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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.
“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
“Faith that is allergic to questioning is just fundamentalist blind dogma.”
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
― Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry
“It was originally intended to be a mildly nostalgic account of the natural history of the island,”
― The Corfu Trilogy
― The Corfu Trilogy
“If one knows but does not act accordingly, one knows imperfectly’.”
― The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: The Buddha's Way of Mindfulness
― The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: The Buddha's Way of Mindfulness
“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
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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