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Author: Jay Sankey Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135470561 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 175
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Jay Sankey--stand-up comic, magician, and cartoonist--is back with another book for performers. Building on the success of his Zen and the Art of Stand-up Comedy, Jay is moving further into the uncharted wilds of solo performance.
Author: Jay Sankey Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135470561 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 175
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Jay Sankey--stand-up comic, magician, and cartoonist--is back with another book for performers. Building on the success of his Zen and the Art of Stand-up Comedy, Jay is moving further into the uncharted wilds of solo performance.
Author: Jay Sankey Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136555633 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 234
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In this engaging and disarmingly frank book, comic Jay Sankey spills the beans, explaining not only how to write and perform stand-up comedy, but how to improve and perfect your work. Much more than a how-to manual Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy is the most detailed and comprehensive book on the subject to date.
Author: Shoji Yamada Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022678424X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 299
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In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of Archery and the Ryoanji dry-landscape rock garden. Yamada shows how both became facile conduits for exporting and importing Japanese culture. First published in German in 1948 and translated into Japanese in 1956, Herrigel’s book popularized ideas of Zen both in the West and in Japan. Yamada traces the prewar history of Japanese archery, reveals how Herrigel mistakenly came to understand it as a traditional practice, and explains why the Japanese themselves embraced his interpretation as spiritual discipline. Turning to Ryoanji, Yamada argues that this epitome of Zen in fact bears little relation to Buddhism and is best understood in relation to Chinese myth. For much of its modern history, Ryoanji was a weedy, neglected plot; only after its allegorical role in a 1949 Ozu film was it popularly linked to Zen. Westerners have had a part in redefining Ryoanji, but as in the case of archery, Yamada’s interest is primarily in how the Japanese themselves have invested this cultural site with new value through a spurious association with Zen.
Author: Joe Hyams Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0307755509 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 145
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"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."--Samurai Maximum. Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than 25 years of experience in the martial arts. In his illuminating story, Hyams reveals to you how the daily application of Zen principles not only developed his physical expertise but gave him the mental discipline to control his personal problems-self-image, work pressure, competition. Indeed, mastering the spiritual goals in martial arts can dramatically alter the quality of your life-enriching your relationships with people, as well as helping you make use of all your abilities.
Author: Mark Lawrence McPhail Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791428030 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 240
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Explores relationships between classical and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and their connection to the underlying assumptions at work in Zen Buddhism.
Author: Eugen Herrigel Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK) ISBN: 9780140190748 Category : Archery Languages : en Pages : 107
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The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this timeless account. This book is the result of the author's six year quest to learn archery in the hands of Japanese Zen masters. It is an honest account of one man's journey to complete abandonment of 'the self' and the Western principles that we use to define ourselves. Professor Herrigel imparts knowledge from his experiences and guides the reader through physical and spiritual lessons in a clear and insightful way. Mastering archery is not the key to achieving Zen, and this is not a practical guide to archery. It is more a guide to Zen principles and learning and perfect for practitioners and non-practitioners alike.
Author: Susan Blackmore Publisher: Oneworld Publications ISBN: 9781851686421 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 0
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Using Zen meditation to unravel the mysteries of consciousness. The calming and de-stressing benefits of Zen meditation have long been known, but scientists are now considering its huge potential to influence our ability to understand and experience consciousness – though few will say it! Susan Blackmore is about to change all that: she’s a world expert in brain science who has also been practising Zen meditation for over twenty-five years. In this revolutionary book, she doesn’t push any religious or spiritual agenda but simply presents the methods used in Zen as an aid to help us understand consciousness and identity – concepts which have stumped scientists and philosophers – in an exciting new way. Each chapter takes as its starting point one of Zen’s - and science's - most intriguing questions such as, "Am I conscious now?" and "How does thought arise?"
Author: Mark McPhail Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791428047 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 220
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Explores relationships between classical and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and their connection to the underlying assumptions at work in Zen Buddhism.
Author: Hal W. French Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 9781887714457 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 180
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A guidebook to recognizing and incorporating Zen thinking in everyday life. It encourages opportunities for mindfulness in commonplace human actions like breathing, speaking, waking, sleeping, moving, staying, eating, drinking, working, playing, caring, loving, thriving and surviving.
Author: Brad Tassell Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781530695331 Category : Languages : en Pages : 134
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This all started with a story I have told a hundred times. It's a story that isn't technically true - the punchline of the story anyway, the rest is pretty accurate and the underlying verisimilitude is undeniable. It goes like this. I pubed late. A verb I believe I made up. I was a late bloomer. An adolescent whose body believed that puberty can hold off until long after I receive my driver's licenses. While other boy's brains are pumping out copious amounts of hormones, I was being pulled over three times a week for driving while looking twelve. All of this made my sophomore year of high school less than euphoric. My classmates were spending locker room time checking their pectoral outgrowth, and I was caulking and stapling my towel around my body. This can lead to bullying, unless you have the tools to never let any situation of conflict progress to that stage. This book is a wonderful tool. People don't realize that teaching your children to have a thick skin and a real sense of humor about themselves and others is a powerful vaccine against a lifetime of hurt and anxiety. It's never good to be mean. It's never good to try and hurt someone emotionally, but what a great start if it's not possible to be hurt that way. What a great way to start to help others when you can see past the drama, past the surface level pettiness, and know that no words will change you. With great humor and incredible storytelling, I'll Be in the Locker: Zen and the Art of Empathy will make you laugh, think, and maybe even throw a fist of triumph in the air. This book also has the perfect prose stories for any forensic speech team from grades 6-12. Plus, can be adapted as a play or monologue. High Schools will find that reading I'll Be in the Locker: Zen and the Art of Empathy will help open up discussions on not only bullying and empathy, but maturity and the use of humor.