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The Art of Loving

Posted on by Shantigarbha
Erich Fromm in 1974, by Müller-May / Rainer Funk, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, I'm just coming to the end of writing a book on love in the context of Buddhist partnership and practice. In the three years I've been working on it, I've read several dozen books as background material. Which one has touched me most deeply? Without doubt, it's Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving, which I first read as a ...
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A Thousand Kisses Deep

Posted on by Shantigarbha
As we slide towards the mid-winter solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere, my thoughts have been turning towards the topic of love. In the darkness of the afternoons, a song has come back to haunt me, 'A Thousand Kisses Deep' by Leonard Cohen. Cohen was the ultimate ladies man, a well-spoken gentleman poet, who gave up his career as a lover to become a Zen monk.  The song appears to com...
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