Dancing The Dharma

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 : 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 Blakeley Klein
Publisher : Harvard East Asian Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9780674247840
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing the Dharma written by Susan Blakeley Klein and published by Harvard East Asian Monographs. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 400 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. 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.

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 : Harrison Blum
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786498099
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( 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 2016-02-26 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 : 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 : Susan Blakely Klein
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170389
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allegories of Desire written by Susan Blakely Klein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. The main figure in this development was the obscure thirteenth-century poet Fujiwara Tameaki, grandson of the famous poet Fujiwara Teika and a priest in a tantric Buddhist sect. Tameaki’s commentaries and teachings transformed secular texts such as the Tales of Ise and poetry anthologies such as the Kokin waka shu into complex allegories of Buddhist enlightenment. These commentaries were transmitted to his students during elaborate initiation ceremonies. In later periods, Tameaki’s specific ideas fell out of vogue, but the habit of interpreting poetry allegorically continued. This book examines the contents of these commentaries as well as the qualities of the texts they addressed that lent themselves to an allegorical interpretation; the political, economic, and religious developments of the Kamakura period that encouraged the development of this method of interpretation; and the possible motives of the participants in this school of interpretation. Through analyses of six esoteric commentaries, Susan Blakeley Klein presents examples of this interpretive method and discusses its influence on subsequent texts, both elite and popular.

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 : 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 : 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