Oh yes!
Dick Verstegen
From looking to seeing
Publisher: Asoka
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(moved to) January 27, 2021 from 20:00 to 20:45
Description
Learning to see things as they are, that's what it's all about! The vision in this book flows from the pen of a seasoned Zen teacher. He describes how our life is just a series of experiences that we can see and experience thanks to our consciousness: the One Spirit. From this awareness we can have a clear awareness of what is going on, moment to moment.
We perceive that we are permanently balancing on the interface between our relative existence and our innate sense of unity. If you look at yourself and the world with a 'unified eye', a new perspective is created. If we refuse to use that quality, suffering ensues. Seeing and accepting what arises opens your perception and creates confidence in the compass of your heart. Exactly as you are. Nothing needs to change.
Content
Content
Foreword by Nico Tydeman Introduction
1. Self-reflective ability: seeing
2. Zoness, reality as it is
3. Seeing the Buddha and Later Teachers
4. Not wanting to see what is creates suffering
5. Samsara or duality, our 'original sin'
6. To really see is to accept, to become free
7. Recognize, acknowledge, as it is, accept, let it be, 'let go'
8. Liberation: accepting your lack of freedom
9. Spirit, unity, light, love…. that's what we are 10. Experience – stick with it. Not it but this!! Oh yeah!
Dick Verstegen
Dick Verstegen (1940) is a Zen teacher and Dharma successor to Nico Tydeman. He is also a personal coach leading Zen Zencentrum Nijmegen from his own broadcasting station.
From 1961 to 2001, he was a newspaper reporter for several Buddhist magazines. Thanks to this, he is still active as a columnist and has previously published with Asoka: Zen, de paring naar nu (2007) and De tocht van het hart (2011).
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