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Reluctantly leaving behind Pop Tarts and pop culture to battle flying rats, hissing cobras, forest fires, and decomposing corpses, Faith Adiele shows readers in this personal narrative, with accompanying journal entries, that the path to faith is full of conflicts for even the most devout. Residing in a forest temple, she endured nineteen-hour daily meditations, living on a single daily meal, and days without speaking. Internally Adiele battled against loneliness, fear, hunger, sexual desire, resistance to the Buddhist worldview, and her own rebellious Western ego. Adiele demystifies Eastern philosophy and demonstrates the value of developing any practice—Buddhist or not. This "unlikely, bedraggled nun" moves grudgingly into faith, learning to meditate for seventy-two hours at a stretch. Her witty, defiant twist on the standard coming-of-age tale suggests that we each hold the key to overcoming anger, fear, and addiction; accepting family; redefining success; and re-creating community and quality of life in today's world.… (más)
Stimulating is the best way to describe this book. In addition to the factual information about the Buddhist faith that Adiele provides, readers are given a narrative of her spiritual journey, as well. Adiele is a relatable narrator with whom the reader can relate, no matter one's background, social situation, or faith. Her self-discovery mirrors the desire to reveal what is innately human in all of us; in immersing herself in a completely foreign culture, Faith Adiele identifies those things. ( )
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Ordination signifies death and rebirth for the candidate. He gives up family and friends, all former association, leaves off his old clothes, is shaved and ritually bathed, and finally receives a new name. -- Robert C. Lester, Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia (chapter one)
An act of meditation is actually an act of faith -- of faith in your spirit, in your won potential. Faith is the basis of meditation. Not of faith in something outside you -- a metaphysical Buddha, an unattainable ideal, or someone else's words. The faith is in yourself, in your own "Buddha-nature." You too can be a Buddha, an awakened being that lives and responds in a wise, creative, and compassionate way. -- Martine Batchelor, Meditation for Life (chapter two)
There is no longer anything or anyone to lean on. Essentially the ordained life means relying on the inner experience of the teachings without external props ... Western people who have been raised to function independently may find it easier to adjust to such a life ... [their] problems ... more often relate to discipline, emotional conflicts, and physical circumstances. -- Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Sakyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha (chapter three)
If I told my friends and colleagues that I was not only attending, the reporter secretly taking notes in the men's room, but buying into [a Buddhist retreat], feeling real spiritual change, I would probably find myself dropped from a number of invitation lists. -- Dinty W. Moore, The Accidental Buddhist (chapter four)
[Bangkok's] two most common and appealing sights ... were its holy men, in spotless saffron robes, and its scarlet ladies, by day, the monks evoke a vision of purity ... by nigh, the whole grimy city felt ... transformed as sequined girls sang the body electric. At least, so I thought, this day-and-night division would ensure that good was good, and evil evil, and never the twain should meet. -- Pico Iyer, Video Night in Kathmandu
(chapter five)
Thailand has over a quarter of a million monks and twice as many prostitutes. -- Rudolph Wurlitzer, Hard Travel to Sacred Places (chapter five)
I should have told [my Tibetan Buddhist teacher] the truth when he'd first asked; should have blurted out that I suffered; that I was often frustrated and angry; that slavery and its legacy or racism had taken their tolls on me; I had come seeking help in coping with feelings of inadequacy, unworthiness, and shame. -- Jan Willis, Dreaming Me: An African American Woman's Spiritual Journey (chapter six)
Human existence is one of mixed pleasure and pain. Below man, in descending order and increasing pain of punishment, are the demons, the [spirits of the dead undergoing punishment], the animals, and the inhabitants of the Hells. ... Men who live dominated by anger, hate, and violence will be punished in the Hells. -- Robert C. Lester, Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia (chapter seven)
Anyone, according to Thai folk custom, can lose their [sic] khwan [life spirit]. It happens when some great shock occurs to the psyche, such as a death or a betrayal of one's integrity, that puts a dent in your immune system or the center of your being .... In the West it's called depression or melancholia. -- Rudolph Wurlitzer, Hard Travel to Sacred Places (chapter eight)
Satipatthana Vipassana is firmly rooted in personal experience, particularly since the first stage of the practice is the detection of the material and mental processes that comprise an individual's conditioned personality. -- Nyanaponika Thera, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation (chapter nine)
Meditation is not something to be toyed with ....It should always be approached ... with the guidance of an experienced and qualified teacher. -- John Snelling, < a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/163089">The Buddhist Handbook (chapter ten)
"In the forest," said the Ajahn, "You do not learn from books and scriptures. You learn from nature and from the necessities of life. The forest is not only the temple, it is also the teacher." -- Charles Nicholl, Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma (chapter ten)
I am attached to escape, to the illusions of "the road" as well as to the barest "no exit" cul-de-sac. I am attached to studying Dharma and forgetting Dharma, and above all I am attached to my suffering, which is so inextricably wound up with pleasure and compensation....I am only a toruist on that broad avenue Lord Budhha referred to as the "middle way." -- Rudolph Wurlitzer, Hard Travel to Sacred Places (chapter eleven)
Faith is an act of the whole person, of mind, will, and heart. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man is Not Alone (chapter twelve)
Realization of the desires that govern action allows these desires to cycle and cease; either ignoring or judging desires leads to action without consciousness, which is subject to kilesa (defilements, impurities, passions). -- Nyanaponika Thera, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation (chapter thirteen)
Nagas were believed to inhabit aquatic paradises, namely the depths of rivers, lakes, and oceans....[t]hese serpentlike beings were also the protectors of the source of life, symbolized ... by their self-rejuvenation, illustrated in the shedding and replacement of [snakeskin]. They were viewed ambivalently a equally destructive and beneficial. -- Diana Y. Paul, Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in the Mahayana Tradition (chapter fourteen)
From the moment of entering the sangha to the time of leaving it, the individual acts and it treated in a manner appropriate to that status. -- Thomas Kirsch, "Buddhism, Sex Roles and the Thai Economy" in Women of Southeast Asia, Penny Van Esterik, ed. (chapter sixteen)
The monasteries are always open to anyone who wants to retire there, either permanently or temporarily. -- Phra Rajavaramuni, Thai Buddhism in the Buddhist World (chapter sixteen)
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land. -- Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (chapter seventeen)
Meditation is not just an occupation taken ... for several hours each day. It is a whole way of life or, more correctly, a way of being. Once one gets into it, it tends to take over, to change and to transform. Anybody starting it had better sit down and count the cost like the sensible man who wants to build a tower. -- William Johnston, Silent Music: The Science of Meditation (chapter eighteen)
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for Annie Phillips Slabach
&
Adanna Grace Adiele
&
Holly Joanne Hanson Adiele
the three who taught me faith
Primeras palabras
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Despite the name Faith, I'm an unlikely candidate for spiritual aspiration. -- from the Preface
January 26.
Citas
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It all seems terribly futile, but then again, this must be the part of the road that's warmest to a dog -- the middle.
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It's a good question and I honestly consider it, What am I? long after I've dropped the charges against our red-eyed thief and waved good-by to his wife and neighbors, long after I've thanked everyone for my gifts and dropped Chong at home, long after I've driven my red motor scooter back over the silent Mekong, past the sleeping train station and now empty Riverside Tea House, through dark groves of banana and coconut palms, to my strangely soft be. -- from the Epilogue
Reluctantly leaving behind Pop Tarts and pop culture to battle flying rats, hissing cobras, forest fires, and decomposing corpses, Faith Adiele shows readers in this personal narrative, with accompanying journal entries, that the path to faith is full of conflicts for even the most devout. Residing in a forest temple, she endured nineteen-hour daily meditations, living on a single daily meal, and days without speaking. Internally Adiele battled against loneliness, fear, hunger, sexual desire, resistance to the Buddhist worldview, and her own rebellious Western ego. Adiele demystifies Eastern philosophy and demonstrates the value of developing any practice—Buddhist or not. This "unlikely, bedraggled nun" moves grudgingly into faith, learning to meditate for seventy-two hours at a stretch. Her witty, defiant twist on the standard coming-of-age tale suggests that we each hold the key to overcoming anger, fear, and addiction; accepting family; redefining success; and re-creating community and quality of life in today's world.
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