Beautiful, inspiring, and practical, Dharma Days is a unique engagement calendar that applies the Buddha’s teachings to modern life with wisdom and gentle humor. The calendar’s overall theme, kindness and compassion, is expanded in writings, many by noted Buddhist leaders, on topics such as equanimity, openness, healing, and service. Combined with full-color reproductions of Buddhist art from major museum collections and subtly witty Zen brushworks, the calendar’s teachings, poems, and stories lift the heart, quiet the mind, and point the way to a life of inner peace and fulfillment in the midst of life’s challenges. Also included are selected Buddhist sacred days, daily and weekly space for recording practice, yearly grids for 2010 and 2011, and a list of Soto Zen dharma centers in the United States. Dairyu Michael Wenger oversees dharma group support at the San Francisco Zen Center and is the author of Thirty-Three Fingers: A Collection of Modern American Koans. By Dairyu Michael Wenger. Size: 6 x 8 1/4 in.; 144 pages; Wire-O bound, softcover with flaps; printed on recycled paper using soy-based inks. ISBN 978-0-7649-4839-8. |
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| Monthly Topics for Dharma DaysEveryone will be a Buddha one day;
compassion, its opposite, and its near enemies;
a koan about the bodhisattva of compassion,
thoughts on being of service;
healing potential inherent in each moment;
seeing an aspect of everyone in oneself (Thich Nhat Hanh's poem "Please Call Me by My True Names");
kindness, its opposite, and its near enemy;
usefulness of mantra practice;
illusory nature of pleasure and pain;
on untangling the tangle (quotation from fifth-century scholar Buddhaghosa);
obon ceremony to benefit the dead;
vulnerability and openheartedness; and
ending the year with a vow. |
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