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About Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer
Product Description Hidden Spring is the first book to demonstrate in moment-to-moment detail how Buddhist meditation and practice can help us cope with the ordeal of life-threatening disease. In 1995, Sandy Boucher - a well-known Buddhist and feminist writer - was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer. In vivid prose, she describes her year-long encounter with the disease, and reveals how meditation techniques and understanding of Buddhist principles prepared her to meet the mental and physical challenges of her illness. This intimate account of the development of a Western Buddhist meditator is a triumphant tale of the human spirit in its struggle with mortality, and a guide for anyone looking for strength and comfort for their own struggles. Amazon.com Review To an outsider, Buddhist meditation can appear self-indulgent, time frittered away buttressing an intransigent ego. To an insider, such as Sandy Boucher, the dividends of meditation can come at unforeseen times, under extreme circumstances, such as facing down malignant cancer. Boucher, a counterculture patchwork of pursuits and causes, sews together a memoir of suffering to rival any proof of the Buddha's first noble truth. Although her surgery is a success, like so many other cancer victims Boucher's battle with chemotherapy causes the most damage. Having lost her home, her lover, and her health, Boucher collapses into the spiritual arms of her longtime meditation teacher Ruth Denison. Parallel to the drama of the cancer, we are treated to a minibiography of Denison, who proves to be an oasis of sanity in the desert of Boucher's life. Honest, occasionally compelling, and often unusual, Boucher's story contains glimmers of Buddhism's light amid many shadows of human frailty. --Brian Bruya From Booklist In 1995 Boucher, a feminist and, for some 20 years, a Buddhist, was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. Her book is an unflinching, poignant, inspiring account of the subsequent year-long battle with the disease and the near-fatal joust with the grim reaper, which consumed every element of her life. Her faith gave her solace. With much difficulty and grave determination, she learned to live in the moment, to be fully present. The reader follows her through the nerve-racking early testing and waiting, the devastating diagnosis, the harrowing surgery, the interminable chemotherapy sessions, the long recovery process, and also, sadly, the unraveling of a serious relationship. Finally, Boucher appears compassionate yet flawed, terrified by the uncertain road ahead yet determined to follow it to the end. Anyone who has been touched by a serious illness or a death in the family will probably identify with Boucher's touching story, and admire her courage and perseverance in bringing it to public attention. And such readers may be left in tears. June Sawyers Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Review "Riveting.... And while the subject of this book is terrible to behold, the message is refreshing. Through this examination of her personal crisis, the author illustrates that anything and everything can be material for practice, that practice is unfailingly available to us in all things, at all times. Sandy Boucher weaves several stories with together with simplicity and grace. [She] has done us a service... This moving record of her journey lights a path on which many of us may one day find ourselves." ― Turning Wheel "A fiercely honest, richly contemplative, deeply moving account of... Boucher's struggle with cancer and how her long-established practice of Buddhist meditation--and the loving support of others--helped her cope." ― Yoga Journal "An unflinching, poignant, inspiring account...anyone who has been touched by a serious illness or a death in the family will identify with Boucher's touching story, and admire the author for her courage and perseverance in bringing this very personal tale to public attention. It will surely
