The Little Book of Zen Healing
By Paula Arai
- 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
- Engage in daily tasks with attentiveness, intention, and creativity such that they become opportunities for body-mind integration
- Develop family rituals to celebrate relationship and mark transition
- Approach illness and grief with a purposeful sense of connection to life-and-death in its wholeness
"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." —Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
"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." —Joan Halifax, author of Being with Dying and Standing at the Edge
"This book is warming rays and quenching rain, fragrant tea and a wholesome meal, shimmering brocade and hardworking tenugui cloth. 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." —Chenxing Han, author of Be the Refuge and one long listening
"The Little Book of Zen Healing is 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." —Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Empitness
"This book is alive with deep understanding, light, transformation, and secret joy." —Peter Sellars, opera, theater, film, and festival director