Dancing with Dharma

Dancing with Dharma
Author: Harrison Blum
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2016-02-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476623503

Both Buddhism and dance invite the practitioner into present-moment embodiment. The rise of Western Buddhism, sacred dance and dance/movement therapy, along with the mindfulness meditation boom, has created opportunities for Buddhism to inform dance aesthetics and for Buddhist practice to be shaped by dance. This collection of new essays documents the innovative work being done at the intersection of Buddhism and dance. The contributors--scholars, choreographers and Buddhist masters--discuss movement, performance, ritual and theory, among other topics. The final section provides a variety of guided practices.

Dancing the Dharma

Dancing the Dharma
Author: Susan Blakely Klein
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1684176239

Dancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Susan Blakeley Klein demonstrates how medieval esoteric commentaries on the tenth-century poem-tale Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise) and the first imperial waka poetry anthology Kokin wakashū influenced the plots, characters, imagery, and rhetorical structure of seven plays (Maiguruma, Kuzu no hakama, Unrin’in, Oshio, Kakitsubata, Ominameshi, and Haku Rakuten) and two treatises (Zeami’s Rikugi and Zenchiku’s Meishukushū). In so doing, she shows that it was precisely the allegorical mode—vital to medieval Japanese culture as a whole—that enabled the complex layering of character and poetic landscape we typically associate with noh. Klein argues that understanding noh’s allegorical structure and paying attention to the localized historical context for individual plays are key to recovering their original function as political and religious allegories. Now viewed in the context of contemporaneous beliefs and practices of the medieval period, noh plays take on a greater range and depth of meaning and offer new insights to readers today into medieval Japan.

Dancing With Life

Dancing With Life
Author: Phillip Moffitt
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1605298964

Why do we suffer? Is there a purpose to our pain? Noting that human beings have wrestled with such questions for thousands of years, Phillip Moffitt has found answers for his own life in Buddhist philosophy and meditation. Reflecting on his own journey from Esquire magazine editor-in-chief to Buddhist meditation teacher, Moffitt provides a fresh perspective on the Buddha's ancient wisdom, showing how to move from suffering to new awareness and unanticipated joy. In this deeply spiritual book that is sure to become a Buddhist classic, Moffitt explores the twelve insights that underlie the Buddha's core teaching--the Four Noble Truths--and uses these often neglected ideas to guide readers to a more meaningful relationship to suffering. Moffitt write: "These twelve insights teach you to dance with both the joy and pain, finding peace in a balanced mind and calm spirit. As the most specific, practical life instructions I have ever encountered, they serve as an invaluable tool for anyone who seeks a life filled with meaning and well-being." Practicing these twelve insights, as Moffitt suggests, will help readers experience life's difficulties without being filled with stress and anguish, and they will enhance their moments of happiness. With engaging writing and a strong message of self-empowerment, Dancing with Life offers a prescriptive path for finding joy and peace that will appeal to meditation students and readers of "Dharma Wisdom," Moffitt's column in Yoga Journal, as well as anyone searching for a more authentic life.

Dancing in the Dharma

Dancing in the Dharma
Author: Sandy Boucher
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780807073186

"In the great movement of Buddhism to the West, Ruth Denison has been a pioneer. The first Buddhist teacher to lead an all-women's retreat and the first teacher to use movement and dance to train her students in mindfulness, Denison created a quintessentially female, body-centered way of teaching the Dharma. One of the first meditation instructors at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, she has taught extensively in the United States and Europe for thirty years, helping to establish meditation centers in Canada, Germany, and California. She still teaches at her own center in the Mojave Desert of California." "Capturing the unique charm of Denison's voice in vivid scenes and anecdotes, Sandy Boucher tells the gripping story of Ruth's youth in Nazi-dominated Germany and her struggle to survive the near-fatal abuses and privations that befell her after the war. After immigrating to California, Ruth met and married Henry Denison, a spiritual seeker and Vedanta devotee. Through the sixties and seventies they were active participants in the explorations of the counterculture, hosting parties attended by luminaries like Alan Watts, Aldous and Laura Huxley, and Timothy Leary, and traveling to Asia and Europe to study with the major spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. All this became a rich fertilizer for Ruth's later flowering as a Buddhist teacher in the eighties and nineties, which Boucher examines from Ruth's hesitant first formal meditation retreats, through controversy, to her ripening into a mature, wise, and yet always unpredictable teacher."--BOOK JACKET.

Emptiness Dancing

Emptiness Dancing
Author: Adyashanti
Publisher: Sounds True
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1591798760

There is something about you brighter than the sun and more mysterious than the night sky. Who are you when you are not thinking yourself into existence? What is ultimately behind the set of eyes reading these words? In Emptiness Dancing, Adyashanti invites you to wake up to the essence of what you are, through the natural and spontaneous opening of the mind, heart, and body that holds the secret to happiness and liberation. From the first stages of realization to its evolutionary implications, Adyashanti shares a treasure trove of insights into the challenges of the inner life, offering lucid, down-to-earth advice on topics ranging from the ego, illusion, and spiritual addiction to compassion, letting go, the eternal now, and more. Whether you read each chapter in succession or begin on any page you feel inspired to turn to, you will find in Adyashanti's wisdom an understanding and ever-ready guide to the full wonder of your infinite self-nature.

Dancing with the Devil in the City of God

Dancing with the Devil in the City of God
Author: Juliana Barbassa
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476756279

From prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa comes a deeply reported and beautifully written account of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro as it struggles with poverty and corruption on the brink of the 2016 Olympic Games. Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout her life, but Rio was always home. After twenty-one years abroad, she returned to find her native city—once ravaged by inflation, drug wars, corrupt leaders, and dying neighborhoods—undergoing a major change. Rio has always aspired to the pantheon of global capitals, and under the spotlight of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games it seems that its moment has come. But in order to prepare itself for the world stage, Rio must vanquish the entrenched problems that Barbassa recalls from her childhood. Turning this beautiful but deeply flawed place into a pristine showcase of the best that Brazil has to offer in just a few years is a tall order—and with the whole world watching, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Library Journal called Dancing with the Devil in the City of God “akin to Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit”—a book that “combines history and personal interviews in an informative and engaging work.” This kaleidoscopic portrait of Rio introduces the reader to the people who make up this city of extremes, revealing their aspirations and their grit, their violence, their hungers, and their splendor, and shedding light on the future of this city they are building together. Dancing with the Devil in the City of God is an insider perspective from a native daughter and “a fascinating look at the people who live in and aspire to change one of the world’s most impressive cities” (Booklist, starred review).

Dancing With Siva

Dancing With Siva
Author: Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Publisher: Himalayan Academy Publications
Total Pages: 1270
Release: 2003-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0945497962

This 1,008-page sourcebook answers many questions to quench the soul's thirst for God and Self-knowledge. Every spiritually-inclined human being will be enriched by the path revealed in this extraordinary book. India's tolerant and diverse vision of the Divine is all here: meditative, devotional, philosophical, scriptural and yogic. In question-and-answer style, Dancing with Siva guides the aspirant deep into the Hindu heart. Lavishly illustrated with 165 black and white reproductions of paintings from India. Resources include a Hindu timeline, comparisons of 12 world religions, a children's primer and more.

How to Practice Dharma

How to Practice Dharma
Author: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Publisher: Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1891868284

This expanded edition contains both of the very popular Lama Yeshe booklets, Becoming Your Own Therapist and Make Your Mind an Ocean.Becoming Your Own TherapistFirst published in 1998, this booklet contains three public talks by Lama Yeshe on the general topic of Buddhism. Each lecture is followed by a question and answer session. Lama and his audiences always enjoyed the give and take of these lively exchanges, and pretty much anything went. Although these talks were called lectures, Lama would have each of us use them as a mirror for our minds and look beyond the words, find ourselves, and become our own psychologist.Make Your Mind an OceanThe talks in this booklet are on the general topic of the mind. Two were lunchtime lectures at Melbourne and Latrobe Universities. One was an evening lecture given to the general public. Perhaps of greatest interest is the lecture entitled "A Buddhist Approach to Mental Illness." Lama presented this talk to a group of psychiatrists at Prince Henry's Hospital who were delighted to meet and question Lama, and this historic exchange underscores the difference between Western and Buddhist concepts of mental health.

This Very Moment

This Very Moment
Author: Barbara Dilley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989608121

Memoir & teaching handbook of dance movement practices

Kum Nye Dancing

Kum Nye Dancing
Author: Tarthang Tulku
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Buddhism
ISBN: 9780898000061

This is the third volume in the Kum Nye series, following Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga and The Joy of Being. These movements, postures and dance sequences are invigorating rather than soothing, designed to energize the body and to wake up consciousness. Step- by-step color photographs of the 75 exercises complement the accessible text.