MAKING YOUR LIFE INTO A ZEN KOAN
"Life Is Not A Problem To Solve, But A Wonderful Adventure To Enjoy"
MAKING YOUR LIFE INTO A ZEN KOAN
"Life Is Not A Problem To Solve, But A Wonderful Adventure To Enjoy"
MAKING YOUR LIFE INTO A ZEN KOAN
Koans are such powerful medicine, they must not be ignored. These ancient dilemmas, questions and stories coming from the world of Zen hold a key to transforming suffering and seeing life with new eyes.
Life presents inscrutable challenges daily that are impossible to figure out. In the world of Zen, these ancient dilemmas and questions are called koans. They cannot be answered in the usual way. And yet a response must be made!
ZEN PLAY connects these ancient koans with our everyday life. The book shows how our problems are none other than koans that life is presenting to us now. When we learn how to engage with difficulties as though they were Zen koans, everything changes. We stop trying to figure everything out, twist ourselves into knots and control our every action. Then wonderful insights come all by themselves and we connect with our inner aliveness and joy.
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"Brenda's Zen work is a good place to begin, to begin again and to never finish. Those searching for the "Way will find there is no such thing. But much more, Brenda's book is delightful. Those suffering from "frozen attention" will laugh at ourselves."
Fr. Robert Kennedy Roshi, Founder Morningstar Zen
"Brenda Shoshanna's book, Zen Play, is a brilliant gem, the grace and precision of turning problems into koans keeps us spellbound. Koans like, "Find Your Precious Jewel," remind us to stop looking outside for what can only be found within. And, "Drink A Cup of Green Tea," restores us to beautiful simplicity and clarity, which ignites our spirit of aliveness. I've read it from the first page to the last, love it, and highly recommend it."
Michiko J. Rolek, Author, Life coach, Great granddaughter of Sokei-an Shigestsu Sassaki, First Zen Patriarch of the West.
"Brenda Shoshanna is one of the most innovative and provacative Buddhist thinkers in the United States today. In Zen Play she provides a compelling new approach to traditional koan study - one that offers the reader the opportunity to turn his or her whole life into a koan. Written in a simple yet evocative style and filled with timeless wisdom, Zen Play is a work that will appeal to both newcomes to Zen as well as those seeking to deepen their understanding of koan practice."
Michael S. Russo, Ph.d., Professor of Philosophy, Molloy College
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Join Us For The Workshop
MAKING YOUR LIFE INTO A ZEN KOAN
Eshin Brenda Shoshanna
You are invited to join us for a lively, fun filled, interactive workshop in which we will explore the process of turning our life problems into Zen Koans.
During the workshop each one has a chance to take a part in acting out a Zen Koan. As we repeat it again and again, we take a different role in it, until we have experienced and embodied all aspects of the koan.
As we then explore the roles we played we see what happened to our dilemma as we let go of one viewpoint and took on the next.
We then take a problem from our everyday life, and turn it into a Zen Koan. Rather than struggle with it or try to figure it out, we accept it fully. Then we take turns acting all roles and aspects of it.
When we view our problems as koans, with infinite points of view and possibilities, everything changes and new doors open all by themselves.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT topspeaker@yahoo.com
OR
MAKING YOUR LIFE INTO A ZEN KOAN
Eshin Brenda Shoshanna
You are invited to join us for a lively, fun filled, interactive workshop in which we will explore the process of turning our life problems into Zen Koans.
During the workshop each one has a chance to take a part in acting out a Zen Koan. As we repeat it again and again, we take a different role in it, until we have experienced and embodied all aspects of the koan.
As we then explore the roles we played we see what happened to our dilemma as we let go of one viewpoint and took on the next.
We then take a problem from our everyday life, and turn it into a Zen Koan. Rather than struggle with it or try to figure it out, we accept it fully. Then we take turns acting all roles and aspects of it.
When we view our problems as koans, with infinite points of view and possibilities, everything changes and new doors open all by themselves.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT topspeaker@yahoo.com
OR
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