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Hidden Spring, with wisdom, honesty and charm, demonstrates how Buddhist meditation and practice can help us cope with the ordeal of life-threatening disease. It vividly evokes the healing journey of Sandy Boucher in her year-long encounter with cancer. Sandy, a meditator with twenty years' experience, details her response to Stage III colon cancer, surgery and chemotherapy. Hidden Spring has been translated into Korean, Chinese, French, and German. (Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2000. paper, $16.95) |
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** Read a chapter now! Download the Portable Document Format (PDF) file (64 kb). For help, go to end of page. Available at your local bookstore and at amazon.com. “This is an intimate, wise and inspiring book.” -- Joan Halifax, author and Buddhist teacher In poignantly realized scenes, Sandy shows how her meditation training and understanding of Buddhist principles allowed her to meet the mental and physical suffering of her life-threatening illness. Important in this account is the story of her training with her colorfully eccentric and powerful teacher Ruth Denison of Dhamma Dena Meditation Center, and her use of the body-centered meditation practices taught there. The book presents and describes meditation techniques as taught by Ruth Denison, assuming no prior knowledge in the reader, and gives examples of how the author's Buddhist training allowed her to move with grace through her surgery and chemotherapy treatments. Hidden Spring integrates meditation and Buddhist training with the daily-life challenges of the gravely ill and their caretakers. It is both a personal account of the development of a Western female Buddhist meditator, a tale of the human spirit in a struggle with mortality, and a guide for readers hoping to find strength and comfort. Excerpts have been published in tricycle (Spring 1999) and Shambhala Sun (Summer 1999). Downloading PDFs: Portable Document Format (PDF) files are used widely on the Web to make documents accessible to any type of computer. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDFs. Acrobat Reader and downloading instructions are available free from the Adobe site. Clicking the link to Chapter 11 of Hidden Spring will bring the PDF file to your browser. When it appears, read it there or save it to your hard drive for later. |
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