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- Title
Suffering and the Human Terroir.
- Authors
Muller, Rick
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
WINES; SUFFERING &; religion; TERROIR; HUMAN body in religion; NATURE &; religion; RELIGION
- Publication
Anthropology of Consciousness, 2017, Vol 28, Issue 2, p156
- ISSN
1053-4202
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/anoc.12078