Red Thread Zen

Humanly Entangled in Emptiness

Susan Murphy

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Counterpoint
11 October 2016

Philosophy; Psychology

Love, attachment, the passions, gender, carnality, birth, bodily being, mortality, belonging, suffering, hope, despair, personhood, imagination, vitality, the struggle to be fully human - how do these things dwell wholly in emptiness, how do we reconcile their vivid life with 'no-thingness'?

The red (or 'vermilion') thread originally connoted the color of the silk undergarments courtesans were obliged to wear.

Most spiritual traditions do their best to distance themselves as thoroughly as possible from such direct and intimate contact with the fact of impassioned human bodily being, if not to declare open war upon the flesh, and the female body that most plainly bears flesh into the world.

Spirituality has trouble dealing with the fact that we arrive here covered in blood.

But the red thread can never be cut. Why not?

Why would no perfectly accomplished saint ever even dream of cutting it?

Red Thread Zen will set out to explore every corner of the magnificent koan of being 'still attached to the red thread, or 'line of tears'. This is an argument against the bloodless and socially disengaged form of 'Buddhism' that is generally being gestated in the West, one that shades too readily into the blandest of bland self-help.

By: Susan Murphy
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 213g
ISBN: 9781619027831
ISBN 10: 1619027836
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 11 October 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Susan Murphy is the founding teacher of Zen Open Circle in Sydney, Australia and leads Sesshin training in Sydney and Melbourne. She is also a filmmaker and producer. Her first book was Upside-Down Zen, Finding the Marvelous in the Ordinary. She was authorized to teach by Ross Bolleter and John Tarrant, both dharma heirs to Robert Aitken of the Diamond Sangha branch of the Harada-Yasutani lineage.

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Red Thread Zen

Humanly Entangled in Emptiness

Susan Murphy

$34.99

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