One God Clapping

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Pub. Date: 2001-02-01
Publisher(s): Jewish Lights Pub
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Summary

The firsthand account of the Jewish meditation movement leader Alan Lew's roundabout spiritual journey from Zen Buddhist practitioner to rabbi. This fascinating personal story serves as a source of inspiration for anyone who is on the journey to find God in today's multi-faceted spiritual world.

Table of Contents

PART I: To Leave Everything That Is Familiar
Prologue: The Way Things Are
3(3)
A Vivid Dream
6(5)
Jewish Karma
11(5)
Please Throw Me a Rope
16(3)
How I Learned to Look Beneath the Surface
19(3)
Freedom Is a Spiritual State
22(5)
Sublimating Spirituality
27(4)
Lech Lecha
31(8)
The War Between the Two Sides of the Brain
39(4)
Death Recycles into Life
43(6)
The Question Is Not Whether a Teacher Has Real Spiritual Power, but How That Power Is Used
49(8)
Centering
57(5)
Meditation
62(7)
The Gateway
69(4)
Form Is Emptiness
73(5)
Spiritual Pyrotechnics
78(4)
Dokusan
82(6)
When Peace Breaks Out, the First thing You Feel Is the Devastation of the War
88(7)
The Need to Belong
95(5)
Emptiness Is Form
100(4)
Compassion
104(3)
They Do Not Appear or Disappear
107(11)
My Naked Heart
118(8)
Healing Presence
126(3)
Closure
129(5)
Family
134(8)
Wedding
142(4)
Narrative
146(5)
Hold On to Your Hat
151(14)
PART II: God Was in This Place and I Didn't Know It
The Funnel
165(3)
The Kaddish
168(13)
Studying Talmud
181(10)
The Holocaust
191(11)
Prayer
202(12)
Service
214(9)
Why the Messiah Doesn't Come
223(6)
Death
229(15)
Teshuvah
244(10)
The Lineaments of the Divine Encounter
254(11)
Kabbalah
265(7)
Taking Leave
272(7)
PART III: To Struggle with God Until Your Name Changes
The Shem'a
279(6)
Open the Gates
285(11)
Our Divine Name
296(6)
What I Learned from Buddhism About How to Save Judaism
302(6)
How to Look at Your Heart
308(8)
About Jewish Lights 316

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