{"product_id":"the-little-book-of-zen-healingisbn-9781645471509","title":"The Little Book of Zen Healing","description":"\u003cb\u003eAccessible and adaptable Japanese Buddhist rituals to infuse your life with purpose, healing, and gratitude when you need it most.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do we make and sustain meaning amidst the messy conditions of daily life? Personalized rituals can help us blossom like lotuses right in the mud of the present. On a pilgrimage she began after her mother’s death, author Paula Arai encountered numerous Japanese Buddhists who taught her the remarkable power of ritual to heal—practices you can adapt to your own cultural and personal circumstances. Applying principles of Zen practice, she offers stories and insights that illuminate how to nourish and reap a healing bounty of connection, joy, and compassion. Examples include how to:  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e Relate to a late loved one as a “personal Buddha” who supports you  \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e Create a home altar to serve as a safe space to be vulnerable, face intense emotions, and experience a depth of warm gratitude that melts fear and anger  \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e Engage in daily tasks with attentiveness, intention, and creativity such that they become opportunities for body-mind integration  \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eDevelop family rituals to celebrate relationship and mark transition  \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eApproach illness and grief with a purposeful sense of connection to life-and-death in its wholeness  \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Marie Kondo's Shinto principles for decluttering, Paula Arai uses rituals influenced by Japanese Zen for personal and relational nourishment and spiritual healing.“This exquisite book is medicine for our time. It is a book that you will return to, again and again, for the profundity of its wisdom and practicality of its path.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJoan Halifax\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBeing with Dying \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStanding at the Edge\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Intimate, honest, revealing, caring—listening and learning to heal. This is a book of revolutionary wisdom.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eKazuaki Tanahashi\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eZen Chants\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Little Book of Zen Healing \u003c\/i\u003eis a gift. In it, Paula Arai distills the wisdom, kindness, and care of our women ancestors into small yet empowering rituals we can practice in our lives to heal ourselves and those we love.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRuth Ozeki\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Form and Emptiness\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Paula Arai has spent years, actually lifetimes, learning attentively from a generation of elderly Japanese women whose daily, hourly Zen practices infuse their lives and the lives of their families with quiet, invisible beauty, prayer, and awareness, imbuing small gestures with peace, equilibrium, and subtle, penetrating healing power. This book is alive with deep understanding, light, transformation, and secret joy.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePeter Sellars\u003c\/b\u003e, opera, theater, film and festival director\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “After decades of important ethnographic study and spiritual practice in Japan, Paula Arai here presents us with a beautiful expression of the path of healing that has been the through-line of her life. To many, Zen means austere meditation and paradoxical sayings, but in this lovely book, full of brilliant stories and simple practices, Arai shows us that, more than this, Zen is a way of profound healing, and of beauty and harmony. I have long valued the ritual side of Zen practice, which Arai beautifully extends and develops. \u003ci\u003eThe Little Book of Zen Healing\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book for Zen students . . . and everyone else.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNorman Fischer\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Arai’s words inform us that healing occurs in the small silences and activities of our personal daily lives. She reminds us that it is not always necessary to enact rituals of religion in an effort to change. If we see life as a cosmic ceremony, then mindful attention to the everyday rituals of life has the potential to transform our personal and collective experiences of suffering. This book is a gift!”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eZenju Earthlyn Manuel\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shamanic Bones of Zen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Deepest Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Paula Arai offers a tenfold Zen path to healing. A map to appreciating life and death just as it is. Enduring and timely rituals to alleviate our suffering.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDuncan Ryūken Williams\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This book is warming rays and quenching rain, fragrant tea and wholesome meal, shimmering brocade and hardworking \u003ci\u003etenugui \u003c\/i\u003ecloth. Crafted with utmost care, it perfects the art of giving all that is beautiful, practical, and protective. ‘Daily life is brimming with possibilities to enact healing rituals,’ Dr. Arai writes. The dancing words in these pages show us how, inviting us into a lineage of time-hewn wisdom and limitless love.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eChenxing Han\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBe the Refuge \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eone long listening\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Buddhist scholar and author Paula Arai’s \u003ci\u003eThe Little Book of Zen Healing\u003c\/i\u003e gently reorients the reader from the potential chaos of a difficult life, season, or task, to making meaning with the whole body-heart-mind. Whether our circumstances are mundane or tumultuous, Arai writes, ritual can be driven by thoughtful intent and engaging deepest love.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLion’s Roar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With deep reverence for the spirit of beauty and ritual practice, these personal reflections offer an adaptable road map on how to integrate grief into the quiet grooves of daily life.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTricycle: The Buddhist Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ePAULA ARAI was raised in Detroit by a Japanese mother and did Zen training in Japan. She obtained her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University in 1993 and is now the Eshinni \u0026amp; Kakushinni Professor of Women and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWomen Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePainting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Shambhala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304335036645,"sku":"NP9781645471509","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781645471509_933f6b78-4d73-40ac-a780-40e2064147f2.jpg?v=1730757001","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-little-book-of-zen-healingisbn-9781645471509","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}