Name: The Great Spring
ISBN: 9781611804072

Natalie Goldberg

NATALIE GOLDBERG is the author of fourteen books, including Writing Down the Bones, which has changed the way writing is taught in this country. She teaches retreats nationally and internationally. She lives in New Mexico.

Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life

The Great Spring

"The ogreat springo of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again-the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example. It also refers to enlightenment- obstructions shatter, pain cracks open, previously resisted truth releases, an acceptance of transiency flows through. Natalie Goldberg shares the moments that have sprung from her own life of writing, teaching, and Zen practice-moments of searching, wandering, zigzagging, losing, and leaping where she has found herself and her voice. In these pages, we watch as Natalie omakes positive effort for the goodo-one of the guiding rules of her writing life-and we see that if we can stay attentive in our lives, even in the middle of the ruins, owe can hear the sound of a songbird in a Paris chestnut tree.o Whether we know if the song comes from inside us or out doesn't matter. Thirteen of the twenty-two essays in the book have been previously published (often in a different form). Those publications include Yoga Journal, Shambhala Sun, Five Points,and Creative Nonfiction."

The Great Spring Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life

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