{"product_id":"encouraging-words-robert-aitken-9780679756521","title":"Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students","description":"\u003cb\u003eNominated for the Tricycle Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Buddhism in America--a collection of short talks and essays from a renowned meditation teacher. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The inspiration that guided monks and nuns in ancient times is our own deepest incentive as we establish our practice in a world that desperately needs new forms of kinship and love.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Robert Aitken\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this inspiring collection, you will find a series of talks and essays that Aitken Rashi has offered his students at meditation retreats during the past two decades. They are arranged according to themes central to all spiritual seekers--attention, emptiness, coming and going, diligence, death and the afterlife, the sacred self, and the moral path. Aitken provides guidance on pursuing religious practice in a lay context, \"re-casting the Dharma to include women, jobs, and family.\" He also charts his own quest to develop a set of moral codes in keeping with Buddhism's basic precepts and honoring the enormous ethical challenges faced in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Aitken\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679756523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679756521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.68h x 6.04w x 0.66d","brand":"Robert Aitken","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981090652415,"sku":"9780679756521","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e3377e56-fa40-47e4-abde-04c218bfbc63.jpg?v=1683253605","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/encouraging-words-robert-aitken-9780679756521","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}