Zen on the Trail
Title | Zen on the Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Ives |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2018-09-11 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1614294607 |
Discover how hiking can be a kind of spiritual pilgrimage—calming our minds, enhancing our sense of wonder, and deepening our connection to nature. Evoking the writings of Gary Snyder, Bill Bryson, and Cheryl Strayed, Zen on the Trail explores the broad question of how to be outside in a meditative way. By directing our attention to how we hike as opposed to where we’re headed, Ives invites us to shift from ego-driven doing to spirit-filled being, and to explore the vast interconnection of ourselves and the natural world. Through this approach, we can wake up in the woods on nature’s own terms. In erudite and elegant prose, Ives takes us on a journey we will not soon forget. This book features a new prose poem by Gary Snyder.
Zen and Now
Title | Zen and Now PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Richardson |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 5 |
Release | 2009-09-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307373150 |
On the Trail of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Zen and Now is the story of a story that will appeal to the 5 million readers of the original and serve as an initiation to a whole new generation. Since its original publication in 1968, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values has touched whole generations of readers with its serious attempt to define “quality” in a world that seems indifferent to the responsibilities that quality brings. Mark Richardson expands that journey with an investigation of his own – to find the enigmatic author of Zen and the Art, ask him a few questions, and place his classic book in context. The result manages to be a biography of Pirsig himself – in the discovery of an unknown life of madness, murder and eventual resolution – and a splendid meditation on creativity and problem-solving, sanity and insanity.
Meditations on the Trail
Title | Meditations on the Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Ives |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2021-05-11 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1614297525 |
"Going for a long hike or spending time in nature can be like a pilgrimage, a journey into the sacred. In Meditations on the Trail, Christopher Ives offers a rich array of do-anywhere meditations that will help you make the most of your time on the trail and help you return home more peaceful, more filled with gratitude, more aware of interconnection, and maybe just a little wiser. This small book-perfect for throwing in a daypack or a back pocket as you head out for the trail-is filled with practices to take you deep into the heart of the natural world and uncover your deepest, truest, most vibrant self"--
A Walk in the Woods
Title | A Walk in the Woods PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Bryson |
Publisher | Anchor Canada |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2012-05-15 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0385674546 |
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
Nothing on My Mind
Title | Nothing on My Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Storlie |
Publisher | Shambhala Publications |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 1996-11-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0834800063 |
This frank account by a longtime Zen student looks back over a journey that began in Berkeley in the heady sixties when the author experimented with psychedelics and started to study with Suzuki Roshi, who encouraged his students to find a genuine way of practicing Zen.
Zen and the Art of Running
Title | Zen and the Art of Running PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Shapiro |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2009-11-18 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1598699601 |
Draws on Zen philosophies to counsel runners on how to achieve better results by aligning the body and mind for success, providing case testimonials while providing coverage of topics ranging from staying committed and training mindfully to visualizing goals and accepting limitations. Original.
The Trail
Title | The Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Ethan Gallogly |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2021-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781737419228 |
In the wake of his father's death and recently fired from his job, Gil agrees to accompany his father's best friend Syd on a monthlong hike on the John Muir Trail. There's just one problem: Gil hates camping and is woefully unprepared for the rigors of the 200-mile journey. Moreover, he learns Syd may not survive the hike. Set authentically in the High Sierra and fused with insightful accounts of history and ecology, The Trail illustrates how wilderness can serve as our greatest guide.