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  • Published: 1 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781590309742
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $32.99
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Most Intimate

A Zen Approach to Life's Challenges



For Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara, intimacy is what Zen practice is all about: the realization of the essential lack of distinction between self and other that inevitably leads to wisdom and compassionate action. She approaches the practice of intimacy beginning at its most basic level--the intimacy with ourselves that is the essential first step. She then shows how to bring intimacy into our relationships with others, starting with those dearest to us and moving on to those who don't seem dear at all. She then shows how to grow in intimacy so that we include everyone around us, all of society, the whole world and all the beings it contains. Each chapter is accompanied by practices she uses with her students at the Village Zendo for manifesting intimacy in our lives.

The joy of intimacy—with yourself, with others, and with the whole universe. The long-awaited first book from a prominent modern American Zen teacher.

For Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, intimacy is what Zen practice is all about: the realization of the essential lack of distinction between self and other that inevitably leads to wisdom and compassionate action. She approaches the practice of intimacy beginning at its most basic level—the intimacy with ourselves that is the essential first step.

She then shows how to bring intimacy into our relationships with others, starting with those dearest to us and moving on to those who don’t seem dear at all. She shows how to grow in intimacy so that we include everyone around us, all of society, the whole world and all the beings it contains. Each chapter is accompanied by practices she uses with her students at the Village Zendo for manifesting intimacy in our lives.

  • Published: 1 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781590309742
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

Praise for Most Intimate

"Roshi Enkyo explores not just regular intimacy, but radical intimacy. She sees it as the ultimate path and realization of liberation. This path she invites us to open is not only about our lives, but about the life of this world in which we are embedded: each other, our work, our society, our earth . . . and all of this is not separate from practice."--Roshi Joan Halifax, from the foreword