(Free download) The Backward Step: Essays on Zen Practice
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| #4101394 in Books | Ben Howard | 2014-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.53 x5.51l,.66 | File Name: 0977095614 | 234 pages | The Backward Step Essays on Zen Practice
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Essays on Zen Practice|By Mary Wall|This book is very easy to read. The essays are a nice length. I can start my day with a little lesson. I went to college at Alfred University from 1978-1981 and I knew Ben Howard from that time. It is an interesting experience to read these essays and have a connection to the environment they are coming from.|1 of 1 people found the fol|| '''Don't say that a stomach cramp is less than pleasant. Say that it hurts.' This is how Ben Howard . . . explains Ernest Hemingway's fourth rule for writing: 'Be positive, not negative.' Rather than urging us to smile and be happy, Howard says that He
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," wr...
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