Being Bodies

by FRIEDMAN, LENORE

• ISBN13: 9781570623240
• ISBN10: 1570623244
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

The relationship between body and mind has always been a topic of speculation and spirited discussion. The authors of the pieces contained in this anthology address the problem from the unique dual perspective of being women and being students of Buddhism.

Author Biography

Lenore Friedman is a psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley, California. She has been interested in Buddhism since the late 1950s and has practiced Buddhist meditation since the late 1960s.Susan Moon is the editor of Turning Wheel: The Journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. She is the author of The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi and coeditor, with Lenore Friedman, of Being Bodies: Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(4)
Introduction	xi
Part One: Body as Suffering	3	(50)
JOAN ITEN SUTHERLAND
Body of Radiant Knots	3	(7)
DARLENE COHEN
The Only Way I Know of to Alleviate Suffering	10	(8)
JOAN TOLLIFSON
Enjoying the Perfection of Imperfection	18	(7)
BARBARA GATES
A Mama Raccoon in the Net of Indra	25	(10)
BARBARA BRODSKY
No Eye, Ear, Nose	35	(8)
KATHERINE THANAS
Hearing the Voice of the Body	43	(5)
NAOMI NEWMAN
About Death	48	(5)
Part Two: Body as Nature	53	(34)
KUYA MINOGUE
Running the Bush	53	(6)
LINDA CHRISMAN
Birth	59	(6)
CONNIE BATTEN
Midlife Sacrament	65	(6)
LENORE FRIEDMAN
Aging as a Russian Doll	71	(7)
HELENA NORBERG-HODGE
Our Body and Our Economy	78	(9)
Part Three: Body as Gender	87	(38)
FRAN TRIBE
Piecing Together a Life	87	(8)
RITA M. GROSS
Anger and Meditation	95	(8)
LINDA RUTH CUTTS
Breaking through the Concrete	103	(7)
JISHO WARNER
What Do Lesbians Do in the Daytime?	110	(5)
MAYLIE SCOTT
Celibate	115	(10)
Part Four: Body as Vehicle	125	(46)
BOBBY RHODES
Bowing to the Great Mirror	125	(3)
RUTH ZAPORAH
Dance: A Body with a Mind of Its Own	128	(5)
PHYLLIS PAY
Meeting Vajrayogini	133	(6)
ANNE C. KLEIN
Grounding and Opening	139	(9)
CASEY HAYDEN
Body on the Line	148	(5)
MICHELE MARTIN
On the Other Side of Attachment	153	(10)
PEMA CHODRON
Three Methods for Working with Chaos	163	(8)
Part Five: Body as Self	171	(64)
JAN CHOZEN BAYS
Embodiment	171	(2)
MICHELE MCDONALD-SMITH
Of Mud and Broken Windows	173	(5)
TONI PACKER
LENORE FRIEDMAN
Tracking the Two Bodies	178	(7)
CHINA GALLAND
The Formless Form: Buddhism and the Community of Recovery	185	(12)
LINDA HESS
Craving	197	(10)
FURYU NANCY SCHROEDER
GRACE DAMMANN
A Conduit for Love: Adopting a Positive Daughter	207	(9)
JULIE HENDERSON
Tulku	216	(7)
SUSAN MOON
The Lonely Body	223	(7)
CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK
Our Substitute Life	230	(5)
About the Contributors	235	(6)
Credits	241