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    Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections
    Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections
    Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections
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    Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections

    By Leza Lowitz and Akiko Tanimoto

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    "Yoga Heart is a tiny treasure to hold and to behold. Even the typography and colors are food for contemplation...highly recommended for people who will not only read the lines for enjoyment, but also use them for contemplation and right action in life." New York Journal of Books

    These sixty poems on the Buddha's six "perfections," or qualities for a meaningful lifegenerosity, kindness, patience, joy, stillness, wisdomwere written over years of yoga and meditation practice, inspired by Tibetan Heart Yoga, nature, Buddhism, Osho, Tantra, ancient Japanese and Chinese poetry, Rumi, Kabir, haiku, love, and life. They seek to capture a journey from the physical body to the subtle body to the light body, until the heart bursts open into the beautiful radiance of divine energy in the world.

    Leza Lowitz is an award-winning author and editor. She owns Sun and Moon Yoga Studio in Tokyo and has written for Yoga Journal and Shambhala Sun.

    All author proceeds from the sale of this book go to relief efforts for people and animals affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStone Bridge Press
    Release dateJul 19, 2011
    ISBN9781611725124
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      Yoga Heart - Leza Lowitz

      Yoga Heart

      LINES ON THE SIX

      PERFECTIONS

      Leza Lowitz

      with illustrations by Akiko Tanimoto

      Stone Bridge Press Berkeley, California

      Published by

      Stone Bridge Press

      P. O. Box 8208, Berkeley, CA 94707

      TEL 510-524-8732 sbp@stonebridge.com www.stonebridge.com

      Text © 2011 Leza Lowitz.

      Illustrations © 2011 Akiko Tanimoto.

      Book design and layout by Linda Ronan.

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1            2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

      LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

      Lowitz, Leza.

      Yoga heart : lines on the six perfections / Leza Lowitz; with illustrations by Akiko Tanimoto.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 978-1-933330-93-8

      1. Yoga—Poetry. I. Title.

      PS3562.O8963Y637 2011

      811’.54—dc21

      2011018097

      for my beloved teacher

      CONTENTS

      Off the Mat, Into the World

      Dana Paramita

      GIVING

      Like Water

      Bamboo

      Tonglen

      Generosity

      In Praise of Wildness

      Devotion

      Know Your Seasons

      Shattered

      Naikan

      Prasad

      Shila Paramita

      KINDNESS

      Space-Time Cowboy

      The Choice

      Choose Wisely

      The Edge

      Rock Gardens

      Just Be

      The Magpie

      Earth Household

      Resistance

      Compassion

      Kshanti Paramita

      PATIENCE

      What Does It Mean to Be Zen?

      Monkeymind Market

      Speak to Me

      Teabowl Zen

      On Modesty

      Simplicity

      Waiting

      Stop the Bullet

      Against the Need to Know

      Sadhana

      Virya Paramita

      JOYFUL EFFORT

      Shiva, Lord of the Dance

      Asana

      Skydancer of Bliss

      In a Corner of the Body, a Thief Sits Waiting

      Samurai Yogi

      Sukha, Sthira

      Touching the Buddha, Touching the Mat

      Gravy

      Right

      Lovers Count Laughter

      Dhyana Paramita

      STILLNESS

      Diamond Sutra

      Eight-Bar Meditation

      The Poem, The Body

      Loss & Gain

      Only the Dervish, Only the Dance

      Thirty Skins

      One Hand Clapping

      The Odyssey

      Spanda

      Grace

      Prajna Paramita

      WISDOM

      Butterfly

      Karma Riddle #1

      The Tiger, The Flame

      Ehipassiko

      All Is Mother

      Santosha

      Emptiness

      Seeds

      Two As One

      The Six Perfections

      Endnotes

      Bibliography

      Books by Leza Lowitz

      POETRY

      America and Other Poems by Ayukawa Nobuo (cotranslator with Shogo Oketani, 2007)

      Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By (2006)

      100 Aspects of the Moon: Poems (2003)

      Old Ways to Fold New Paper: Poems (1997)

      FICTION

      Green Tea to Go: Stories from Tokyo (2006)

      NONFICTION

      Sacred Sanskrit Words: For Yoga, Chant, and Meditation (with Reema Datta, 2006)

      The Japan Journals, 1947–2004 by Donald Richie (editor, 2005)

      Designing with Kanji: Japanese Character Motifs for Surface, Skin & Spirit (with Shogo Oketani, 2004)

      Beautiful Japan: A Souvenir (1996)

      ANTHOLOGIES

      Manoa Journal: Silence to Light: Japan and the Shadows of War (editor, 2001)

      Manoa Journal: Towards A Literature of the Periphery (editor, 1988)

      A Long Rainy Season (editor, cotranslator with Miyuki Aoyama, 1995)

      Other Side River (editor, cotranslator with Miyuki Aoyama and Akemi Tomioka, 1995)

      Japan: Spirit and Form by Shuichi Kato (cotranslator with Junko Abe, 1994)

      OFF THE MAT, INTO THE WORLD

      People sometimes ask writers, Why did you write that book? and the answer is often, The book wrote me. For me, this has never been truer than with Yoga Heart, in which both the writing and the theme (the Six Perfections)

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