Vajragupta

Wild Awake (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

What is it like to be completely alone, attempting to face your experience with only nature for company? Author Vajragupta has been doing just that every year for 25 years. Here he recounts how solitary retreats have changed him, how he fell in love with the places he stayed in and the creatures there. He reflects on how the outer world and his inner world began to speak more deeply to each other. Also includes an 'A-to-Z' guide of how to do your own solitary retreat.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Windhorse Publications
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911407195
• Artikelnr.: 52723655

Autorenporträt

Vajragupta was born Richard Stauton in 1968 and grew up in Bromley, London. He studied psychology and sociology at Aston University, and first came in contact with Buddhism in Birmingham in 1990. He was ordained in 1994 and given the name "Vajragupta", which means "secret, or hidden, diamond-like truth". He was director of the Birmingham Buddhist Centre from 1997 to 2005, and still teaches Buddhism and meditation at classes and retreats across the Midlands. He was Director of the Triratna Development Team from 2006 to 2013. These days he is living and working at Adhisthana, a retreat centre in Herefordshire, UK. He is author of Buddhism: Tools for Living Your Life (2007), The Triratna Story: Behind the Scenes of a New Buddhist Movement (2010) and Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Way Through the Ups and Downs of Life (2011), all published by Windhorse Publications. Vajragupta enjoys nature and wild places, and also loves gardening, poetry, and the visual arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements xi
Publisher's acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
1 The gaze of the sea 3
2 The secret valley 19
3 Mind is more fleet than the feet 33
4 Through the green gate 49
5 A murder of crows 65
6 A night on Hawk Hill 81
7 Solitary together 93
8 'World is crazier and more of it than we think' 105
9 Green fire 127
10 The return journey 139
Appendix 1
An A-to-Z guide to solitary retreats 151
Appendix 2
Two ritual texts for being alone and aware in nature 183
Notes 187