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Benedict's Dharma : Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Editor's Preface; CHAPTER ONE: THE TRELLIS; General guidelines for an inner journey; Contemplation can be practiced anyplace; Spiritual motivation changes in the course of practice; To help human goodness grow; CHAPTER TWO: FREEDOM AND FORGIVENESS; Structure, boundary, and freedom; Freedom of not knowing; Freedom in clear awareness; Freedom in an undefended place; The knife needs some place to land; Freedom from guilt; Freedom in the mind's mirror; Freedom and skillful means; The quality of our permeability; Freedom from comparison; Freedom from fear.
- What does it mean that I have this car?Urgency and impermanence; Nonattachment; Generosity; Benefit of all; Look at each other and ask for forgiveness; Not easy to enter, not easy to leave; Doubt as a fresh frontier; Vows that can't be kept completely but can be constantly repaired; Transforming spiritual crisis into awakening; Love and emptiness; CHAPTER THREE: DISCIPLINE AND SPONTANEITY; Something a little more steady and normal in our lives; Discipline requires teacher, practice, community; Discipline overcomes impulse; Discipline becomes natural; Restraint and spontaneity; Why be good?
- Impermanence and many livesThe psalms and the million recitations; Discipline beyond what one ""can do; Shopping for yogurt; The proper amount of food and drink; Kitchen work a form of spiritual cultivation; Eating supports spiritual practice; It all depends on motivation; CHAPTER FOUR: TRADITION AND ADAPTATION; Commitments in constantly changing circumstances; Crucible for transformation; Mandala of community; Usual criteria for leadership don't apply; Embodying the spirit of the tradition; Walking a tightrope across a chasm; There is no way not to adapt; How I came to the Dharma.
- The resistance I facedA never-ending learning and adapting; The Buddha's flexibility; Monastic similarities; Monastic differences; Teachers cannot teach everything; The paradox of will; God and the Dharma; Humility and adaptability; The monastery wall always permeable; Adjusting asceticism; Encountering differences; Succession and accessibility; CHAPTER FIVE: LEADERSHIP AND HUMILITY; An experimental place; Benedict's warmheartedness; A path of self-transcendence; Developing joy and freedom; Contemplation and action; Gentleness and urgency; Getting unstuck.
- Descend with the view, ascend with the practiceFinding our inheritance; We tend to be too hard on ourselves; The building blocks of compassion; What happens at the summit; Resistance and renunciation; After all, one never knows; Spiritual leadership; Obedience as a skillful means for awakening; No one is up to the task; Nothing beneath attention; Taking care of one's own happiness; Deeds more than words; Just doing a monastic's business; Authority and empowerment; The oddness and usefulness of humility; Not eliminated, but turned; Depth and accuracy; Ladders and bridges.