provides flexible and pragmatic solutions to issues arising in contemporary Western Zen centers.
Author: Jane McKenty
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539855910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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+ FREE BOOK Buy this book and get BOOK for FREE "ZEN Girls: Drawing Amazing ZEN Doodle Girls!" is an easy to understand step by step drawing manual. Here we will guide the reader via five different lessons, providing indications, advices, suggestions, and various techniques. All the practice provided by this book is quite simple and easy to understand; accompanying each set of instructions with pictures illustrating the intended final result. It is important to let the reader know that is not necessary by any means to be good at drawing for enjoy or exploiting this guidebook to its full potential. The innate skill for sketching does not make a difference here, it is not mandatory being good at something, to be able to learn it, if the approach of teaching it is successful, everybody can do it; it is the firm idea of us to make anyone a master this technique. We will be explaining to you with clear guiding instructions, making this journey a simple and easy to follow one. The art of ZEN will probably prove to be either an entertaining way of passing time or a good recipe for unwinding; whichever it ends up being, this book will ensure that the reader at least learn the how to do of this kind of art. "ZEN Girls: Drawing Amazing ZEN Doodle Girls!" wants to provide the reader with endless hours of fun before all; we assure that this will be a book that will turn out to be not only an useful manual for learning ZEN, but also will give a *new* way of relaxation. This is all on the hands of you, the reader, you will decide how to exploit this manual and its methods; we will be giving you the directions and the advices, but you will be the one putting the final touch. Here is a preview of what you'll learn: - Prancing young lady - The fairy - Missing miss amidst the mist - A nightly butterfly - Her hat suits her well Enjoy reading and practicing, and do not forget to receive your FREE BONUS BOOK All the instructions you will find at the end of the book.Good luck!
Author: Brad Warner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1614293163
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Zen, plain and simple, with no BS. This is not your typical Zen book. Brad Warner, a young punk who grew up to be a Zen master, spares no one. This bold new approach to the "Why?" of Zen Buddhism is as strongly grounded in the tradition of Zen as it is utterly revolutionary. Warner's voice is hilarious, and he calls on the wisdom of everyone from punk and pop culture icons to the Buddha himself to make sure his points come through loud and clear. As it prods readers to question everything, Hardcore Zen is both an approach and a departure, leaving behind the soft and lyrical for the gritty and stark perspective of a new generation. This new edition will feature an afterword from the author.
Author: Santhosh Kumar Dubey
Publisher: Age@18 book by Santhosh Dubey
ISBN: 1947697935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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A series of short stories with an aim to entertain the readers, this book is an amalgam of real-life incidents laced with the author’s fragments of imagination. The most appealing love story for youngsters, titled Age@18, seeks to give out a message to lovelorn souls that ‘fret not that your love failed, but rise to be better than the best in this world.’ Witty takes on superstitions in the country, tales of teenage and childhood and more are waiting to absorb you into their magical world.
Author: Clyde Thomas Erikson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1413465722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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This story is about a group of teenagers, six girls and one boy, who become involved with the beginnings of the fulfillment of a very old prophecy. This book follows the day to day lives of the group of girls as they travel on a passenger/cargo ship to the planet Olatha. This is a story about life, so there are boring repetitions, laughter, conflicts, arguments and sexual intimacy. The initial character, Diane Lin Sussette, was intrigued by the prophecy that she came upon, but she hadn't any idea how it would affect her personally.
Author: Katrina Gulliver
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857721356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the West. This 'modern woman' archetype was also penetrating into Eastern cultures, however, challenging the Chinese and Japanese historical norm of the woman as homemaker, servant or geisha. Through a focus on the writings of the Western women who engaged with the Far East, and the Eastern writers and personalities who reacted to this new global gender communication by forming their own separate identities, Katrina Gulliver reveals the complex redefining of the self taking place in a crucial time of political and economic upheaval. Including an analysis of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Pearl S. Buck, The Modern Woman in China and Japan is an important contribution to gender studies and will appeal to historians and scholars of China and East Asia as well as to those studying Asian and American literature.
Author: Cynthia Heimel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671477250
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Handed down from one generation to another, Sex Tips for Girls remains the hilarious, must-have handbook for any woman looking for a book on love. From Zen and the art of diaphragm insertion to how to be blindingly beautiful, from the sex-and-drugs-and-rock-and-roll diet to how to cure a broken heart, there is no better, funnier, truer guide to life, love, and the pursuit of men!
Author: Janine Anderson Sawada
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824844939
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Although East Asian religion is commonly characterized as "syncretic," the historical interaction of Buddhist, Confucian, and other traditions is often neglected by scholars of mainstream religious thought. In this thought-provoking study, Janine Sawada moves beyond conventional approaches to the history of Japanese religion by analyzing the ways in which Neo-Confucianism and Zen formed a popular synthesis in early modern Japan. She shows how Shingaku, a teaching founded by merchant Ishida Baigan, blossomed after his death into a widespread religious movement that selectively combined ideas and practices from these traditions. Drawing on new research into original Shingaku sources, Sawada challenges the view that the teaching was a facile "merchant ethic" by illuminating the importance of Shingaku mystical experience and its intimate relation to moral cultivation in the program developed by Baigan's successor, Teshima Toan. This book also suggests the need for an approach to the history of Japanese education that accounts for the informal transmission of ideas as well as institutional schooling. Shingaku contributed to the development of Japanese education by effectively disseminating moral and religious knowledge on a large scale to the less-educated sectors of Tokugawa society. Sawada interprets the popularity of the movement as part of a general trend in early modern Japan in which ordinary people sought forms of learning that could be pursued in the context of daily life.
Author: Amy Pine
Publisher: Forever
ISBN: 1538718588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Gilmore Girls meets My Big Fat Greek Wedding in this humorous, multi-generational story about a mother and daughter who discover that life happens when you least expect it. Gabi Bloom doesn't believe in signs. She believes in photographic evidence, the view through her camera lens, and the snap of the shutter. It's why she traveled to Europe—to satisfy her wanderlust and to kick off her photography career. But in Ireland, all of that changed when Gabi gazed into the impossibly blue eyes of an American bartender. She wasn’t prepared for their intense and immediate attraction, or the fact that she’d be bringing Ethan home with her . . . as her fiancé. Gabi's upcoming marriage is the cherry on top of her mother's current predicament. Stumbling toward forty, Alissa is a pastry chef who raised her daughter single-handedly while Gabi’s father traveled the globe. Now her baby girl is getting married after a whirlwind romance and Alissa—well, Alissa is pregnant. Again. And not only is her ex the father, he wants her back. For good. Until she can figure out that part of the puzzle, Alissa is hiding her big little secret even as she helps Gabi plan a happily-ever-after wedding. But somewhere between disaster and hope, life might just bloom in a way that is breathtakingly unexpected . . .
Author: Angelina Johnstone
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Moving from New York to Japan was a feat too big for Serena Knight to overcome, but with great plans for the future, she graduates from Journalism school and is on her way to begin a new chapter in her life Serena Knight has always allowed love to come to her at her own time but in a new place, with new friends and feelings she hadn’t felt before; can she hold back when she falls for a man she can't have? Tokyo Girl focuses on the independent lifestyle of Serena and her group of new found friends, as they go through different phases in life with love, friendship and work life balance. It takes you on a rollercoaster journey of anger, sorrow, achievement, friendship, love and life changing experiences that ought to enable a deep and understanding connection
