Wild Awake
Alone, Offline and Aware in Nature
Published on 23. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-911407-18-8 (ISBN)
Description
What is it like to be completely alone, attempting to face your experience with only nature for company? Buddhist teacher and author, Vajragupta, has been doing just that every year for twenty-five years. Here he recounts how these `solitary retreats' have changed him, how he fell in love with the places he stayed in and the creatures there. He reflects on how the outer world and his inner world began to speak more deeply to each other, and how there were moments when the barrier between them seemed to dissolve away.
Also includes an `A-to-Z' guide of how to do your own solitary retreat.
Also includes an `A-to-Z' guide of how to do your own solitary retreat.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
474 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-911407-18-8 (9781911407188)
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Person
Vajragupta was director of the Birmingham Buddhist Centre from 1997 to 2005, and still teaches Buddhism and meditation at classes and retreats across the Midlands. He was Director of the Triratna Development Team from 2006 to 2013. These days he is living and working at Adhisthana, a retreat centre in Herefordshire, UK.
He is author of Buddhism: Tools for Living Your Life (2007), The Triratna Story: Behind the Scenes of a New Buddhist Movement (2010) and Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Way Through the Ups and Downs of Life (2011), all published by Windhorse Publications.
He is author of Buddhism: Tools for Living Your Life (2007), The Triratna Story: Behind the Scenes of a New Buddhist Movement (2010) and Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Way Through the Ups and Downs of Life (2011), all published by Windhorse Publications.
Content
Acknowledgements xi
Publisher's acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
1 The gaze of the sea 3
2 The secret valley 19
3 Mind is more fleet than the feet 33
4 Through the green gate 49
5 A murder of crows 65
6 A night on Hawk Hill 81
7 Solitary together 93
8 'World is crazier and more of it than we think' 105
9 Green fire 127
10 The return journey 139
Appendix 1
An A-to-Z guide to solitary retreats 151
Appendix 2
Two ritual texts for being alone and aware in nature 183
Notes 187
Publisher's acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
1 The gaze of the sea 3
2 The secret valley 19
3 Mind is more fleet than the feet 33
4 Through the green gate 49
5 A murder of crows 65
6 A night on Hawk Hill 81
7 Solitary together 93
8 'World is crazier and more of it than we think' 105
9 Green fire 127
10 The return journey 139
Appendix 1
An A-to-Z guide to solitary retreats 151
Appendix 2
Two ritual texts for being alone and aware in nature 183
Notes 187