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Joan Halifax

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born

The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.upaya.org/roshi/

genre

Religion & Spirituality, Health, Mind & Body

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Joan Halifax is a Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Halifax has received dharma transmission from both Bernard Glassman and Thich Nhat Hanh, and studied under Korean master Seung Sahn. In the 1970s she collaborated on LSD research projects with her ex-husband Stanislav Grof, in addition to other collaborative efforts with Joseph Campbell and Alan Lomax. As a socially engaged Buddhist, Halifax has done extensive work through her Project on Being with Dying. She is on the board of directors of the Mind and Life Institute, a non-profit organization expl...more

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Books by Joan Halifax

Average rating: 4.11 · 265 ratings · 36 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death by Joan Halifax, Ira Byock (Foreword) 4.13 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom by Joan Halifax, Thich Nhat Hanh (Foreword) 3.96 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Shamanic Voices: A Survey of Visionary Narratives by Joan Halifax, John Halifax 3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Shaman: The Wounded Healer 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Being with Dying: Contemplative Practices and Teachings 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Buddhist Life in America: Simplicity in the Complex by Joan Halifax, Thich Nhat Hanh (Foreword by), Ronald F. Thiemann (Introduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield (Afterword), Joan Halifax (Introduction) 4.29 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Shaman's Doorway: Opening Imagination to Power and Myth by Stephen Larsen, Joan Halifax (Foreword by) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression by Taigen Daniel Leighton, Joan Halifax (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Human Encounters with Death by Stanislav Grof, Joan Halifax, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (Foreword) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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“In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?”
― Joan Halifax

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“This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.”
― Joan Halifax, The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom

tags: dharma , healing , shamanism

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“All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.”
― Joan Halifax