A Fire Runs through All Things by Susan Murphy

A Fire Runs through All Things by Susan Murphy

At a time of climate emergency, Zen koans show us how crisis itself can reveal the regenerative openness of life, mind, and being.

Zen koans are a tradition of holistic inquiry based on encounter stories from East Asia's most radical Buddhist tradition. Turning this form of inquiry toward the climate crisis, Susan Murphy contends that koans can help us enter the mind of not-knowing, from which acceptance and possibility freely emerge. Koans reveal intimate, mythic, artful, playful, provocative, humorous, and fierce ways to engage the work of protecting and healing our world.

The koans point firstly at ourselves--at the very nature of self. Until we hold self as a live question rather than its own unquestioned answer, we're stuck looking on from the outside, hoping to engineer change upon a problem called climate crisis, all the time oblivious to the fact that we're swimming in a reality with no outside to it, an ocean of transformative energy. Do we dare relinquish our wish for absolute control and fearlessly surf the intensity of our feelings about the suffering earth?

In addition to her use of dozens of traditional and new koans, Murphy illuminates the little-known Zen resonance with the oldest continuous body of indigenous wisdom on earth, summed up in the subtle Australian Aboriginal word>Country. Murphy draws from her study and coteaching with Dulumunmun, Uncle Max Harrison, a distinguished Yuin Elder, to show how this millennia-deep taproot of intelligence confirms the aliveness of the earth and the kinship of all beings.

Dr Susan Murphy is a writer, authorised Zen teacher and filmmaker. Her last book, Upside Down Zen, was published in 2004. Film and television writing credits include The Midas Touch, Secrets (six one-off dramas) and in 1991, her own feature film as writer-director, Breathing Under Water. In 1997 Susan was awarded a five-year QEII Research Fellowship by the Australian Research Council in social ecology. She is a frequent freelance producer of feature radio works for ABC Radio National Radio Eye. She divides her time between Berry and Sydney.

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ISBN 13	9781645471080
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Titel	A Fire Runs through All Things
Autor	Susan Murphy
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Shambhala Publications Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-11-28
Seitenanzahl	240
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