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Tag: Practice

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
Billy Collins
Poetry

Billy Collins – Shoveling Snow With Buddha

November 30, 2022December 1, 2022 Vanessa Able

Collins' outlandish and endearing image of the Buddha's wholehearted snow shoveling, with thoughts of hot chocolate and an imminent game of cards.

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, Humor, Practice, sacred, snow, winter, work1 Comment
Padraig O Tuama
Book Bits

In the Name of the Stranger – Pádraig Ó Tuama on the Language of The Troubles

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Vanessa Able

Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama reflects on the use of the word 'trouble' in Irish language, and its relationship to grief and mourning.

Tagged fasting, Islam, Practice, Ramadan, ritual1 Comment
Kazim Ali
Uncategorized

Kazim Ali – Ramadan

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Vanessa Able

Kazim Ali's 'Ramadan' touches on the mysterious dimension of spiritual practice and reflects on what is known and what can never be known.

Tagged fasting, Islam, Poetry, Practice, Ramadan, ritual1 Comment
Resmaa Menakem
Book Bits

Working With the Soul Nerve – Resmaa Menakem on Grounding Our Bodies

September 30, 2021September 30, 2021 Vanessa Able

Starting with the damage done by racism to human bodies, Resmaa Menakem presents a pragmatic approach to healing through the body.

Tagged Body, Communication, emotions, grounding, health, lizard brain, mindfulness, Practice, soul nerve, trauma, vagus nerve2 Comments
Interview

Surviving Intact – Norman Fischer on Zen, Language and Growing Old

June 15, 2021June 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

Zen teacher and poet Norman Fischer on where and how poetry and Zen practice meet and interact.

Tagged Buddhism, form, interview, language, Literature, Poetry, Practice, relationship, success, Writing, Zen1 Comment
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Book Bits

“The Total Functioning is You, The Consciousness is You”

February 8, 2021February 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj talks about identifying with the 'I Am' that is the universal consciousness and not the individual body.

Tagged Advaita Vedanta, being, Body, breath, consciousness, non-duality, PracticeLeave a comment
Jack Kornfield
Book Bits

The Path Through the Gateless Gate

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Vanessa Able

Jack Kornfield teaches that too much emphasis on 'special' experiences might take us away from the practice of opening up to what is in front of us.

Tagged Awakening, Buddha, ecstasy, effortlessness, Enlightenment, Experience, Gateless Gate, Mystical, Practice, present moment1 Comment
Susan Murphy
Book Bits

The Great, Generous Laugh

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 Vanessa Able

Susan Murphy's book, The Red Thread, addresses the guts and gore of the flesh-and-blood humans who sustain spiritual practice in the midst of desire, mortality and heartbreak.

Tagged desire, flesh, games, humanity, Humor, laughter, lightness, ordinary, Practice, seriousness, Zen1 Comment
Dane Cervine
Featured, Poetry

Dane Cervine – The World is God’s Language

April 8, 2020April 10, 2020 Vanessa Able

'Poetry is one way of reading this world,' according to poet Dane Cervine, whose new collection, The World is God’s Language, takes its title from a quote by French philosopher and mystic, Simone Weil.

Tagged Dying, father, god's language, Growing old, mother, parents, Practice, Shiva, yogaLeave a comment

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