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The Truth of This Life: Zen Teachings on Loving the World as It Is
Taschenbuch von Katherine Thanas
Sprache: Englisch

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Accessible and elegant teachings from a well-loved and revered woman Zen teacher.

"The truth and joy of this life is that we cannot change things as they are." The import of those words can be found beautifully expressed in the work of the woman who spoke them, Katherine Thanas (1927-2012)-in her art, in her writing, and especially in her Zen teaching. Fearlessly direct and endlessly curious, Katherine's understanding of Zen was inseparable from her affinity for the arts. She was an MFA student studying painting with Richard Diebenkorn, the preeminent Californian abstract painter, when she met Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, in the sixties. Soon thereafter she decided to drop painting to dedicate herself to Zen, which she did for the last forty years of her life. In these essential teachings taken from her dharma talks-which make up her only book-her love of art and literature shine through in her elegant prose and her vast references, from poets William Stafford and Naomi Shihab Nye to the Zen teachings of Dogen and Robert Aitken. Ranging on subjects from the practice of zazen to the meaning of life, Katherine urges us to "develop an insatiable appetite for inner awareness, to become proficient with this mind." This slim volume is an important contribution by a well-loved and revered teacher.
Accessible and elegant teachings from a well-loved and revered woman Zen teacher.

"The truth and joy of this life is that we cannot change things as they are." The import of those words can be found beautifully expressed in the work of the woman who spoke them, Katherine Thanas (1927-2012)-in her art, in her writing, and especially in her Zen teaching. Fearlessly direct and endlessly curious, Katherine's understanding of Zen was inseparable from her affinity for the arts. She was an MFA student studying painting with Richard Diebenkorn, the preeminent Californian abstract painter, when she met Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, in the sixties. Soon thereafter she decided to drop painting to dedicate herself to Zen, which she did for the last forty years of her life. In these essential teachings taken from her dharma talks-which make up her only book-her love of art and literature shine through in her elegant prose and her vast references, from poets William Stafford and Naomi Shihab Nye to the Zen teachings of Dogen and Robert Aitken. Ranging on subjects from the practice of zazen to the meaning of life, Katherine urges us to "develop an insatiable appetite for inner awareness, to become proficient with this mind." This slim volume is an important contribution by a well-loved and revered teacher.
Über den Autor
Katherine Thanas; edited by Natalie Goldberg and Bill Anelli
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Östliche Philosophie
Genre: Philosophie
Region: Osten
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781611804683
ISBN-10: 161180468X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Thanas, Katherine
Redaktion: Goldberg, Natalie
Anelli, Bill
Hersteller: Penguin Random House LLC
Maße: 214 x 137 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Katherine Thanas
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2018
Gewicht: 0,226 kg
Artikel-ID: 121070859
Über den Autor
Katherine Thanas; edited by Natalie Goldberg and Bill Anelli
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Östliche Philosophie
Genre: Philosophie
Region: Osten
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781611804683
ISBN-10: 161180468X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Thanas, Katherine
Redaktion: Goldberg, Natalie
Anelli, Bill
Hersteller: Penguin Random House LLC
Maße: 214 x 137 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Katherine Thanas
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2018
Gewicht: 0,226 kg
Artikel-ID: 121070859
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