One Hundred Days of Solitude
Losing Myself and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Eastern Religions, Zen Buddhism, New Age, Meditation, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Jane Dobisz | ISBN: | 9780861717378 |
| Publisher: | Wisdom Publications | Publication: | February 8, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Wisdom Publications | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jane Dobisz |
| ISBN: | 9780861717378 |
| Publisher: | Wisdom Publications |
| Publication: | February 8, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Wisdom Publications |
| Language: | English |
In One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing My Self and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat, American teacher of Korean Zen Jane Dobisz (Zen Master Bon Yeon), recalls her first solitary meditation stint in the woods. Luckily, this is not just a recounting of a winter's worth of cabin fever. Instead, Dobisz takes us into her cabin, and into her mind, as she tries--at least temporarily--to live a Walden-like existence.
All the bowing and meditating and wood-chopping that is part and parcel of her retreat is hardly first nature, but the good-humored and tenacious Dobisz is able to adapt, and to relate her hundred days with moving insight and humanity. Her Solitude in fact offers us all a chance to commune with her and to look inside and rediscover our own grace.
In One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing My Self and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat, American teacher of Korean Zen Jane Dobisz (Zen Master Bon Yeon), recalls her first solitary meditation stint in the woods. Luckily, this is not just a recounting of a winter's worth of cabin fever. Instead, Dobisz takes us into her cabin, and into her mind, as she tries--at least temporarily--to live a Walden-like existence.
All the bowing and meditating and wood-chopping that is part and parcel of her retreat is hardly first nature, but the good-humored and tenacious Dobisz is able to adapt, and to relate her hundred days with moving insight and humanity. Her Solitude in fact offers us all a chance to commune with her and to look inside and rediscover our own grace.
