List Books » That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist
Authors: Sylvia Boorstein, Sharon Lebell, Stephen Mitchell
ISBN-13: 9780060609580, ISBN-10: 0060609583
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: February 1998
Edition: Reprint
Sylvia Boorstein, teaches mindfulness and leads retreats across the United States. She is a co-founding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, and a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, Massachusetts. Boorstein is also a practicing psychotherapist. Her previous books are It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness and Don't Just Do Something, Sit There. She lives with her husband, Seymour Boorstein, a psychiatrist. They have two sons, two daughters, and five grandchildren.
In this landmark book, esteemed Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein addresses this incisive question in a warm, delightful and personal way. With the same down-to-earth charm and wit that have endeared her to her many students and readers, Boorstein shows how one can be both an observant Jew and a passionately committed Buddhist.
Preface | ||
Foreword | ||
First Page | 1 | |
One More River | 2 | |
I Am a Jew and I Am a Buddhist | 5 | |
An Early Introduction to Buddhism | 13 | |
Good Karma | 15 | |
"So, What's a Nice Jewish Girl Like You... ?" | 17 | |
Basic Dharma | 21 | |
All Attachments Cause Suffering | 25 | |
More Profound Is Not the Point | 28 | |
Another Attachment Story | 30 | |
The Possibility of Peace | 34 | |
Silence Is a Fence for Wisdom | 37 | |
A Renewed Jew | 41 | |
Not Quite Beyond Words | 52 | |
Emptiness | 57 | |
Karma Is True | 60 | |
Permission and Inspiration | 67 | |
Torah All Around | 72 | |
Psalm 121 | 77 | |
Hineyni | 80 | |
Serve God with Joy | 82 | |
Abounding Love | 86 | |
An Alternative, Almost Wordless, Liturgy | 89 | |
Prayer | 91 | |
Liturgical Optimism | 108 | |
Serve God with Sorrow | 111 | |
Holocaust | 114 | |
V'ahavta - Metta Practice | 128 | |
Compassion Is Compassion | 132 | |
The Great Way Is Not Difficult | 137 | |
A Biet Knesset Is Not Supposed to Be a Zendo | 140 | |
Jewish in Jerusalem | 149 | |
Dinner Party in Jerusalem | 152 | |
Lineage | 161 | |
This Is How American Buddhism Looks | 163 | |
Last Page | 166 | |
Acknowledgments | 169 |