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Category: Book Bits

Shunryu Suzuki
Book Bits

Buddhism’s Most Basic Teaching: Everything Changes

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Shunryu Suzuki on our inability to accept the truth that we and everything around us are in a state of constant flux.

Tagged acceptance, Buddhism, change, Everything changes, impermanence, Suffering, transformation, transience, Zen, Zen Mind Beginners MindLeave a comment
Henri Nouwen
Book Bits

Healing With Our Wounds – Henri Nouwen on How to Work With Loneliness

April 5, 2021April 5, 2021 Vanessa Able

Henri Nouwen wrote that when we can be with our own loneliness, we can begin to understand the suffering that underlies all of humanity.

Tagged healing, Loneliness, ministry, pain, pastoral care, woundsLeave a comment
Ranier Maria Rilke by Gerhard Richter
Book Bits

Rilke and the Labors of Love

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

Rilke stresses the importance of work in relationship and cautions against the youthful fancy that romance is the domain of play and pleasure.

Tagged Advice, coupling, Experience, love, maturity, Relationships, workLeave a comment
Eihei Dogen
Book Bits, Dogen, The Masters

As Long as Your Dewlike Human Life Lasts

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 Vanessa Able

Dogen answers the questions of his students regarding monastic renunciation - how can one have faith that one's basic needs will be met?

Tagged Advice, Dogen, Gift, Monasticism, provision, renunciation, Shobogenzo, teaching, Zuimonki1 Comment
Kathleen Dean Moore
Book Bits

Living Like Birds, Loving Like Birds

March 26, 2021March 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

With her book, Earth's Wild Music, Kathleen Dean Moore asks, what can we do in the midst of so much extinction? What is our moral imperative?

Tagged activism, birds, community, Extinction, love, music, nature, Resilience, sound1 Comment
Janwillem van de Wetering
Book Bits

You Have to Have a Cup

March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

The Empty Mirror is Janwillem van de Wettering's memoir of his time at a Japanese Zen monastery where he stayed for over a year in the late 1950s.

Tagged Buddhist monk, discipline, Japan, monastery, student, Teacher, ZenLeave a comment
Charlie Mackesy
Book Bits

A Boy and His Woodland Friends: Charles Mackesy’s Heartwarming Tale of Discovery

March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Charlie Mackesy's short graphic novel follows a young boy who connects with a wise horse and a mole, and a more reticent fox.

Tagged childhood, graphic novel, Simplicity1 Comment
Yagyu Munenori
Book Bits, The Masters

The Moon in the Water, the Body in the Mirror

March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

Samurai Yagyu Munenori uses the popular Zen image of the moon reflected in the water to explain its application in martial arts training.

Tagged art of war, buddhsim, Immediacy, Japan, Mind, Moon, quiescence, reflection, samurai, Water, ZenLeave a comment
Simone de Beauvoir
Book Bits

The Free Woman is Just Being Born – Simone de Beauvoir and Freedom in Creativity

March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 Vanessa Able

Simone de Beauvoir on women in art and why there was never a female Van Gogh.

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Barbara McHugh
Book Bits

The Struggle of a Buddha’s Wife

March 8, 2021March 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

The Buddha's abandonment of his wife is a thorny subject in a tradition that has generally promoted equality.

Tagged Buddha's wife, Buddhism, historical fiction, history, homeleaving, renunciation, women's day, Yasodhara1 Comment

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