One hundred days of solitude : losing myself and finding grace on a Zen retreat

by Jane Dobisz

Paperback, 2008

Publication

Imprint: Boston : Wisdom Publications, c2008. Responsibility: Jane Dobisz. OCLC Number: 169873837. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xvii, 134 pages ; 23 cm. Features: Includes suggested reading.

Call number

Retreat / Dobis

Barcode

BK-07860

ISBN

9780861715381

Collections

Your library, Adult Materials, Contemplative Practices

CSS Library Notes

Description: In One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing My Self and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat, American teacher of Korean Zen Jane Dobisz (Zen Master Bon Yeon), recalls her first solitary meditation stint in the woods. Luckily, this is not just a recounting of a winter's worth of cabin fever. Instead, Dobisz takes us into her cabin, and into her mind, as she tries--at least temporarily--to live a Walden-like existence. All the bowing and meditating and wood-chopping that is part and parcel of her retreat is hardly first nature, but the good-humored and tenacious Dobisz is able to adapt, and to relate her hundred days with moving insight and humanity. Her Solitude in fact offers us all a chance to commune with her and to look inside and rediscover our own grace.

Table of Contents: Introduction
Arriving
Rolling up sleeves
Hard training
Spring cleaning

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Physical description

xvii, 134 p.; 23 cm

Description

In One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing My Self and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat, American teacher of Korean Zen Jane Dobisz (Zen Master Bon Yeon), recalls her first solitary meditation stint in the woods. Luckily, this is not just a recounting of a winter's worth of cabin fever. Instead, Dobisz takes us into her cabin, and into her mind, as she tries--at least temporarily--to live a Walden-like existence. All the bowing and meditating and wood-chopping that is part and parcel of her retreat is hardly first nature, but the good-humored and tenacious Dobisz is able to adapt, and to relate her hundred days with moving insight and humanity. Her Solitude in fact offers us all a chance to commune with her and to look inside and rediscover our own grace.… (more)