A Single Excellent Night weaves together awakening experiences and pivotal realizations from the first four years of a 15-year apprenticeship Lee Carlson spent with Peter Matthiessen.
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In Buddhism, dharani refers to sacred utterances—words of power that carry transformative energy. The same holds true in counseling, where language itself can become an act of healing.
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Hope is a charged word—like love—that can have different meanings for people, and different ways of expressing it.
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Listening to preaching is like trying to achieve change by wearing a cloak of words.
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In my darker moments, I sometimes wonder if Buddhism in the West has become a plaything for middle class dilettantes, a sizeable number of whom seem to prefer to turn their back on current realities—because they can.
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