Being Prayer -Transforming Consciousness: Good News of Buddhist Practice

By Mary Rees

Being Prayer offers timeless guidance, a clear, simple, yet personal and challenging path for living fully, in harmony and integrity, with things just as they are. It also provides rich resources for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976003678
• ISBN13: 9780976003670
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Nutshell Publications
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.8" x 7.4"

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AN INVITATION

We wake up each day to a world filled with complexity. We are surrounded with a whirling array of choices and circumstances that we must deal with. Mary Rees offers us an invitation to move our consciousness into a place where "we learn to stay with our experience neither running nor fighting." She shows us a variety of ways to achieve this. We get a chance to read about concepts such as "creating a holding", understanding "sense doors" and "dynamic receptivity." Her chapters present a concept, suggest beginning practices, and conclude with recommended reading. In this fashion each one is like a book within itself. And Rees is careful not to overload us. As she says, "Be faithful to your heart's deepest intentions. Revisit them every day and during the day. Let them expand and unfold." With her many years of teaching guiding her, she leads us gently, suggesting we move forward, pause, revisit, and grow, all at our own pace. With appendices that include Prayers of Intention, an overview of the Satipatthana Sutta, and an additional reading list broken down into categories, BEING PRAYER becomes not only a guide to transformation but the type of book that you'll always want close at hand and close to your ever expanding heart.