Beautiful work
Subtitle: a meditation on pain
By: Sharon Cameron.
Publisher: Duke Univeristy Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Cameron, Sharon.; Spiritual biography -- United States.; Pain -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.; Literary historians -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In order to understand the nature of pain, Anna undertakes a meditation practice. We tend to think of pain as self-absorbing and exclusively our own ("my pain," "I am in pain"). In distinction, Sharon Cameron's Anna comes to explore pain as common property, and as the basis for a radically reconceived selfhood. Resisting the limitations of memoir, Beautiful Work speaks from experience and simultaneously releases it from the closed shell of personal ownership. Outside of the not quite inevitable stories we tell about it, experience is less protected, less compromised, and more vivid than could be supposed." "Beautiful Work brings to bear the same interest in consciousness and intersubjectivity that characterizes Cameron's other work."--BOOK JACKET.