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The great spring : writing, Zen, and this zigzag life / Natalie Goldberg.
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- ISBN: 9781611803167 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: xv, 207 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Boulder, CO : Shambhala, 2016.
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| Subject: | Authorship. Creative writing. Zen Buddhism. |
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Shares a collection of personal stories that shed light on how the author's Zen practice has informed her writing and shaped her worldview. - Book News
Goldberg offers this memoir centered around the two anchors of writing and zen practice. The tender volume begins with a few pointed chapters on the first few formative experiences that introduced her to these practices. Her youth spent trying to make sense of life continues the narrative. As the book reaches its middle, she takes a more teacherly tone and tells stories of teaching, as she reached a balance of giving and taking insight in her life. The further challenges of middle age, loss, and change gave her new material to fertilize her practices. The memoir ends with the best of her understandings to date, with the two practices converging on common truths. Each section opens with a cryptic koan, and although arranged overall in a chronological flow, the page by page narrative flits between past and future to impart the gestalt of the story. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Random House, Inc.
From the beloved writing teacher behind Writing Down the Bones comes a treasury of personal stories reflecting a life filled with journeysâinner and outerâzigzagging around the world and home again
Here, Natalie Goldberg shares those vivid moments that have wakened her to new ways of being. We follow alongside her mapless meanderings in the New Mexican desert and her pilgrimages to Bob Dylanâs birthplace and to Larry McMurtryâs dusty Texas ghost town of rare books. We feel her deep hunger while she sits zazen in a monastery in Japan, and her profound loss when she hears of the passing of a dear friend while teaching in the French countryside.
Through it all, she remains grounded in a life informed by two constants: the practices of writing and of Zen. With humor and insight, Natalie encircles around the essential questions these paths compel her toward:Â Where does this life lead? Who are we?
This is a book to be relished one awakening at a time. Each story is a reminder that no matter how hard the situation or desolate you may feel, spring will come again, breaking through a cold winter, bringing early yellow forsythia flowers. And the Great Spring of enlightenmentâthat sudden rush of acceptance, pain cracking open, obstructions shatteringâwill also burst forth. - Random House, Inc.
From beloved writing teacher and author of the best-selling Writing Down the Bones: a treasury of personal stories reflecting a life filled with journeysâinner and outerâzigzagging around the world and home again.
Here, Natalie Goldberg, "a writer both energized and enlightened" (Julia Cameron), shares those vivid moments that have wakened her to new ways of being. We follow alongside her mapless meanderings in the New Mexican desert and her pilgrimages to Bob Dylan's birthplace and to Larry McMurtry's dusty Texas ghost town of rare books. We feel her deep hunger while she sits zazen in a monastery in Japan, and her profound loss when she hears of the passing of a dear friend while teaching in the French countryside.
Through it all, she remains grounded in a life informed by two constants: the practices of writing and of Zen. With humor and insight, Natalie encircles around the essential questions these paths compel her toward:Where does this life lead? Who are we?
This is a book to be relished one awakening at a time. Each story is a reminder that no matter how hard the situation or desolate you may feel, spring will come again, breaking through a cold winter, bringing early yellow forsythia flowers. And the Great Spring of enlightenmentâthat sudden rush of acceptance, pain cracking open, obstructions shatteringâwill also burst forth.
