Language of Flowers in the Time of COVID
Finding Solace in Zen, Nature and Ikebana
Erschienen am 26. Mai 2023
152 Seiten
978-1-80341-191-0 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
In 2020, as COVID-19 spread from Asia to North America, Zen Buddhist and ikebana practitioner Joan Stamm was forced to cancel her long-anticipated trip to Japan, where she had planned to research a flower temple pilgrimage and learn the deeper meaning of flowers known as "little Buddhas". But with lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, Stamm, who lives on a mountain on an island in the Salish Sea, sequestered herself like a hermit and turned to her own flower garden for solace and meaning as the pandemic engulfed the world around her. The Language of Flowers in the Time of COVID tells the story of Stamm's life and spiritual journey through these difficult times. Using traditional Japanese flowers as seasonal indicators, Stamm speaks the poetic language of flowers to explore ancient flower metaphor as it relates to the pandemic and the many manifestations of impermanence in one of the most tumultuous years in American history.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
When the onset of the pandemic upends cherished plans for a flower temple pilgrimage in Japan, Stamm combines her knowledge of flower symbolism and Buddhist teachings to navigate a year of global loss, anxiety, disappointment, despair, and unrest - all through the wisdom of flowers. Deeply informed and insightful, this book relates the spiritual pilgrimage nearly all of us took courtesy of COVID, a journey into a great and fearsome unknown. -- Karen Maezen Miller, author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen GardenWeitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Collective Ink
Dateigröße
7,17 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-80341-191-0 (9781803411910)
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Person
Joan D. Stamm is the author of A Pilgrimage in Japan: the 33 Temples of Kannon, and the award winning Heaven and Earth are Flowers: Reflections on Ikebana and Buddhism. She is co-founder of Cold Mountain Hermitage, a Zen Buddhist study and practice group, and a certified teacher of the Saga School of Ikebana. https://joandstamm.com/. She lives in Eastsound, Washington.
Inhalt
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Plum in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 2 Daffodil in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 3 Cherry Blossom in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 4 Kerria in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 5 Rhododendron-Azalea in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 6 Wisteria in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 7 Peony in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 8 Iris in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 9 Hydrangea in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 10 Lotus in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 11 Cosmos in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 12 Chrysanthemum in the Time of COVID
- Chapter 13 Camellia in the Time of COVID
- Epilogue
- References
- About the Author
- Back Cover
