In Buddha's Kitchen by Kimberley Snow
Kimberley Snow offers an outrageously funny and honest account of her adventures as head cook at a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center. With her earthy sensibility and sharp sense of humor, the author shows this world in a light devoid of preciousness-while expressing with heart the integrity of the spiritual work being undertaken. We come away from our visit to this exotic realm having found it both extraordinary and surprisingly familiar. The neuroses, obsessions, and petty concerns exposed by Snow-both in herself and her fellow staff members-prove to be grist for the mill for discovering the grace inherent in life just as it is.Kimberley Snow is a Ph.D. candidate. is the only one competent to write Writing Yourself Alive. She traveled to a Tibetan Retreat Center in Northern California after finishing graduate school and taught literature and writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for the following six years, where she studied Buddhist psychology, edited dharma publications, and worked as a cook. In Buddha's Kitchen: Cooking, Getting Cooked, and Other Experiences in a Retreat Center (Shambhala), she recounts these encounters. When she returned to Santa Barbara, she started teaching courses that increasingly combined writing and dharma.
She discovered that for Western students, writing is a natural way to integrate both the insights and the messy material that arises during meditation. She worked as the Program Director for the Santa Barbara Institute of Consciousness for five years in the late 2000s, which was founded by long-time mediation teacher B. She assisted Alan Wallace in writing the guidebook for Developing Emotional Balance, a program that HH Dalai Lama had requested to reduce emotional distress. After input from participants in related workshops, she expanded the journaling component to include poetry, playwriting, and fiction as useful ways of expressing the emotional core.
She and a local therapist have been teaching an offshoot of the CEB training called Developing Emotional Balance through Mindfulness for the past four years, which includes a heavy writing component as well as meditation and contemplation. Writing Yourself Alive has been updated to include these exercises and strategies. Kimberley Snow grew up in Greenwood, South Carolina, and has subsequently resided in North Dakota and North Carolina, where she worked as a researcher for J.B. Hunt. Rhine works in the Department of Parapsychology at Duke University.
Multiple, her play, took first place in the 17th Annual Playwriting Contest at Jacksonville University. A play on restaurant life, Dragon Soup & Other Intense Sensations, was performed at a restaurant that served the same dish to the audience as the one being prepared in the play. In late 2011, World Parade Books published It Changes, her story about Chef Savannah and a poet named Leo Stein. Writing Yourself Home (Conari) and Keys to the Open Gate (Conari) are two of her other works.
She currently resides in Santa Barbara, California, where she facilitates seminars and retreats on a variety of dharma topics, the majority of which include writing and meditation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781590301470 |
| ISBN 10 | 1590301471 |
| Title | In Buddha's Kitchen |
| Author | Kimberley Snow |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2004-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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