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Naked in the Zendo

Stories of Uptight Zen, Wild-Ass Zen, and Enlightenment Wherever You Are

By: Grace Schireson

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Naked in the Zendo

Stories of Uptight Zen, Wild-Ass Zen, and Enlightenment Wherever You Are

By: Grace Schireson

A collection of charming and funny stories on how to turn the awareness we find on the meditation cushion into wisdom for every day. We need to remove our ego's clothing to truly see ourselves and the world as they are. Grace Schireson's stories about her Zen journey--from child to grandmother--share deep insight about how we can find awareness, feel it in our bodies, and experience it wherever we are. Grace's path is at times ordinary--with stories of youthful naiveite ("Will Zen Get You High?"), parenting ("You Exist; Therefore, I Am Embarrassed"), and pets ("The Honorable Roshi Bully Cat")--and groundbreaking--with stories of her studies with Suzuki Roshi ("What's Love Got to Do with It?"), Keido Fukushima Roshi ("Don't Bow"), and more. Each story, whether humorous or poignant, highlights the power of awareness to transform our lives and the remarkable work of this pioneering woman in American Zen.

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Shambhala Publications

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1611806569

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9781611806564

Zen Women

Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters

By: Grace Schireson

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Zen Women

Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters

By: Grace Schireson

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.

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Simon and Schuster

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0861719565

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9780861719563

Zen Women

Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters

By: Grace Schireson

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Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters

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Naked in the Zendo

Stories of Uptight Zen, Wild-Ass Zen, and Enlightenment Wherever You Are

By: Grace Schireson

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The Transnational Beat Generation

By: N. Grace

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The Transnational Beat Generation

By: N. Grace

This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent.

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Springer

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1137014490

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9781137014498

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