Karen Maezen Miller

Paradise in Plain Sight (eBook, ePUB)

Lessons from a Zen Garden

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Come See the Garden That Is Your Life When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers give love, and leaves express the effortless ease of letting go. The book welcomes readers into the garden for Zen lessons in fearlessness, forgiveness, presence, acceptance, and contentment. Miller gathers inspiration from the ground beneath her feet to remind us that paradise is always here and now.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New World Library
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608682539
• Artikelnr.: 40826272

Autorenporträt

Karen Maezen Miller is an errant wife, delinquent mother, reluctant dog walker, and expert laundress, as well as a Zen Buddhist priest and meditation teacher at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She is the author of Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, and her writing is also included in the anthologies The Best Buddhist Writing 2007 and The Maternal Is Political. She offers retreats and workshops around the country. You can catch up with her writing and events at www.karenmaezenmiller.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Paradise
Part One: Coming Here
Have faith in yourself as the Way.
1. Curb: The View from a Distance
2. Gate: What’s Holding You Back
3. Path: Straight On
4. Ground: Here It Is
5. Sun: What You See
6. Moon: What You Don’t See
Part Two: Living Now
Cover the ground where you stand.
7. Rocks: The Remains of Faith
8. Ponds: The Right View
9. Roots: The Meaning of Life
10. Bamboo: A Forest of Emptiness
11. Palm: The Eternal Now
12. Pine: A Disappearing Breed
Part Three: Letting Go
Make the effort of no effort.
13. Fruit: Swallowing Whole
14. Flowers: Love Is Letting Go
15. Leaves: The Age of Undoing
16. Weeds: A Flourishing Practice
17. Song: Not What You Know
18. Silence: Not What I Say
Epilogue: Rules for a Mindful Garden
Acknowledgments
Permissions
About the Author