EBOOK
About
Half Asleep in the Buddha Hall is a light-hearted guide to living life fully and deeply.
Using Zen stories old and new, illustrations and exercises, Wayne C. Allen takes you on a walk through the workings of your mind, heart, and soul. For those who love Eastern thought, and equally for those who are fearless explorers of their internal space, Half Asleep in the Buddha Hall is an eye-opening jaunt through the ages-while always bringing you into direct contact with yourself-in this moment.
(from the conclusion of Half Asleep in the Buddha Hall)
"My wish for you is simple (naturally!) I want you to find yourself, by losing your self-your attachment to identity, to independent self, to clinging to your memories and to your aspirations. As you drop these attachments, as all of it falls away, all that is left is a spaciousness pretty much the size of the universe.
In this spaciousness of the eternal Now, each of us sees everything, fully and deeply. We sit in the middle-of ourselves, and get the joke. There is no place to go, and nothing left to learn. There is nothing to do-as all there is, is Now."
Using Zen stories old and new, illustrations and exercises, Wayne C. Allen takes you on a walk through the workings of your mind, heart, and soul. For those who love Eastern thought, and equally for those who are fearless explorers of their internal space, Half Asleep in the Buddha Hall is an eye-opening jaunt through the ages-while always bringing you into direct contact with yourself-in this moment.
(from the conclusion of Half Asleep in the Buddha Hall)
"My wish for you is simple (naturally!) I want you to find yourself, by losing your self-your attachment to identity, to independent self, to clinging to your memories and to your aspirations. As you drop these attachments, as all of it falls away, all that is left is a spaciousness pretty much the size of the universe.
In this spaciousness of the eternal Now, each of us sees everything, fully and deeply. We sit in the middle-of ourselves, and get the joke. There is no place to go, and nothing left to learn. There is nothing to do-as all there is, is Now."