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Being Bodies: Buddhist Women on the Paradox
By: Leonore Firedman & Susan Moon (Editors)

Being Bodies: Buddhist Women on the Paradox
 
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Author: Leonore Firedman & Susan Moon (Editors)
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781570623240
Publication Date: 1998


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The relationship between body and mind has always been a topic of speculation, and spirited discussion. The authors of the pieces contained in this anthology address be problem from the unique dual perspective of being women and being students of Buddhism. 'We spend our lives in bodies, and if we realize anything: we care to call 'enlightenment, it's in our bodies; ln this book we wanted to address a tendency we've both observed for spiritual seekers to leave be body behind. From our study of the dharma we are clear that the body is not the ultimate truth, and that attachment to it causes suffering. But still, we don't simply leap into the realm of the Absolute. The Absolute is here, we say, in each embodied moment-when we breathe, when we sweat, when we bleed, when we feel desire'-from the Editors' Introduction.
Lenore Friedman is the author of Meetings with Remarkable Women Buddhist Teachers in America. Susan Moon is editor of Turning Wheel, the magazine of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, and author of The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi.

Being Bodies, Leonore Friedman & Susan Moon, (Editors), Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 240 Pages, $17.95

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