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The Little Book of Zen Healing

Japanese Rituals for Beauty, Harmony, and Love

By Paula Arai

$18.95
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9781645473916
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Shambhala Publications
02/11/2025
Pages: 208
Size: 5.5 x 7
ISBN: 9781645473916
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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 that anyone can adapt to their own cultural and personal circumstances. Applying principles of Zen practice, she offers stories and insights that illuminate how to reap a healing bounty of connection, joy, and compassion. Examples include how to:
  • 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
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Author Bio
Paula Arai
PAULA ARAI was raised in Detroit by a Japanese mother and did Zen training in Japan. She obtained her PhD in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University in 1993 and is now the Eshinni & Kakushinni Professor of Women and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. She is the author of Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals, Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns, and Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra.
Praise

"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

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