The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path, by Jay Michaelson
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The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path explores the counter-intuitive insight that sadness and joy are not opposites - and that human capacities often suppressed or rejected can, instead, be gateways to deep joy, creativity, and liberation. Its eighty-two short, poetic, sometimes epigrammatic chapters draw on contemplative traditions, art, even pop songs. They are reflections on the path of surrender, alchemy, and the sacred.Written over a ten year period, and completed in the mourning period after the death of the author's mother, The Gate of Tears is not a self-help book. If anything, it is a self-helpless book, discovering a happiness deeper than transitory joys that emerges precisely when the resistance to sadness is released. As the contemporary Buddhist teacher Lama Surya Das says in his foreword to the book, "the only thing that prevents happiness is searching for it."The Gate of Tears draws on Jay Michaelson's fifteen years as a student, and now a teacher, of Buddhist and Jewish contemplative paths. Michaelson is a rabbi, and holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Thought, and has taught Jewish mysticism in and outside the academic world. Yet he is also a longtime teacher of insight meditation in Western Buddhist and secular mindfulness contexts, who has sat many months-long silent meditation retreats. With his usual blend of erudition and accessibility, Michaelson weaves together Hasidic tales and Dharma teachings, Leonard Cohen and Langston Hughes.The Gate of Tears is not a New Age book with easy answers; it is infused with a contemporary sensibility, skepticism, and humor.Keywords: sadness and spirituality, sadness and meditation, mindfulness, Buddhism and Judaism, depression and meditationAdvance Praise"Jay Michaelson's incisive and exquisitely profound insights into our human condition come in full force in The Gate of Tears. Here we have an antidote to mindless feel-good ideology, and gentle instructions in attending to the fullness of our experience so we see the value in the downs, not just the ups. Our inner world will never seem the same."- Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence"The Gate of Tears is a beautifully written, transformative book. Jay Michaelson guides us, instead of denying, avoiding, explaining away or resisting sadness, to go right into the heart of it. There we find open space, true love of life, and, perhaps most redeeming, one another."- Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness"Jay Michaelson's writing is always bracing and brave, but The Gate of Tears has particular power. He guides us to explore - and accept - the truth of what he calls "ordinary sadness," and stop looking for happiness so that we might actually find it. Every chapter made me feel as if he was seeing me personally. This book will change your perspective and ease your load."- Abigail Pogrebin, author of Stars of DavidAbout the AuthorDr. Jay Michaelson is the author of six books, including Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism and the Next Generation of Enlightenment (North Atlantic, 2013) and the bestselling God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality (Beacon, 2011), as well as over 300 articles in The Daily Beast, Atlantic, Tricycle, the Forward, and other publications.
The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path, by Jay Michaelson- Amazon Sales Rank: #768201 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .46" w x 5.51" l, .57 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 200 pages
Review "Teaching us how to distinguish sadness from depression and sorrow from despair, Michaelson shows us how to walk through the "gate of tears" into a territory "full of the promise of healing and redemption." His book is an invitation to awaken to and accept the fullness of our human experience, in which joy and sadness, rather than being opposites, coexist in the complex harmony that is life on Earth." - Kristine Morris, Foreword Reviews (five star review)"Have you ever felt that a book's arrival in your life was a perfectly-timed gift? That's how I felt when I received my copy of Jay Michaelson's The Gate of Tears... I am grateful for its presence on my bookshelves, and I know that I will read it again."- Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, VelveteenRabbi.blogs.com
From the Author I went on my first meditation retreat, years ago, with the intention of achieving enlightenment. Not right away, of course, but hopefully, eventually. Along the way, I thought that I might have some of the wonderful, transformative experiences that I'd read and written about as a scholar of religion. So I went on that first retreat,ready to see God.Instead, I saw myself. To my dismay, I found great loneliness, emotional scars from fifteen years of hiding and denying my sexuality,and, above all, a bundle of tactics to avoid seeing clearly--the way I was seeing now, it seemed, for the first time. This wasn't what I had signed up for! I was supposed to be "above"all that. I had been a successful software entrepreneur, a Yale-educated lawyer, and supposedly hard-edged journalist. What was I doing with--gasp--my "inner child"?Eventually, some of those visions and ecstasies did arrive-- and pass, as they inevitably do--and I have been blessed with many years of powerful and profound experiences, far beyond anything I would have imagined on that first retreat. But over time, these experiences became a kind of sideshow.In fact, the so-called "therapy" was the real work. Gradually, I learned to create a kind of internal spaciousness around self-doubt, self-hatred, and pain. And as I made room for the shadows, my eyes got used to the dark. I became intimate with the internal geographies of my heart. And I have written this book because, over time, I have found a reservoir of deep joy precisely in the moments of occasional sadness that attend all who choose to live life sensitive to its movements and momentums.
From the Inside Flap From the Forward by Lama Surya Das: In this book, we find a real human being seeking real truth, clarity, meaningfulconnection and love. This candid and introspective first-person reflection is a royal road to riches, and to that wisdom and wealth of contentment that the sages through-out the ages all extol as if with one voice. Read it and weep, laugh, start a journalyourself. Or stand up, raise your gaze, open your arms, and breathe. I'm about to break into song, so better end here. Better yet, let's together sing the words of Rabbi Cohen, that there's a crack in everything,and that's where the light gets in. Or where it already is.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful. Contemplative By Shoshana Razel Beautiful. Contemplative. Soulful. Redemptive. I savored this book slowly over the Jewish high holidays, and then recommended it to my fellow students, mentors, and colleagues at Harvard Divinity School, as well as to friends who, like me, have journeyed through loss in some way... Thank you, Jay Michaelson, for a book to read slowly--and then again.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Necessary Ballast By Eric Maroney Jay Michaelson’s The Gate of Sadness: Sadness and the Spiritual Path seeks to create a much need corrective path from New Age books, talks, and seminars devoted to finding and attaining happiness through spiritual and religious pursuits. Rather than viewing sadness as an impediment to the spiritual path, Michaelson frames it, quite correctly, as integral; without dark times, we would lack the necessary cognitive and mental tools to refine our sense of being in the world.Even when the sadness appears to serve no purpose, Michaelson explains techniques to hold the sadness, to allow it to dwell within us without comment or judgement. This Buddhist technique can reveal startling results. By sitting still with the sadness, we can come to an understanding of it as a fleeting state. It moves on, just like all our emotional states. Sadness has no more hold on us than any other emotion.Michaelson writes this book in the first person, giving the work an intimate feel, revealing much about himself and the ups and downs of his quest. This book is excellent ballast for the scores dangerous Pollyanna spiritual guides we find today. It's OK to be sad.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Interesting read By Bzygrl The book was an easy read and quite moving.
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