Just This - Softcover

Graetz, Avigail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9363315959 ISBN 13: 9789363315952

Publisher: Bookleaf Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

For 20 years Avigail, an accomplished writer, has been following the Buddha's steps. Now forced to be in India as she escapes the war in Israel she gives her insights of the Buddha's teachings- the Dharma- through personal poetry. Poems that touch the essence of the way of freeing your mind-body through non-attachment and clinging. Poems that seek for beauty and appreciation in human kind and nature by ceasing the constant fight against them, against ourselves. Coming from a Jewish home, from the Hebrew language the poems have a simple yet rich language that can touch every person who is curios to learn how love is the expression of liberation.

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About the Author

Born in Israel 1975 to American parents, Graetz has a B.A & M.F.A in film and a M.F.A in creative writing. Avigail is on the Dharma path since 2004 and started teaching mindfulness meditation in 2009 in prison than continued teaching Dharma in many forms all over the world. She volunteers with cancer patients and uses the Buddhist teaching to support any encounter with sorrow and grief as well as joyous moments. She wrote, directed and produced seven short films and one play titled 'In Case I'm Not Around' based on the life of her friend and teacher Yael Simha Pazuelo that died from cancer in 2013. Her film ""Just This"" wan the best international film award at the Burbank film festival, September 2023. Graetz published an award-winning novel in Hebrew translated to English in 2017, titled 'A Rabbi's Daughter'. She shares her life with the cinematographer Eitan Herman and their daughter and see themselves citizens of the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bookleaf Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9363315959
• ISBN 13: 9789363315952
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102