Dancing In The Dharma

Author : Harrison Blum
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476623503
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Dharma written by Harrison Blum and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Buddhism and dance invite the practitioner into present-moment embodiment. The rise of Western Buddhism, sacred dance and dance/movement therapy, along with the mindfulness meditation boom, has created opportunities for Buddhism to inform dance aesthetics and for Buddhist practice to be shaped by dance. This collection of new essays documents the innovative work being done at the intersection of Buddhism and dance. The contributors--scholars, choreographers and Buddhist masters--discuss movement, performance, ritual and theory, among other topics. The final section provides a variety of guided practices.

Author : Susan Blakely Klein
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176239
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing the Dharma written by Susan Blakely Klein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Susan Blakeley Klein demonstrates how medieval esoteric commentaries on the tenth-century poem-tale Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise) and the first imperial waka poetry anthology Kokin wakashū influenced the plots, characters, imagery, and rhetorical structure of seven plays (Maiguruma, Kuzu no hakama, Unrin’in, Oshio, Kakitsubata, Ominameshi, and Haku Rakuten) and two treatises (Zeami’s Rikugi and Zenchiku’s Meishukushū). In so doing, she shows that it was precisely the allegorical mode—vital to medieval Japanese culture as a whole—that enabled the complex layering of character and poetic landscape we typically associate with noh. Klein argues that understanding noh’s allegorical structure and paying attention to the localized historical context for individual plays are key to recovering their original function as political and religious allegories. Now viewed in the context of contemporaneous beliefs and practices of the medieval period, noh plays take on a greater range and depth of meaning and offer new insights to readers today into medieval Japan.

Author : Sandy Boucher
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807073193
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Dharma written by Sandy Boucher and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Denison was one of the great innovators in the early years of Buddhism in the West. In this portrait of her extraordinary life, from a youth in Nazi-dominated Germany to the center of the counterculture in the sixties and seventies, Boucher captures Denison's distinctive voice and the journey of her remarkable spirit.

Author : Phillip Moffitt
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1605298964
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing With Life written by Phillip Moffitt and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we suffer? Is there a purpose to our pain? Noting that human beings have wrestled with such questions for thousands of years, Phillip Moffitt has found answers for his own life in Buddhist philosophy and meditation. Reflecting on his own journey from Esquire magazine editor-in-chief to Buddhist meditation teacher, Moffitt provides a fresh perspective on the Buddha's ancient wisdom, showing how to move from suffering to new awareness and unanticipated joy. In this deeply spiritual book that is sure to become a Buddhist classic, Moffitt explores the twelve insights that underlie the Buddha's core teaching--the Four Noble Truths--and uses these often neglected ideas to guide readers to a more meaningful relationship to suffering. Moffitt write: "These twelve insights teach you to dance with both the joy and pain, finding peace in a balanced mind and calm spirit. As the most specific, practical life instructions I have ever encountered, they serve as an invaluable tool for anyone who seeks a life filled with meaning and well-being." Practicing these twelve insights, as Moffitt suggests, will help readers experience life's difficulties without being filled with stress and anguish, and they will enhance their moments of happiness. With engaging writing and a strong message of self-empowerment, Dancing with Life offers a prescriptive path for finding joy and peace that will appeal to meditation students and readers of "Dharma Wisdom," Moffitt's column in Yoga Journal, as well as anyone searching for a more authentic life.

Author : Adyashanti
Publisher : Sounds True
ISBN 13 : 1591798760
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emptiness Dancing written by Adyashanti and published by Sounds True. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something about you brighter than the sun and more mysterious than the night sky. Who are you when you are not thinking yourself into existence? What is ultimately behind the set of eyes reading these words? In Emptiness Dancing, Adyashanti invites you to wake up to the essence of what you are, through the natural and spontaneous opening of the mind, heart, and body that holds the secret to happiness and liberation. From the first stages of realization to its evolutionary implications, Adyashanti shares a treasure trove of insights into the challenges of the inner life, offering lucid, down-to-earth advice on topics ranging from the ego, illusion, and spiritual addiction to compassion, letting go, the eternal now, and more. Whether you read each chapter in succession or begin on any page you feel inspired to turn to, you will find in Adyashanti's wisdom an understanding and ever-ready guide to the full wonder of your infinite self-nature.

Author : Gabrielle Noble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781723316265
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance with Your Diamond Mind written by Gabrielle Noble and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You there! Muck worm! Wake up!According to Buddha, the problem of life is suffering, the cause of suffering is ignorance, the solution is waking up, and the path is the Middle Way, and all of this takes place in the subjective theater of the wild mind. Things, phenomena, do not exist the way they appear to exist. Even other people, even we ourselves, do not exist the way we appear to exist. Everything that exists, exists like a dream."To one who is awakened," the Tathagata said, "to the one who knows the nature of reality, everything is possible. But for the unawakened, only bits and pieces of the possible exist. For the unawakened, very little is possible." Here are eight potently philosophical stories that will play with your wild mind and its phantasms, and maybe disturb your sleep: Milking the ATM, Goat Face, Cold Hell, To Watch a Buddha Die, Anne, The Death of Darlene, Bodhicitta, and May the Sacred Heart of Jesus Feed Your Head.May all beings be happy!

Author : Sandy Boucher
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807073186
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Dharma written by Sandy Boucher and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the great movement of Buddhism to the West, Ruth Denison has been a pioneer. The first Buddhist teacher to lead an all-women's retreat and the first teacher to use movement and dance to train her students in mindfulness, Denison created a quintessentially female, body-centered way of teaching the Dharma. One of the first meditation instructors at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, she has taught extensively in the United States and Europe for thirty years, helping to establish meditation centers in Canada, Germany, and California. She still teaches at her own center in the Mojave Desert of California." "Capturing the unique charm of Denison's voice in vivid scenes and anecdotes, Sandy Boucher tells the gripping story of Ruth's youth in Nazi-dominated Germany and her struggle to survive the near-fatal abuses and privations that befell her after the war. After immigrating to California, Ruth met and married Henry Denison, a spiritual seeker and Vedanta devotee. Through the sixties and seventies they were active participants in the explorations of the counterculture, hosting parties attended by luminaries like Alan Watts, Aldous and Laura Huxley, and Timothy Leary, and traveling to Asia and Europe to study with the major spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. All this became a rich fertilizer for Ruth's later flowering as a Buddhist teacher in the eighties and nineties, which Boucher examines from Ruth's hesitant first formal meditation retreats, through controversy, to her ripening into a mature, wise, and yet always unpredictable teacher."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Barbara Dilley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989608121
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Very Moment written by Barbara Dilley and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir & teaching handbook of dance movement practices

Author : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Publisher : Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
ISBN 13 : 1891868284
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Practice Dharma written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and published by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded edition contains both of the very popular Lama Yeshe booklets, Becoming Your Own Therapist and Make Your Mind an Ocean.Becoming Your Own TherapistFirst published in 1998, this booklet contains three public talks by Lama Yeshe on the general topic of Buddhism. Each lecture is followed by a question and answer session. Lama and his audiences always enjoyed the give and take of these lively exchanges, and pretty much anything went. Although these talks were called lectures, Lama would have each of us use them as a mirror for our minds and look beyond the words, find ourselves, and become our own psychologist.Make Your Mind an OceanThe talks in this booklet are on the general topic of the mind. Two were lunchtime lectures at Melbourne and Latrobe Universities. One was an evening lecture given to the general public. Perhaps of greatest interest is the lecture entitled "A Buddhist Approach to Mental Illness." Lama presented this talk to a group of psychiatrists at Prince Henry's Hospital who were delighted to meet and question Lama, and this historic exchange underscores the difference between Western and Buddhist concepts of mental health.

Author : Jundo Cohen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614296464
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Zen Master's Dance written by Jundo Cohen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen Master's Dance makes some of Zen’s subtlest teaching deeply personal and freshly accessible. Eihei Dogen—the thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master of peerless depth and subtlety—heard the music of the universe that sounds as all events and places, people, things, and spaces. He experienced reality as a great dance moving through time, coming to life in the thoughts and acts of all beings. It is a most special dance, the dance that the whole of reality is dancing, with nothing left out. All beings are dancing, and reality is dancing as all beings. In The Zen Master’s Dance, Jundo Cohen takes us deep into the mind of Master Dogen—and shows us how to join in the great and intimate dance of the universe. Through fresh translations and sparkling teaching, Cohen opens up for us a new way to read one of Buddhism’s most remarkable spiritual geniuses.