Background
Larkin, daughter of a wealthy International Business Machines Corporation executive, left her successful business life as a management consultant to enter a Buddhist seminary for three years, where she was ordained.
(The author of "Stumbling Toward Enlightenment" puts a new...)
The author of "Stumbling Toward Enlightenment" puts a new spin on the principles of entrepreneurship, showing how to use Buddhism to build a business of integrity.
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(A humorous and honest collection of Buddhist wisdom from ...)
A humorous and honest collection of Buddhist wisdom from a Western beginner'Âs perspective. Instead of promising a straight and clear path to enlightenment, author and teacher Geri Larkin shows us that even stumbling along that path can lead to self-discovery and awakening, especially if we prize the journey and not the destination. With candor, affection, and earthy wisdom, Larkin shares her experiences as a beginning and continuing Buddhist. This spirituality classic shows any seeker that it's possible to stumble, smile, and stay Zen through it all.
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( Gardens have often been used as metaphors for spiritual...)
Gardens have often been used as metaphors for spiritual nurturing and growth. Zen rock gardens, monastery rose gardens, even your grandmother's vegetable garden all have been described as places of refuge and reflection. Drawing on her experience working at Seattle's premier gardening center, Zen teacher Geri Larkin shows how the act of gardening can help you uncover your inner creativity, enthusiasm, vigilance, and joy. As your garden grows, so will your spirit. Larkin takes you through the steps of planning, planting, nurturing, and maintaining a garden while offering funny stories and inspiring lessons on what plants can teach us about our lives. As soothing as a bowl of homemade vegetable soup, Plant Seed, Pull Weed will entertain, charm, and inspire you to get your hands dirty and dig deep to cultivate your inner self.
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(After all the bliss and generalized euphoria we might exp...)
After all the bliss and generalized euphoria we might experience along our spiritual path, what’s left are the karmic knots of conditioning that still need unraveling. Untying them is the work of spiritual warriors—that is, all of us. The seven factors of enlightenment are a grease to loosen them, all the while keeping us upright in our efforts: mindfulness, the investigation of phenomena, energetic effort, ease, joy, concentration, and equanimity. In Close to the Ground, longtime Buddhist teacher Geri Larkin uses stories from her own life to share some of the gifts that these factors bring. Because she refuses to be anything special, her stories are all of our stories, her humor, all of our humor, her heartbreaks, all of our heartbreaks. In this book, readers discover (or rediscover) that they have many more tools available to help with this work of "life and death" than they realized.
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Chock full of moving and enlightening stories, The Chocolate Cake Sutra will help you let go of perfectionism and celebrate the sacred nature of the life you already have.
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Larkin, daughter of a wealthy International Business Machines Corporation executive, left her successful business life as a management consultant to enter a Buddhist seminary for three years, where she was ordained.
She graduated from Barnard College in 1973.
The name Geri Larkin is a pen name. When she left she sold her material possessions and bought a brick duplex in downtown Detroit which, with the help of local residents she cleaned up and turned into Still Point. Larkin"s articulation of the concept of "right livelihood" was highly influential on Ann Perrault and Jackie Victor, two of her students who founded Avalon International Breads in Detroit in 1997.
She has been a longtime columnist for Spirituality & Health magazine.
She currently resides in Eugene, Oregon.
( Chock full of moving and enlightening stories, The Choc...)
(After all the bliss and generalized euphoria we might exp...)
(The author of "Stumbling Toward Enlightenment" puts a new...)
(A humorous and honest collection of Buddhist wisdom from ...)
( Gardens have often been used as metaphors for spiritual...)
(nice book to help you visualise where ZEN can take you)
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