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Paperback: 132 pages
Publisher: Everyday Dharma Zen Center; 1st edition (January 1, 2008)
Carolyn Atkinson, a Dharma Heir and Lineage Holder of the late Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi, is Head Teacher at Everyday Dharma Zen Center in Santa Cruz, California. She also teaches at Stiftung Felsentor in Switzerland. She has been practicing Zen Buddhist meditation since 1973, and has also studied in the Vipassana tradition. After training in San Francisco and China, she practiced Traditional Chinese Medicine for twenty years. She is the mother of two grown sons.
A very helpful and simple explanation of two major types of meditation. Easy to read history of movement of Buddhism from its inception to arriving in the U.S. Ms Atkinson's warmth, understanding, calmness and intelligence shine through. She is a gifted teacher, offering an antidote to our frantic mind.
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This is a guide for deepening one's Buddhist meditation practice - a working manual to use during a multi-week practice period. Not an "at-arm's-length" academic study, this book is to be read progressively, chapter by chapter, as if actually participating in a Buddhist meditation practice period. On a very human level, Carolyn applies Buddhism in a practical manner in a way that is useful to modern day-to-day life by relating history, scientific research, and (best of all) real-life ancedotes full of humor, poignancy and brilliance.
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This book offers me a great resource of compassionate understanding and firm grounding from which to engage my practice and my life. It is accessible and timely.
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The practice period is the traditional Buddhist way to clarify one's spiritual intentions and integrate one's practice into daily life. It can look like a pretty difficult undertaking to a lay person with a job, a family, and a life that offers few opportunities for retreat. But here are the actual dharma talks from such a practice period, engaging and accessible. Here is a door that opens on a pathway to a quiet mind and an open heart.
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