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An essential guide to what it's like to spend a week inside a Zen Buddhist monastery.
The notion of spending days at a time in silence and meditation amid the serene beauty of a Zen monastery may be appealing-but how do you do it, and what can you really expect from the experience?
Waking Up provides the answers for everyone who's just curious, as well as for all those who have dreamed of actually giving it a try and now want to know where to begin.
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Robert E. Buswell, Jr., is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among his other works is The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea (Princeton).
Robert Buswell, a Buddhist scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea, draws on personal experience in this insightful account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities...
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"En la mesa de monje Budista, la comida se sirve para nutrir el alma. Alimentación y espiritualidad: un manual práctico e inspirador para comer bien."--
"The importance of food and its ritual are fundamental in all cultures, but in Zen philosophy they reach a unique relevance and poetry. There are rules about how to prepare and serve food, take food, arrange utensils on the table, wash them, and put them away after use. The correct application...
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"Disillusioned with the rat race, thirty-year-old Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend, and his job as a designer in Tokyo to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, Japan's strictest and most revered Zen monastery. Deep in the mountains of remote Fukui Prefecture, trainee monks live a life of hardship that few could endure ... Yet Nonomura's account of his time at Eiheiji is full of warmth, humor, and gratitude ... A bestseller...