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Tag: focus

Lewis Hyde
Book Bits

Lewis Hyde on Dogen and Self-Forgetting

August 20, 2024August 20, 2024 Vanessa Able

Lewis Hyde weighs up the use of memory and asks, when is forgetting the best strategy?

Tagged concentration, Dogen, focus, forgetting, history, Meditation, memory, Practice, remembering, time, transcendence, Zen1 Comment
Taisen Deshimaru
Book Bits

“Penetrate Life” – Taisen Deshimaru on Living in the Here and Now

June 11, 2024June 11, 2024 Vanessa Able

The grandson of a retired samurai, Deshimaru took a lot of wisdom from the principles of martial arts.

Tagged bushido, concentration, energy, focus, Kodo Sawaki, martial arts, Moon, Practice, river, samurai, Taisen Deshimaru, zazen, ZenLeave a comment
Shinzen Young
Book Bits

What is Meditation? Shinzen Young on How to Deepen Our Focus

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

Shinzen Young on the most basic principle of mindfulness meditation: the cultivation of focus that can be practiced at any moment of the day, during any activity.

Tagged activity, Enlightenment, focus, Meditation, mindfulness, psychology, science, secular practice, SilenceLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Roshi Joan Halifax and The Way of Haiku
    A collection of haiku offered by Roshi Joan Halifax.
  • A Year of Kō: 3rd Sekki
    3rd Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, LAILA BRAHMBHATT, WILLIAM KILGORE
  • Gary Keenan – Big Day
    Writing from the Colombian Andes, poet Gary Keenan's poem "Big Day" is a chaotic cacophony collapsing into the soft rosy amber of stillness.
  • Roderick Wilson – Practicing Resurrection
    New York poet Roderick Wilson wipes the snow from the threadbare conclusion of wintertime, on the cusp of transition.
  • A Year of Kō: 2nd Sekki
    2nd Sekki poems by FRANCES SCOTT, IRENE APOSTOLERIS and SARAH GILL.
 

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