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That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist » (Reprint)

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Authors: Sylvia Boorstein, Sharon Lebell, Stephen Mitchell
ISBN-13: 9780060609580, ISBN-10: 0060609583
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: February 1998
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Sylvia Boorstein

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Foreword
First Page1
One More River2
I Am a Jew and I Am a Buddhist5
An Early Introduction to Buddhism13
Good Karma15
"So, What's a Nice Jewish Girl Like You... ?"17
Basic Dharma21
All Attachments Cause Suffering25
More Profound Is Not the Point28
Another Attachment Story30
The Possibility of Peace34
Silence Is a Fence for Wisdom37
A Renewed Jew41
Not Quite Beyond Words52
Emptiness57
Karma Is True60
Permission and Inspiration67
Torah All Around72
Psalm 12177
Hineyni80
Serve God with Joy82
Abounding Love86
An Alternative, Almost Wordless, Liturgy89
Prayer91
Liturgical Optimism108
Serve God with Sorrow111
Holocaust114
V'ahavta - Metta Practice128
Compassion Is Compassion132
The Great Way Is Not Difficult137
A Biet Knesset Is Not Supposed to Be a Zendo140
Jewish in Jerusalem149
Dinner Party in Jerusalem152
Lineage161
This Is How American Buddhism Looks163
Last Page166
Acknowledgments169

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