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    612-822-4611

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Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart

Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart

Bradshaw, Rebecca

Paperback

BuddhismMeditation

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 164547321X
ISBN13: 9781645473213
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: Nov 26 2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.14 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
Buddhist teachings and heart-centered practices from the feminine paradigm to embrace receptivity and bring more balance to your life, relationships, and the world.

With deeply thoughtful, lyrical prose, this book invites readers to engage with the world from a unique perspective that encourages feeling, intuitive understanding, embodiment, interdependence, and sacredness. Weaving together classical Theravada Buddhist teachings and mindfulness practices, the book teaches us when and how to channel our receptive and active orientations--sometimes called the feminine and masculine paradigms--to feel more at home in ourselves and the world and drop more deeply into the Buddhist teachings on suffering and happiness.

Rebecca Bradshaw, a respected Buddhist teacher in the Insight Meditation community, offers teachings that are simple yet require us to explore aspects of ourselves that go against much of our social conditioning that values goal-oriented busyness, productivity, independence, outgoing energy, and other active qualities. When overemphasized, this orientation can cause destructive emotions and behaviors, but we can counter them by embracing more receptive qualities. The receptive or feminine paradigm takes us deeper into the heart of the classical Buddhist teachings, leading to openness and freedom of the heart-mind.

Bradshaw illustrates her own resistance to letting go of her strong active orientation with relatable stories, like her efforts to be a perfect meditator. Drawing on our connectedness to nature, she offers guidance for grounded practices, including:

  • useless gazing,
  • getting lost,
  • sense-based reality,
  • practicing in the wildness,
  • accepting uncertainty, and more.

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