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Category: Book Bits

Tangen Harada Roshi
Book Bits

Seeing Into the Reality of Emptiness

August 3, 2023August 3, 2023 Vanessa Able

Zen Master Tangen Harada Roshi on how understanding the truth of emptiness can reveal Original Mind.

Tagged Buddhism, change, Emptiness, flow, form, impermanence, ocean, Original Mind, true nature, Waterfall, ZenLeave a comment
Susan Bauer-Wu
Book Bits

The Problem With Business As Usual – On Interconnectedness and the Climate Crisis

June 30, 2023June 30, 2023 Vanessa Able

Inspired by the work of the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Susan Bauer-Wu's book is her personal expression of concern for the earth.

Tagged activism, climate, climate crisis, Dalai Lama, earth, ecology, interbeingLeave a comment
Orhan Pamuk
Book Bits

Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand

March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Vanessa Able

Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.

Tagged habit, hand writing, novel, Ottoman, Poetry, Practice, Turkish literature, WritingLeave a comment
Pema Chodron
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How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now

February 11, 2023February 11, 2023 Vanessa Able

Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.

Tagged bardos, Buddhism, Death, groundlessness, illusion, impermanence, liberation, loss, Tibetan buddhismLeave a comment
Barbara Brown Taylor
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The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 Vanessa Able

Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.

Tagged episcopal, journey, labyrinth, maze, no destination, path, Spiritual Practice, walking, walking meditationLeave a comment
David Hinton
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What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 Vanessa Able

David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.

Tagged Chinese philosophy, crisis, earth, earth mother, ecology, environment, Great Vanishing, Original Nature, separation, Sixth Extinction, taosim, wild mindLeave a comment
Virginia Woolf
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‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill

December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 Vanessa Able

Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.

Tagged Body, health, illness, interruption, language, Literature, Mind, perception, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Alan Watts
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Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 Vanessa Able

The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'

Tagged acceptance, Chinese Zen, oneness, Taoism, The Tao, Zen2 Comments
Book Bits

The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 Vanessa Able

Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.

Tagged Buddhism, change, contemplation, dark, Darkness, Dreams, Emptiness, liminal space, nature, night, transformationLeave a comment
Book Bits

‘An Appropriate Response’: Christian Dillo on the Nature of Buddhist Wisdom

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Vanessa Able

What is wisdom? How can what we know get in the way of true wisdom? How can we express wisdom in a chaotic and unpredictable world?

Tagged appropriate response, Buddhism, i don't know, negative space, not-knowing, presence, Wisdom, ZenLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Tangen Harada Roshi
    Seeing Into the Reality of Emptiness
    Zen Master Tangen Harada Roshi on how understanding the truth of emptiness can reveal Original Mind.
  • Susan Bauer-Wu
    The Problem With Business As Usual – On Interconnectedness and the Climate Crisis
    Inspired by the work of the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Susan Bauer-Wu's book is her personal expression of concern for the earth.
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