The Dharma of Poetry: How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You to Joy
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Discover how to engage with poetry to support your spiritual practice, leading to more mindfulness, equanimity, and joy.
In The Dharma of Poetry, John Brehm shows how poems can open up new ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world. Brehm demonstrates the practice of mindfully entering a poem, with an alertness, curiosity, and open-hearted responsiveness very much like the attention we cultivate in meditation.
Complete with poetry-related meditations and writing prompts, this collection of lively, elegantly written essays can be read as a standalone book, or as a companion to the author’s acclaimed anthology, The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy.
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A poetry anthology from the editor of the bestselling Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy
Explorations of loss, of thanksgiving, of transformation—of the darkest and brightest moments of our lives—some of these poems show a path forward while others simply acknowledge and empathize with where we are. All are celebrations of poetry’s ability to express what seemed inexpressible and to bring us into greater awareness of the deepest aspects of our shared human experience.
This quietly inspirational anthology from poet and editor John Brehm includes poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Czesław Miłosz, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Joy Harjo, Danusha Laméris, Ada Limón, Kevin Young, Arthur Sze, Ellen Bass, Li-Young Lee, Natasha Trethewey, and many more.
It also includes Brehm’s essay on appreciative attention and links to guided meditations for select poems.
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The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy
The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy offers a wide-ranging collection of 129 ancient and modern poems unlike any other anthology on bookshelves today. It uniquely places Buddhist poets like Han Shan, Tu Fu, Saigyo, and others alongside modern Western poets one would not expect to find in such a collection—poets like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Billy Collins, and more. What these poems have in common is that all reflect the essential truths the Buddha articulated 2,500 years ago.
The Dharma of Poetry
In The Dharma of Poetry, John Brehm shows how poems can open up new ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world. Brehm demonstrates the practice of mindfully entering a poem, with an alertness, curiosity, and open-hearted responsiveness very much like the attention we cultivate in meditation. Complete with poetry-related meditations and writing prompts, this collection of lively, elegantly written essays can be read as a standalone book or as a companion to the author’s acclaimed anthology The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy.
Dharma Talk
A volume of original poetry from the bestselling creator of Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy.
In Dharma Talk, award-winning poet John Brehm explores the perennial themes of aging, compassion, emptiness, nonseparation, and more. At once poignant and humorous, Brehm’s gentle, wry poems remind us that the personal and the universal are not different—and point us to the Dharma of everyday life.
Publisher : Wisdom Publications (January 26, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 184 pages
ISBN-10 : 1614297207
ISBN-13 : 978-1614297208
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 4.5 x 0.7 x 6.5 inches
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Customers appreciate the book’s poetry and spiritual content. They find the thoughtful essays and carefully selected poems insightful and healing. The meditation exercises are helpful for them, providing daily inspiration and solitude in difficult times.
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K. Fritz –
Unique and Special Book
This beautiful book gave me a new appreciation and insight of poetry.
Brandon Dau –
Guaranteed to open your eyes
Quick Disclosure, the last book I read was probably 6 years ago in college. I don’t typically read. John was one of my customers and when he said he was an author I looked into his portfolio and thought maybe this book would be a good quick read since I’ve been undergoing a lot of stress in my life.I wasn’t prepared for the journey this put me though. I think in life we get so caught up in the mundane and media that it distracts us from living in the moment. When we stop to soak everything around us our thoughts form into words, we are all capable of being poets in our own mind.With my job, I am filled with constant anxiety, “did this customer get taken care of or did I miss something or …. what if”. My mind is filled with these questions that infect my mind like a sickness that I can’t quite get rid of (even off the clock). Half way through reading this book I realized I am not seeing what I want to see or feeling what I want to feel because my mind is clouded with thoughts that are toxic. What if I had a job where I don’t have to be filled with constant anxiety, would this allow me to live more clearly and in the moment? Would this allow me to have more positive thoughts when I’m not working?Reading through this I felt reinvigorated and enlighten. I’m ready to make some big decisions in my life that will help gear me towards a healthier mindset so I can form better poetry in my own mind. I never thought a book evaluating poetry would evoke so much wisdom. 5/5
Treespirit –
Poems Speak Truth Through Depth of Language
I think anyone who has enjoyed poetry will be rewarded by this book. The poems selected are both unknown or familiar. The pairing of poems thoughtfully positions multiple perspectives. That poems embody truth is a primary tenet.
Ronald E. Bloodworth –
A guide for how poetry can inform and deepen our spiritual lives
John Brehm’s book, The Dharma of Poetry, shows how poems can be a door that takes us deeper into our spiritual lives. A beautiful weave of thoughtful essays and carefully selected poems offers a healing balm from the often overwhelming stress of today’s world. I keep this book and Brehm’s companion book; The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy, on my bedside table for daily inspiration and solace in difficult times. Read this book and settle into the quiet wisdom within.
Gina –
Beautifully written
This is one book about the writing of poetry that I will refer to again and again. Insightful and lovely.
Denver Listener –
Surprises that deepen, enliven, reveal, and inspire
You need only come to this book once; afterward, it keeps coming to you. The Dharma of Poetry could easily be read in an evening, but stretch it out over several for its deep pleasure and the revelatory places it leads. John Brehm’s sure-handed tour through two profound subjects—poetry and spirituality—alternately stirs, absorbs, touches and wakens, as great books do. Like his own poems, Brehm surprises here, delivering poetry’s gifts via biography, immersion, humor, exhortation, and more. His eye-opening backgrounds on poets such as Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Frost ache with tragedy, yet reveal how often the most generous gifts arise from deepest pains. I’ll forever be grateful for the revelation of Ellen Bass’s poem “If You Knew,” included here; Brehm’s brief, two-page reflection on it comprises some of the most moving reading you’ll do. A master teacher is at work, but you won’t be conscious of it because, by his design, you’re busy observing life set right in front of you, in ways you never have and that reveal a profound path before you. That’s the gift and dharma of poetry; thanks to John Brehm for showing us.
Carolyn Martin –
A treasure chest of insight and wisdom
John Brehm’s declaration that poems “can serve as spiritual teachers and that the teachings they offer are both simple and profound” is the basis for his inspiring book. As he explores the works of such famous writers as Robert Frost, James Wright, Elizabeth Bishop, Kay Ryan, Ellen Bass, Walt Whitman, and Issa, Brehm convincingly argues that poems offer not abstract lessons, but experiential ones that have the power to transform how we live our lives.The Dharma of Poetry is a powerful reminder of what poetry can do. I will use it both as a guide to becoming a better reader as well as becoming a better writer.
chigh –
Good companion to first book
This book is an analysis of some of the poets and poems in The Poetry of Impermanence. The autor has some interesting ideas about the work. If you love the first book you will probably like this one. The suggested meditation exercises are helpful. The author is the editor of the first book and his thiughts are relevant.
Adolfo Echeverria –
Este libro es una maravilla de apertura espiritual.
Andrea Brajer –
Love this book