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The Backward Step: Essays on Zen Practice

The Backward Step: Essays on Zen Practice

Ben Howard
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Published originally as biweekly columns, the fifty essays in this collection bring the age-old practice of Zen to bear upon contemporary life. Whether their immediate subject be shoveling snow or baking bread, the "virtues of solitude" or the emotional dimension of social media, these lucid, graceful essays explore the manifold ways by which we might take the "backward step," shifting our orientation from ego-centered thinking to selfless awareness. "Wise and true," writes Roshi Joan Halifax of The Backward Step, "this wonderful book transmits the essence of practice realization."
Pages
234
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Whitlock Publishing
Release
January 15, 2014
ISBN
0977095614
ISBN 13
9780977095612

The Backward Step: Essays on Zen Practice

Ben Howard
5/5 ( ratings)
Published originally as biweekly columns, the fifty essays in this collection bring the age-old practice of Zen to bear upon contemporary life. Whether their immediate subject be shoveling snow or baking bread, the "virtues of solitude" or the emotional dimension of social media, these lucid, graceful essays explore the manifold ways by which we might take the "backward step," shifting our orientation from ego-centered thinking to selfless awareness. "Wise and true," writes Roshi Joan Halifax of The Backward Step, "this wonderful book transmits the essence of practice realization."
Pages
234
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Whitlock Publishing
Release
January 15, 2014
ISBN
0977095614
ISBN 13
9780977095612

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