What Is Solitude
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In My Solitude
Pawel Jankiewicz, born in 1982, is a writer from Sieradz, Poland. He finished law school in Lodz with a thesis on art scandals and their normative entanglements, and his literary project keeps the commitments between the official and the unofficial. For well over a decade, it is sustained by precarious jobs: from bars of London to warehouses of Berlin. He’s been engaged in numerous collaborations: local literary groups (AHAB), the streetart milieu (Noriaki), galleries (P145), residencies (ZK/U), festivals (Fluctoplasma), parainstitutions (Salon 321), and individual artists (Ashar Mumtaz). He published in literary magazines (“tau”), academic journals (with Pablo Arboleda), and within platforms for nonorthodox discourse (Racjonalista). His inquiry of the in-distinct indistinct, within the urban as well as the artistic, is steadily advanced in the zine “Distinct Inside” (with Michael Hazell). Politically active, and taking sides, he’s a member of DiEM25, Left Unity, and Lewica Razem in Berlin.
The Notion of Solitude in Pali Buddhist Literature
Author: Indaka Nishan Weerasekera
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2024-05-30
Exploring how notions of solitude in Pali literature are encompassed in various literary forms, such as stock formulae, poetry, narrative, and imagery, this book includes close analysis of some of the most famous Buddhist verses about solitary practice. Indaka Nishan Weerasekera considers how solitude is valued as one significant aspect of the Buddhist path, including how the imagery of landscape, especially the forest, serves to both inspire solitary practice as well as functions as a metaphor for meditation. The author employs a cross-section of primary sources to explore the practical and psychological aspects of solitude in relation to Buddhist meditation, as well as relational/attitudinal concepts such as renunciation or desirelessness, independence, and self-reliance. This 'lonely' aspect of the Buddhist path sits alongside the 'communal' aspect of the Buddhist teachings. Together, they serve to maintain monastic harmony, while the 'social' aspect preserves monastic relations with wider society.
Practices of Love
Spiritual disciplines are often viewed primarily as a means to draw us closer to God. While these practices do deepen and enrich our "vertical" relationship with God, Kyle David Bennett argues that they were originally designed to positively impact our "horizontal" relationships--with neighbors, strangers, enemies, friends, family, animals, and even the earth. Bennett explains that this "horizontal" dimension has often been overlooked or forgotten in contemporary discussions of the spiritual disciplines. This book offers an alternative way of understanding the classic spiritual disciplines that makes them relevant, doable, and meaningful for everyday Christians. Bennett shows how the disciplines are remedial practices that correct the malformed ways we do everyday things, such as think, eat, talk, own, work, and rest. Through personal anecdotes, engagement with Scripture, and vivid cultural references, he invites us to practice the spiritual disciplines wholesale and shows how changing the way we do basic human activities can bring healing, renewal, and transformation to our day-to-day lives and the world around us.