Suffering and the Human Terroir
Fully embracing one's embodied suffering, rather than denying it or mentally explaining it away, can open an individual to a broader sense of interbeing, to the ability to endure, survive, and move through pain and toward a deeper sense of compassion, peace, joy, and liberation. The self benefi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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American Anthropological Association
[2017]
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Anthropology of consciousness
Year: 2017, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 156-164 |
Further subjects: | B
Interbeing
B ghos-ti B bicameral mind B Suffering B terroir |
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Summary: | Fully embracing one's embodied suffering, rather than denying it or mentally explaining it away, can open an individual to a broader sense of interbeing, to the ability to endure, survive, and move through pain and toward a deeper sense of compassion, peace, joy, and liberation. The self benefits from exploring interbeing using an environmental metaphor to consider the human body: the body as terroir. Terroir is analogous to the specific microclimate and natural environment in which quality wine is produced. Appreciation of oneself as a unique mobile terroir can reveal estranged aspects of the host/guest (ghos-ti) relationship of interbeing within the individual body/self. Perhaps this is what those who practice interbeing in the real world have come to understand. |
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ISSN: | 1556-3537 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Anthropology of consciousness
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12078 |