Encouraging Words - Hardcover

Aitken, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067941701X ISBN 13: 9780679417019

Publisher: Pantheon, 1993

Synopsis

Hardcover: 230 pages Publisher: Pantheon; 1st edition (March 9, 1993) Language: English ISBN-10: 067941701X ISBN-13: 978-0679417019 Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Encouraging Words is a collection of short talks and brief essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his students at meditation retreats during the past two decades. They are arranged according to themes central to all spiritual seekers -- attention, emptiness, coming and going, diligence, death and the afterlife, the sacred self, and the moral path. Aitken provides guidance on pursuing religious practice in a lay context, "re-casting the Dharma to include women, jobs, and family." He also charts his own quest to develop a set of moral codes in keeping with Buddhism's basic precepts and honoring the enormous ethical challenges faced in the twentieth century.

From the Back Cover:

"The inspiration that guided monks and nuns in ancient times is our own deepest incentive as we establish our practice in a world that desperately needs new forms of kinship and love."

-- Robert Aitken

"Aitken's title says it all. Encouraging Words will appeal to both beginning and advanced Zen lay students who seek to integrate their spiritual practice into everyday life. Curious readers will be rewarded, too. Here is a teacher both wise and practical in equal measure."

-- RONN RONCK,

Honolulu Advertiser

Encouraging Words was nominated for the Tricycle Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Buddhism in America.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 067941701X
• ISBN 13: 9780679417019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230