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This Truth Never Fails: A Zen Memoir in Four Seasons

Autor David Rynick
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2012
"This Truth Never Fails" is a playful yet well-grounded narrative of a year in the life of an unusual Zen master. Far from the silent and detached stereotype of Zen teachers, Rynick writes with disarming humor, offering both the struggles and the joys of ordinary life as opportunities for insight. Anyone looking for inspiration to bring a simple spiritual awareness into their daily lives, and also those interested in finding ways to more deeply integrate faith (in any tradition) with practice will find this book reassuring and encouraging.
This book appeals to the broad "mindfulness" and "general spirituality" audiences that transcend any one formal tradition. Leaning toward Anne Lamott's humor, universal spirituality, and Mary Oliver's love of the natural world, Rynick's writing bypasses Zen theory and doctrine. Simple, clear prose illustrates, vividly, an insightful and tender appreciation of ordinary life as the Way itself.
Includes a brief "study guide for further inquiry" offering opportunities for personal reflection and exploration on themes touched on in the book.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781614290087
ISBN-10: 1614290083
Pagini: 198
Dimensiuni: 124 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Wisdom Publications (MA)

Recenzii

“This short book features keen observations and a gentle charm. Rynick shows an ability to find grace in the smallest detail.”—Publishers Weekly

“David Rynick is an engagingly honest writer. Tenderness infuses the whole work.”—Buddha Space

“This is a positive, thoughtful book that is written to inspire. In its quietly amusing and gently guiding way, it illustrates how simple tasks can be transformed into little gifts on a spiritual pathway.”—ForeWord Magazine

“A delight to read. Rynick is a gifted writer and storyteller with a poet's eye and a Zen master's ease in dispensing wisdom. He can be counted on to deliver sensitive insights about the human spirit as revealed in ordinary experiences.”—Spirituality &Practice

“I highly recommend that you read this book. Savor its pages. Read it slowly. It will lift up your spirits.”—UU Sangha

“No doubt it will be treasured by many.”—Boonville Daily News

“With the ever-constant changing of the seasons as a guide, Rynick takes us on a journey, bearing witness to the simplicity and elegance of the every day, the moment in hand, the singular and unique breath.”—SweepingZen.com

“David Rynick has a knack for converting Zen perspectives into beautiful prose. An extraordinarily perceptive paean to purposeful living." —Richard Leider, bestselling author of The Power of Purpose and Repacking Your Bags

“David Rynick’s wisdom comes through Zen, and then takes us beyond Zen into simple, creative, and joyful aliveness” —Robert A. Jonas, author of Henri Nouwen

“Compelling and deeply touching.” —Lin Jensen, author of Deep Down Things

“Honest, practical, and humbly incisive.” —Susan Murphy, author Upside-Down Zen

“Joyful, luminous, and illuminating—this book is intimacy itself.” —Prof. James Cordova, PhD, author of The Marriage Checkup

“With poetic prose and deep insight, with honesty and gentle humor, Rynick teaches without teaching.” —Whitney Stewart, author of Becoming Buddha

"Not only is it a work of deep wisdom, gentle humor, and extraordinary clear seeing by a teacher of international renown, but an invitation for each of us to taste for ourselves what is true.” —Mark Williams, coauthor of The Mindful Way through Depression

“People of any or of no religious affiliation who seek meaning, joy and aliveness in their daily walk will appreciate this wonderful, thought-filled book.” —Rev. Dr. Jane Tomaine, author of St. Benedict’s Toolbox

“Filled with the joy of what it means to be alive.” —The Rt. Rev. Mark Beckwith, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark

“David Rynick shares a year’s worth of beautifully ordinary mind moments that carry us through the seasons to surprise, heal, and awaken. This Truth Never Fails is a gentle and lovely companion for our journey.” —Rafe Martin, author of Endless Path and The Banyan Deer

“These scenes from Rynick's are teaching stories that take us straight back to love.” —Susan Moon, author of This Is Getting Old

“David’s love of nature, his warmth and compassion, his full humanity, shine forth on every page” —Paul Ropp, author of China in World History

“A loving book that makes you happy when you pick it up and read any chapter.” —John Tarrant, author of Bring Me the Rhinoceros and Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life

“David Rynick is a master of the koans of everyday life: of stuckness, impatience, and self-doubt.” —Barry Magid, author of Ending the Pursuit of Happiness

“I love this book! It’s intimate, honest, real. A book to be savored a few pages at a time.” —Frank Jude Boccio, author of Mindfulness Yoga

“Beautifully written.” —Cheryl Wilfong, author The Meditative Gardener

“Delightful! David Rynick brings the profound nature of our journey as humans into an everyday realness we all can relate to.” —Claude Stein, director of The Natural Singer Workshop

“David Rynick makes everyday Zen practice come alive in this delightful, heartfelt, easy-to-digest volume.” —Ronald D. Siegel, author of The Mindfulness Solution

This Truth Never Fails had me laugh out loud, and cry, all while filling me with wonder. This is a deeply intimate book—and an elegant and rich offering worthy of savoring.” —Faith Fuller, PhD, founder of CRR Global

“A lovely reminder of the simple essence of an aware life.” —Rev. Dr. Terasa G. Cooley, director for congregational life, Unitarian Universalist Association

“Let this book fill your heart with gratefulness and the true wonder of what it means to be truly alive.” —Bob Stahl, author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook and Living With Your Heart Wide Open

“A map to treasures of unsurpassable value—the extraordinary miracles that may be found in ordinary moments of life.” —Steve Flowers, author of The Mindful Path through Shyness

“The beautifully crafted prose here bridges the distance among us. A gift to the earthly senses, this book is also a lilting song of the heart and true treasure for the mind.” —Deborah Schoeberlein, author of Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness

This Truth Never Fails is a raw and tender disclosure of the interior of a true Zen life.” —Dosho Port, author of Keep Me in Your Heart a While

“David Rynick writes with the mind of a Zen teacher and the heart of a lover of the Mystery.” —James Baraz, coauthor of Awakening Joy

Notă biografică

David Rynick is a Zen teacher authorized in two lineages, a Korean Linji lineage and Japanese Soto one. He’s a founding teacher of Boundless Way Zen, a rapidly expanding national network of Zen groups. Since 1991 Rynick has worked as a life and leadership coach as part of the International Coaching Federation and through the Coaches Training Institute. He provides faith-based coaching to individuals and peer coaching for clergy from diverse faiths. He has created and led numerous professional workshops and classes on leadership, systems thinking, coaching, meditation, diversity, and creativity, and has served as a faculty member at Cambridge College and the president of his Universalist Unitarian church. A former professional potter and improvisational dancer, he is also an avid landscape gardener as well as licensed as a Certified Maine Kayak Guide. Rynick holds a B.A. and an M.A.L.S. from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. He is the resident teacher of the Boundless Way Zen Temple in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, also a Zen teacher.

Descriere

This Truth Never Fails is a playful yet well-grounded narrative of a year in the life of an unusual Zen master. Far from the silent and detached stereotype of Zen teachers, Rynick writes with disarming humor, offering both the struggles and the joys of ordinary life as opportunities for insight. Anyone looking for inspiration to bring a simple spiritual awareness into their daily lives, and also those interested in finding ways to more deeply integrate faith (in any tradition) with practice will find this book reassuring and encouraging.
This book appeals to the broad “mindfulness” and “general spirituality” audiences that transcend any one formal tradition. Leaning toward Anne Lamott’s humor, universal spirituality, and Mary Oliver’s love of the natural world, Rynick’s writing bypasses Zen theory and doctrine. Simple, clear prose illustrates, vividly, an insightful and tender appreciation of ordinary life as the Way itself.
This edition includes a brief "study guide for further inquiry" offering opportunities for personal reflection and exploration on themes touched on in the book.