Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
Autor(a) de The Power of an Open Question: The Buddha's Path to Freedom
About the Author
Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel has studied and practiced the buddha-dharma for more than thirty years under the guidance of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, whose books she has edited. Retreat master at Longchen Jigme Samten Ling in southern Colorado, she teaches extensively throughout the United States and mostrar mais Europe. She is also the author of The Power of an Open Question: The Buddha's Path to Freedom. mostrar menos
Obras por Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
The Logic of Faith: A Buddhist Approach to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt (2018) 24 exemplares
Associated Works
Light Comes Through: Buddhist Teachings on Awakening to Our Natural Intelligence (2008) — Editor — 71 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1961
- Sexo
- female
- Local de nascimento
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Santa Monica, California, USA
Nepal
Colorado, USA - Ocupações
- teacher (Tibetan Buddhism)
translator - Relações
- Kongtrul, Dzigar (spouse)
- Organizações
- Longchen Jigme Samten Ling Retreat Center, Southern Colorado, USA
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel grew up as the daughter of a communist record manager in Santa Monica, yet amid the anarchistic debates at home, she was eaten up by a yearning question: "What should I do with my life?" A vivid dream during her college years inspired her to travel to Nepal where she met her teacher and husband, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. She became his first Western student. Under his guidance she has studied and practiced Buddhism for more than 25 years. She has been intimately involved with Rinpoche’s work in bringing Buddhist wisdom to the West and is the author of The Power of an Open Question. She spent seven years in solitary retreat in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado while raising her son at the same time. She seems to effortlessly juggle her many commitments as a retreat master, teacher, author, mother, and student, and speaks openly about the challenges of implementing Buddhist practices in a modern world. "It is like an unspoken rule that we don't talk about our doubts or unresolved questions," she says, "and I question that."
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The Logic of Faith: A Buddhist Approach to Finding… por Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
The Logic of Faith is an in-depth exploration of a logic called Madhyamaka in which Buddhist practitioners are asked to look for singular discrete entities—including the self—and not find them as a way to become comfortable with our state, which is one of interdependence, and to increase our ability to bear the uncertainty of life with grace. I am particularly touched by Elizabeth's teachings, which are personal and universal, full of awe for the wisdom offered by Buddhist insights. This book clarifies an intricate and essential element of Buddhist thinking.… (mais)
This is a short simple sketch of the core Buddhist concept of emptiness. OK, emptiness isn't so much a concept as an insight into what concepts are and how best to work with them. But to make a book, the insight has to be frozen into concepts.
Mattis-Namgyel does a good job helping the reader develop this insight at an introductory level. So much of the traditional discussions of emptiness plunge immediately to such esoteric depth that the core insight remains out of reach. In the Tibetan tradition, this usually takes the form of a catalog of progressively subtler ways of working with concepts, pointing out their errors and even pointing out errors in the various ways those errors might be pointed out. The Far Eastern Zen method is much more immediate, indeed a kind of catalog of ways to conceptualize freedom from concepts, through self-erasing expressions.
In this book, the author doesn't shy from using coarse concepts like faith and wonder without going deeply into subtle analysis of how these words have been or might be used and mis-used. This is very much an introductory book. I think it is a little dangerous because it doesn't really engage in self-questioning. True, it is that self-questioning that makes so many traditional presentations annoyingly esoteric. But some readers might get the idea that child-like wonder is really the goal, and miss the tenacious precision that is required to uproot our deep habits. Then again, other readers might come with some hint of the potential profundity of the subject, and be disappointed by the lack of depth here, or really by the lack of any solid indications of the depth.
This is really a fine introductory book. It should be easy to read for anyway with just the slightest prior knowledge of Buddhism. It gives a good flavor of what emptiness is about. There is no way an introductory book can survey the depth and width of such an oceanic topic. I wish, though, that the reader here could have been given just a few more hints about that scope - the subtleties involved in using concepts to free ourselves from concepts, and the rich history of exploration of this territory.… (mais)
Mattis-Namgyel does a good job helping the reader develop this insight at an introductory level. So much of the traditional discussions of emptiness plunge immediately to such esoteric depth that the core insight remains out of reach. In the Tibetan tradition, this usually takes the form of a catalog of progressively subtler ways of working with concepts, pointing out their errors and even pointing out errors in the various ways those errors might be pointed out. The Far Eastern Zen method is much more immediate, indeed a kind of catalog of ways to conceptualize freedom from concepts, through self-erasing expressions.
In this book, the author doesn't shy from using coarse concepts like faith and wonder without going deeply into subtle analysis of how these words have been or might be used and mis-used. This is very much an introductory book. I think it is a little dangerous because it doesn't really engage in self-questioning. True, it is that self-questioning that makes so many traditional presentations annoyingly esoteric. But some readers might get the idea that child-like wonder is really the goal, and miss the tenacious precision that is required to uproot our deep habits. Then again, other readers might come with some hint of the potential profundity of the subject, and be disappointed by the lack of depth here, or really by the lack of any solid indications of the depth.
This is really a fine introductory book. It should be easy to read for anyway with just the slightest prior knowledge of Buddhism. It gives a good flavor of what emptiness is about. There is no way an introductory book can survey the depth and width of such an oceanic topic. I wish, though, that the reader here could have been given just a few more hints about that scope - the subtleties involved in using concepts to free ourselves from concepts, and the rich history of exploration of this territory.… (mais)
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