Plant Seed, Pull Weed
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Plant Seed, Pull Weed: Nurturing the Garden of Your Life
Book
- A Buddhist 'good life' Theory: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Buddhist Carol
- A Fearless Heart
- A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night
- A Mirror Is for Reflection
- Altruism as Antidote to Demagoguery: Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara Chapter 3 as Method for Countering Identity Divisions
- An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics
- Anger: The Seven Deadly Sins
- Becoming Bodhisattvas
- Bhadracaryāvidhi in the Śikṣāsamuccaya Chapt. 16
- Bile & Bodhisattvas: Śāntideva on Justified Anger
- Bodhicaryāvatāra and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong)
- Bodhicitta: Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment
- Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Exposition de la pratique des bodhisattvas
- Bodies and Embodiment in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Buddhist Ethics (2003)
- Buddhist Ethics and Globalization on the Basis of Bodhicaryavatara
- Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Conventional Truth: Path and Transformation
- Built on Emptiness: Śūnyatā as a Basis for Mahāyāna Ethics, With References to Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Can We Kill Illusory People? Some Philosophical Reflections on Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra 9:11-13ab
- Comparative Confession: A Comparative Study of Confession in the Writings of Tertullian, Cassian, and Śāntideva
- Compassion and Equality
- Compassion in Our Day: Learning from Shantideva
- Consequences of Compassion
- Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics-Review by Meyers
- Courageous Compassion
- Das 7. Kapitel über die Tatkraft in Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Das Ritual der Entschlussfassung im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Kap. II und III)
- Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara)
- Does "Buddhist Ethics" Exist?
- Does Anātman Rationally Entail Altruism? On Bodhicaryāvatāra 8:101-103
- Emptiness and Moral Perfection
- Enlightenment to Go
- Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva
- Ethics (Garfield)
- Ethics in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
- Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman
- Exchanging Self and Other
- Extreme Giving: The Vessantara Jātaka and Shantideva's A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
- Features of Śraddhā in the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- Fierce Devotion to all Beings: The Role of Emotions in Śāntideva’s Introduction to the Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra)
- Following in the Buddha's Footsteps
- For the Benefit of All Beings
- From Madhyamaka to Consequentialism: A Road Map
- From Sickness to Empathy: How Śāntideva and Jesus's Healing of the Man Blind from Birth Might Help Us Understand the Ongoing Pandemic
- From the Profound View of the Ultimate to Everyday Practice: Tokme Zangpo's Integration of Śāntideva's Teachings into Mind Training
- Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108
- Guidance for the Spiritual Caregiver from the Bodhicaryavatara by Shantideva
- Healing Anger
- Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective-Review by Naga
- In Praise of Great Compassion
- Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva's Cultivation of Compassion
- Internal and External Opposition to the Bodhisattva's Gift of His Body
- Madhyamaka Ethics
- Mapping the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Mental Purification (Blo sbyong): A Native Tibetan Genre of Religious Literature
- Mindfulness and Ethics: Attention, Virtue and Perfection
- Mindfulness and Moral Transformation: Awakening to Others in Śāntideva's Ethics
- Moderation or the Middle Way: Two Approaches to Anger
- Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness
- Moral Pluralism, Skillful Means, and Environmental Ethics
- Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya-Review by Osto
- Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue-Review by Goodman
- No Time to Lose
- On Altruism and Rebirth: Philosophical Comments on Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 97-8
- On Learning to Overhear the "Vanishing Poet"
- On the Classification of Śāntideva's Ethics in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- One Aspect of the Acceptance of the Bodhisattva-śīla in Tibet
- Patience and Perspective
- Patience: A Guide to Shantideva's Sixth Chapter (Zopa 2020)
- Peaceful Heart
- Perfecting Patience
- Performing Text as Practice: Rdza Dpal sprul's Practice Manual on the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
- Plant Seed, Pull Weed
- Prajñākaramati on Śāntideva's Case Against Anger: A Translation of Bodhicaryāvatāra-pañjikā VI.1-69
- Puṇya and Pāp in Public Health: Everyday Religion, Material Culture, and Avenues of Buddhist Activism in Urban Kathmandu
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice-Review by Harris
- René Girard, Śāntideva, and the Emptiness of Desire
- Resentment and Reality: Buddhism on Moral Responsibility
- Ritual Structure and Material Culture in the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
- Seeing from All Sides
- Self-Protection through Mindfulness, Śāntideva
- Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara: An Internal Pilgrimage to Universal Peace and Compassion
- Shantideva: How to Wake Up a Hero
- Stoics and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual Exercise and Faith in Two Philosophical Traditions
- Suffering Made Sufferable: Śāntideva, Dzongkaba, and Modern Therapeutic Approaches to Suffering's Silver Lining
- The Awakening Mind (Tsering 2008)
- The Bodhi-caryâvatāra and Its Monastic Aspects: On the Problem of Representation
- The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature
- The Bodhisattva Guide
- The Buddhist Roots of Secular Compassion Training: A Comparative Study of Compassion Cultivation in Indian and Tibetan Mahāyāna Sources with the Contemporary Secular Program of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)
- The Changing Way of the Bodhisattva: Superheroes, Saints, and Social Workers
- The Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature
- The Compassionate Gift of Vice: Śāntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Edelglass
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Tatz
- The Role of Solitude (viveka) in the Eighth Chapter (Dhyānapāramitā) of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- The Self and the Suffering Other: Levinas and Śāntideva on the Ethics of Compassion
- The Social Message of Mahayana Buddhism
- The Training Anthology of Śāntideva
- The Triskandha, Practice in Three Parts: Study of an Early Mahāyāna Buddhist Ritual
- The Śāntideva Passage: Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII.90–103
- Uncommon Happiness
- Virtuous Bodies
- What Would a Sage Do?
- Why War? Why Not Peace? Santideva's Answer to Einstein's Famous Question to Freud
- Śāntideva (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Śāntideva and an Ethic of Radical Compassion
- Śāntideva and the Moral Psychology of Fear
- Śāntideva on Roots and Resolutions of Violence
- Śāntideva's Impartialist Ethics
- Śāntideva's Statement about Confession
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Description
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. (Source: HarperOne)
Thematically based on Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra.
Citation
Larkin, Geri. Plant Seed, Pull Weed: Nurturing the Garden of Your Life. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2008.
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Table of contents
- EPIGRAPHiii
- PROLOGUEix
- INTRODUCTION1
- CHAPTER ONE — Casing the Landscape: Developing a Clear Intention15
- CHAPTER TWO — Rolling Up Your Sleeves: Transcending Hesitation27
- CHAPTER THREE — Preparing the Ground: Clear Seeing45
- CHAPTER FOUR — The Great Fertilizer: Generosity63
- CHAPTER FIVE — Planting Like You Mean It: Enthusiasm87
- CHAPTER SIX — Weeds and More Weeds: Taming Our Minds101
- CHAPTER SEVEN — Tomatoes Grow at Their Own Speed: Patience119
- CHAPTER EIGHT — Weeding at the Root: Anger141
- CHAPTER NINE — The Great Harvest: Joy159
- CHAPTER TEN — The Whole World Is Our Garden: Vigilance173
- BOOK RESOURCES188
Interconnections
1 Teaching based on
An "Introduction to Bodhisattva Practice," the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra is a poem about the path of a bodhisattva, in ten chapters, written by the Indian Buddhist Śāntideva (fl. c. 685–763). One of the masterpieces of world literature, it is a core text of Mahāyāna Buddhism and continues to be taught, studied, and commented upon in many languages and by many traditions around the world. The main subject of the text is bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment, and the path and practices of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (pāramitās). The text forms the basis of many contemporary discussions of Buddhist ethics and philosophy.
