Most intimate
Subtitle: a Zen approach to life's challenges
By: Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara ; foreword by Roshi Joan Halifax
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781590309742
Subjects: Meditation; Intimacy (Psychology); Spiritual life; Zen Buddhism
Description: "The joy of intimacy--with yourself, with others, and with the whole universe. The long-awaited first book from a prominent modern American Zen teacher. For Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara, intimacy is what Zen practice is all about: the realization of the essential lack of distinction between self and other that inevitably leads to wisdom and compassionate action. She approaches the practice of intimacy beginning at its most basic level--the intimacy with ourselves that is the essential first step. She then shows how to bring intimacy into our relationships with others, starting with those dearest to us and moving on to those who don't seem dear at all. She then shows how to grow in intimacy so that we include everyone around us, all of society, the whole world and all the beings it contains. Each chapter is accompanied by practices she uses with her students at the Village Zendo for manifesting intimacy in our lives"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-138)
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Roshi Joan Halifax; title: Introduction. Why Zen?; title: 1. Becoming Intimate with Yourself; title: 2. Relationship : You and Me and the Spaces Between; title: 3. Sex : Close, Closer, Closest; title: 4. Living in the Suffering World : Lotus in the Fire; title: 5. Anger : Harnessing the Energy; title: 6. Healing : The Universal Medicine; title: 7. Work : The One Who Is Not Busy; title: 8. Death and Dying : Life and Death Are of Supreme Importance; title: 9. Making Peace with Loss : Entering the Tiger's Cave; title: 10. Joy : Moment-to-Moment Possibility; title: Guide to Practice.