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Being Zen：Bringing Meditation to Life |
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Bayda, Ezra
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| Date | 2002.03.26 (hardcover) |
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| Pages | 160 |
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| Publisher | Shambhala Publications |
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http://www.shambhala.com/
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| Location | Woodstock, Vermont, US |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Foreword by Charlotte Joko Beck
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| Keyword | 禪修=Meditation; 慈愛禪=慈心觀=Loving Kindness Meditation; 慈悲心=Loving Kindness=Compassion=Maitri=Metta |
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| Abstract | How to develop clarity and equanimity amid the stress and commotion of everyday life-using techniques adapted from the Zen tradition. The paradox of Zen is that learning to just live in the present requires lots of hard work.
In Being Zen，seasoned Zen teacher Ezra Bayda unpacks this paradox. He demonstrates the need to just be and then instructs us how to undertake the hard work with precision and persistence.
Through personal anecdotes he shows us how we keep ourselves from living a genuine life. Instead，we maintain an ideal image of ourselves by creating strategies that depend on delusive self-images, blind spots and knee-jerk reactions. He then shows how，by "living the practice life," we can relentlessly observe this process and transform our edifices into open spaces of natural awareness and innate compassion.
Bayda offers specific practices for dealing with such automatic emotions as anger and fear，teaching how they can be dampened and eventually dissolved. A "how-to" book in the best sense of the word，Being Zen is about how to just live.
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| Table of contents | ● PART I：The Basic of Practice
1. Skatting on Thin Ice
2. Fast，Cheap and Out of Control
3. Swiss Cheese
4. Experiencing and the Witness
5. The 84th Problem
6. Three Aspects of Sitting
● PART II：Practicing With Emotional Distress
7. The Substitute Life
8. Practicing With Anger
9. Practicing With Fear
10.Practicing With Pain and Suffering
11.Practicing With Distress
12.Work and Practice
● PART III：Awarking The Heart of Compassion
13.Hard and Soft
14.Letting Be
15.Loving-Kindness
16.Loving-Kindness Meditation
17.Awarkening The Heart of Compassion
● Epilogue：What is Our Life About? |
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| ISBN | 1570628564 |
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| Hits | 352 |
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| Created date | 2003.12.31
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| Modified date | 2014.05.05 |
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