
A Fire Runs through All Things
Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis
Susan Murphy(Author)
Shambhala Publications Inc (Publisher)
Published on 28. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-64547-108-0 (ISBN)
Description
"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, Zen teacher Susan Murphy contends that koans can help us enter the mind of not-knowing, from which acceptance and possibility freely emerge. Koans reveal intimate, creative, mythic, artful, playful, provocative, humorous, and fierce ways to engage the work and art of protecting and healing ourselves and our world. To see crisis through koans, and as a koan, is to break the frame called "problem" and find instead an original wholeness. In addition to delving deeply into the koan tradition through dozens of traditional koans, this book also illuminates the little-known Zen resonance with the oldest continuous body of indigenous wisdom on earth, summed up in the subtle Australian Aboriginal word Country. Murphy draws from her study and co-teaching with Dulumunmun, Uncle Max Harrison, a distinguished Yuin Elder, to show how this millennia-deep taproot of intelligence confirms the aliveness of the earth and the kinship of all beings"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
332 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64547-108-0 (9781645471080)
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SUSAN MURPHY is an Australian Zen teacher whose passionate feeling of kinship with the natural world began during her early childhood years living near the Great Barrier Reef and the Gondwanaland rainforest. A successful filmmaker, radio producer, and writer, she received dharma transmission from Ross Bolleter and John Tarrant in 2001. She leads regular retreats around Australia and teaches an Australia-wide sangha that extends internationally online. She is the author of Upside-Down Zen; Minding the Earth, Mending the World; and Red Thread Zen.