The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life

The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life

From beloved writing teacher and author of the best-selling Writing Down the Bones: a treasury of personal stories reflecting a life filled with journeysâ€”inner and outerâ€”zigzagging around the world and home again.

Here, Natalie Goldberg, "a writer both energized and enlightened" (Julia Cameron), shares those vivid moments that have wakened her to new ways of being. We follow alongside her mapless meanderings in the New Mexican desert and her pilgrimages to Bob Dylan's birthplace and to Larry McMurtry's dusty Texas ghost town of rare books. We feel her deep hunger while she sits zazen in a monastery in Japan, and her profound loss when she hears of the passing of a dear friend while teaching in the French countryside.

Through it all, she remains grounded in a life informed by two constants: the practices of writing and of Zen. With humor and insight, Natalie encircles around the essential questions these paths compel her toward: Where does this life lead? Who are we?

This is a book to be relished one awakening at a time. Each story is a reminder that no matter how hard the situation or desolate you may feel, spring will come again, breaking through a cold winter, bringing early yellow forsythia flowers. And the Great Spring of enlightenmentâ€”that sudden rush of acceptance, pain cracking open, obstructions shatteringâ€”will also burst forth.
Country USA
Manufacturer Shambhala
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-02-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Shambhala
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-02-02
Format	Kindle eBook

The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life

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