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Buddhist chaplain Harrison Blum draws inspiration from spontaneous Christian prayer in challenging Western Buddhists to expand the often internal, silent, and measured nature of their practice into something more relational, spoken, and prophetic. Drawing from examples of his university, medical, and psychiatric care chaplaincy work, Blum describes his own path to finding his authentic voice in praying across faith traditions, and in turn invites further modalities of Buddhist practice beyond silent meditation and Dharma talks.
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Notes
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David Cooper, God is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), p. 69.
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Bodhicaryavatara, translated by Kate Crosby and Andrew Skilton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 99.
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Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta: The Shorter Instructions to Malunkya, accessed 5/19/2016; http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.063.than.html
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Paul Knitter, Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian (London: Oneworld Publications, 2009), p. xi.
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The idea that amidst the apparent separations between subject and object, between self and other, each supposedly distinct person or object is actually part of something greater and connected. For more see Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching (New York, NY: Broadway Books, 1998).
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Knitter, pp. 34–35, 45, and 160 respectively.
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Knitter, p. 54.
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Harrison Blum, Dancing with Dharma: Essays on Movement and Dance in Western Buddhism (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2016).
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Knitter, p. 217.
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Joan Wittig, “Fostering Equanimity and Mindfulness through Dance/Movement Therapy and Authentic Movement,” in Dancing with Dharma: Essays on Movement and Dance in Western Buddhism, edited by Harrison Blum (Jefferson: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2016), p. 43.
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Blum, H. (2018). Buddhists, Get Your Prayer On: Reflections on Christian Spontaneous Prayer by a Buddhist Chaplain. In: Gustafson, H. (eds) Learning from Other Religious Traditions. Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76108-4_9
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