Title Beautiful work : a meditation on pain / Sharon Cameron

Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 121 pages) Contents Frontmatter -- Preface -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V Summary The stories one tells about pain are profound ones. Nothing is more legible than these stories. But something is left out of them. If there were no stories, there might be a moment of innocence. A moment before the burden of the stories and their perceived causes and consequences. For Anna, the narrator of Beautiful Work, there were moments when it was not accurate to say in relation to pain "because of this'" or "leading to that." They were lucid moments. And so she began to hunger for storylessness. In order to understand the nature of pain, Anna undertakes a meditation practice. We tend to think of pain as self-absorbing and exclusively our own ("my pain," "I am in pain"). In distinction, Sharon Cameron's Anna comes to explore pain as common property, and as the basis for a radically reconceived selfhood. Resisting the limitations of memoir, Beautiful Work speaks from experience and simultaneously releases it from the closed shell of personal ownership. Outside of the not quite inevitable stories we tell about it, experience is less protected, less compromised, and more vivid than could be supposed. Beautiful Work brings to bear the same interest in consciousness and intersubjectivity that characterizes Cameron's other work Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Cameron, Sharon. Cameron, Sharon Spiritual biography -- United States Pain -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. Literary historians -- United States -- Biography Pain -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism -- Meditations English teachers -- United States -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious. English teachers Pain -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism Literary historians Spiritual biography United States Genre/Form Meditations Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 99059146 ISBN 9780822396130 0822396130

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