A Fire Runs through All Things Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis

Free Download Susan Murphy, "A Fire Runs through All Things: Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis"
English | ISBN: 164547108X | 2023 | 248 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
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
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