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This is a wonderful book. Shearer has done an amazing job researching both Shankara's life and many teachings and brilliantly weaves them into a smooth tapestry that is both beautiful and inspiring. It is a long book, and so far, about a quarter of t
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Poetry is a solo art form: most lyrics need to leave room for, and craft an affinity with, music – just as lines in a screenplay must be sparse enough to allow for an actor’s interpretation.
“A lot of our culture and its entertainments encourage us to run away from the reality of the aliveness of our life.”
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
“It seems reasonable that knowledge is more analytical and lends itself more easily to conceptualization while wisdom may be more intuitive.”
― Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception
― Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception
“Indeed, if we could experience the full cognitive gamut of eating an orange, that experience in itself would have to be classed as “mystical.”
― Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception
― Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception
“The purpose of Buddhist practice is universal awakening, not dramatic experiences of opening any more than passive states of serenity.”
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
“Time does not exist as some external, objective container, but actually time is exactly our current dynamic activity and awareness.”
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
Elements of Fiction
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It was John Gardner—legendary teacher of the craft—who said that the elements of fiction, like the words in a language, are finite. I set about to ve ...more
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