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Love, attachment, the passions, gender, carnality, birth, bodily being, mortality, belonging, suffering, hope, despair, personhood, imagination, vitality, the struggle to be fully human #x96; how do these things dwell wholly in emptiness, how do we reconcile their vivid life with #x91;no-thingness'? The red (or #x91;vermilion') thread originally connoted the color of the silk undergarments courtesans were obliged to wear. Most spiritual traditions do their best to distance themselves as thoroughly as possible from such direct and intimate contact with the fact of impassioned human bodily being, if not to.;Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Zen's Saving Grace; Chapter One: Body; Chapter Two: Sexuality; Chapter Three: You; Chapter Four: Passion; Chapter Five: Care; Chapter Six: Torn; Chapter Seven: Dark; Chapter Eight: Mortal; Chapter Nine: Laughter; Chapter Ten: Hands and Eyes; Epilogue: The Teisho of the Actual Body; Acknowledgments.
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