Hunt, Dorothy
WORK TITLE: Ending the Search
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WEBSITE: http://www.dorothyhunt.org/
CITY: San Francisco
STATE: CA
COUNTRY: United States
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PERSONAL
Female.
ADDRESS
- Home - San Francisco, CA.
CAREER
Writer, teacher, psychotherapist, and spiritual leader. Psychotherapist, 1967—; San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy, San Francisco, CA, founder; Moon Mountain Sangha, San Francisco, president and spiritual director. Teaches meditation courses and spiritual retreats.
WRITINGS
- (Editor) Love, a Fruit Always in Season: Daily Meditations from the Words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Ignatius Press (San Francisco, CA), 1987
- Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy (With others), Paragon House (St. Paul, MN), 2003
- Only This!, San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy (San Francisco, CA), 2004
- Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy (sequel to Sacred Mirror), edited by John Prendergast and G. Kenneth Bradford, Paragon House (St. Paul, MN), 2007
- Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom: The Feminine Face of Awakening, With Rita Marie Robinson, Mantra Books 2007
- Leaves from Moon Mountain, illustrated by Rashani Réa, Moon Mountain Sangha (San Francisco, CA), 2015
- Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness, foreword by Adyashanti, Sounds True (Boulder, CO), 2018
SIDELIGHTS
Dorothy Hunt is a writer, psychotherapist, teacher, and spiritual leader based in San Francisco, CA. She has worked as a practicing psychotherapist since 1967. Hunt is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy. She also leads Moon Mountain Sangha, a nonprofit organization devoted to teaching meditation.
Love, a Fruit Always in Season and Sacred Mirror
Hunt is the editor of the 1987 book, Love, a Fruit Always in Season: Daily Meditations from the Words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The quotes are arranged thematically in the volume.
Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy finds Hunt and other contributors arguing in favor of pairing psychotherapy with spiritual practices. Fellow contributors include Lynn Marie Lumiere, Richard Miller, John Prendergast, John Welwood, and Jennifer Welwood.
Only This! and Listening from the Heart of Silence
In Only This!, Hunt includes poems in which she comments on spirituality. The book was released in 2004.
Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy is the follow-up to Sacred Mirror. The volume focuses on defining the “heart of silence” and explaining its power.
Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom and Leaves from Moon Mountain
Hunt collaborated with Rita Marie Robinson on the 2007 book, Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom: The Feminine Face of Awakening. It includes essays from Hunt and other female spiritual teachers.
Leaves from Moon Mountain includes poetry by Hunt. The volume also features illustrations by Rashani Réa. The spiritual journey is the subject of the poems.
Ending the Search
Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness, released in 2018, opens with Hunt sharing a tale from the Sufi tradition. The tale involves a stream deciding how it can cross the desert. The wind could take the stream across, but it would require it to change its identity. Hunt uses this tale as a metaphor for spiritual enlightenment. She goes on to discuss the ego’s role in one’s spiritual journey. Hunt cites the teachings of other spiritual leaders to support the points she makes.
A Publishers Weekly reviewer suggested that Ending the Search “will disappoint readers looking for a more formalized method.” However, the same reviewer added: “The book effectively considers how different spiritual traditions confront negative, ego-driven attitudes.” A writer on the Y.S. Stephen website described the way Hunt explains the desire for spirituality as “masterful,” but also noted: “While some of the passages are well-written with sublime turns of phrases, a lot of the paragraphs stream of thoughts are clunky and sometimes require a second reading to grasp its meaning.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, January 8, 2018, review of Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness, p. 57.
ONLINE
Buddha at the Gas Pump, https://batgap.com/ (December 18, 2015), Rick Archer, author profile.
Dorothy Hunt website, http://www.dorothyhunt.com/ (June 18, 2018).
Science and Nonduality, https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/ (June 18, 2018), author profile.
Y.S. Stephen website, http://www.ysstephen.com/ (March 2, 2018), review of Ending the Search.
- Love, a Fruit Always in Season: Daily Meditations from the Words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta Ignatius Press (San Francisco, CA), 1987
- Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness Sounds True (Boulder, CO), 2018
- Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom: The Feminine Face of Awakening - 2007 Mantra Books, https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Women-Extraordinary-Wisdom-Awakening/dp/1846940680
- Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Volume 2 (Nondual Wisdom & Psychotherapy) - 2007 Paragon House, https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Heart-Silence-Nondual-Psychotherapy/dp/1557788626/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-8068007-6676810?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183178734&sr=1-1
- Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy - 2003 Paragon House, https://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1557788243/ilectricinfop-20/701-8530599-4335544
- Leaves from Moon Mountain - 2015 Moon Mountain Sangha , https://smile.amazon.com/Leaves-Moon-Mountain-Dorothy-Hunt/dp/0692521429/ref=sr_1_4_twi_pap_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527312513&sr=8-4&keywords=Hunt%2C+Dorothy
- Only This! - 2004 San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy, https://smile.amazon.com/Only-This-Dorothy-S-Hunt/dp/097481010X/ref=sr_1_5_twi_pap_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527312513&sr=8-5&keywords=Hunt%2C+Dorothy
- Dorothy Hunt - http://www.dorothyhunt.org/bio_page.htm
............Poems and Reflections by Dorothy S. Hunt
Dorothy Hunt is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and serves as Spiritual Director and President of Moon Mountain Sangha, Inc., a California non-profit religious corporation. Dorothy currently offers meditation and satsang gatherings, weekend intensives and retreats, and also sees individuals for both psychotherapy and dokusan (private meetings with a spiritual teacher.) Her teaching is centered in the San Francisco Bay Area, but is offered elsewhere by invitation.
Following a series of ever-deepening realizations, Dorothy was invited by her spiritual teacher, Adyashanti, to teach within his lineage. While Adyashanti was trained in the Zen tradition, Dorothy’s spiritual path led from Mother Teresa of Calcutta to the Advaita teachers, Ramana Maharshi and Ramesh Balsekar, and eventually to Adyashanti. Each one of her teachers appeared to her totally unexpectedly, yet profoundly.
- Science and Nonduality - https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/contributors/dorothy-hunt/
Dorothy Hunt serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request of Adyashanti. She is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy and has practiced psychotherapy since 1967. She is the author of Leaves from Moon Mountain, Only This!, and Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness (Forthcoming from Sounds True, Spring, 2018). Dorothy has a long and deep connection to the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and the path of Self-Inquiry, as well as the nondual teachings of Zen, Advaita and the Christian mystics. In meeting Adyashanti, she was invited beyond identification with either the absolute or relative, finding freedom in what is awake in each of us regardless of the changing faces of experience. Dorothy offers satsang, retreats, and private meetings in the San Francisco Bay area and elsewhere by invitation. www.dorothyhunt.org
- Buddah at the Gas Pump - https://batgap.com/dorothy-hunt/
320. Dorothy Hunt
Posted on December 18, 2015 by Rick ArcherDorothy HuntDorothy Hunt, Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaches at the request of Adyashanti. She has practiced psychotherapy since 1967 and is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy. Self-inquiry, as taught by Ramana Maharshi, led to the first of a series of awakenings. In meeting Adyashanti, she was invited to see beyond identification with the Absolute or the relative.
Dorothy is the author of Only This!, and Leaves from Moon Mountain, a contributing author to The Sacred Mirror, Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, and the on-line journal Undivided. She is a featured spiritual teacher in the book, Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom: The Feminine Face of Awakening.
Dorothy’s newest book: Ending the Search
For more information, visit www.dorothyhunt.org
Interview recorded 10/23/2015 at the Science and Nonduality Conference.
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QUOTED: "will disappoint readers looking for a more formalized method."
"The book effectively considers how different spiritual traditions confront negative, ego-driven attitudes."
Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness
Publishers Weekly.
265.2 (Jan. 8, 2018): p57. From Book Review Index Plus. COPYRIGHT 2018 PWxyz, LLC http://www.publishersweekly.com/
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Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness
Dorothy Hunt. Sounds True, $17.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-68364-063-9
Hunt (Leaves from Moon Mountain), spiritual director of Moon Mountain Sangha and founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy, shares her broad spiritual wisdom in this unwieldy book on fighting the ego in order to live a fulfilling spiritual life. Writing for those who feel the "spiritual impulse" toward enlightenment--she calls this by many names, including "truth, love, God, Self, Buddha-nature, freedom"--Hunt begins with a Sufi fable of a stream wishing to cross a desert. The wind offers to transport the stream, but only if the stream agrees to an identity transformation. This circular evolution (stream to rain to stream) is a metaphor for a person's spiritual journey: "We begin the search from the end and end the search where it begins." To demonstrate her points, Hunt frenetically crisscrosses traditions and quotes liberally from spiritual teachers (particularly Ramana Maharshi and Ramesh Balsekar). "One has only to taste the words of the ancient Indian Rishis, the Taoist sage Lao-tzu, the Buddha, Jesus ... to begin to resonate somewhere to that unspoken truth that touches the heart," she writes. Although Hunt's freewheeling text will disappoint readers looking for a more formalized method, the book effectively considers how different spiritual traditions confront negative, ego-driven attitudes. (Mar.)
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"Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness." Publishers Weekly, 8
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- Y.S. Stephen
http://www.ysstephen.com/2018/03/review-ending-search-dorothy-hunt.html
Word count: 473QUOTED: "masterful."
"While some of the passages are well-written with sublime turns of phrases, a lot of the paragraphs stream of thoughts are clunky and sometimes require a second reading to grasp its meaning."Review: Ending the Search - From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness by Dorothy Hunt
March 02, 2018
- 0 CommentsEnding the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness is a "treatise" on the nature of spiritual search and how it becomes a dangerous preoccupation when it becomes the goal rather than a means to an end.
WHO WOULD ENJOY READING IT?
Anyone with a love of spiritual literature that is not bound by religious tradition of a specific kind. This means Ending the Search is a book that delves into different aspects of specific religious practices and does not confine itself to a particular one. Though the author has a Christian background and use some of its analogies, a large part of this book, as I understand it, leans heavily towards Zen Buddhism. If this bothers you, please stay clear.WHAT I LOVE ABOUT IT
The author's grasp on the nature of spiritual thirst is masterful. I learnt how even the best of intentions can get hijacked by human nature where being "spiritual" becomes another tool of self-importance with no real benefits to the soul.WHAT I DO NOT LIKE
While some of the passages are well-written with sublime turns of phrases, a lot of the paragraphs stream of thoughts are clunky and sometimes require a second reading to grasp its meaning. Ending the Search is deceptively hard to breeze-through (deliberately so, I think). It will take a calm and patient spirit to crack its shell.MEMORABLE PASSAGE
"If you consider yourself a spiritual seeker, what are you searchingfor? What is the deepest longing of your heart? You may have many desires, but what is the deepest one, the one your heart knows is true, even if your mind does not?
"You may believe that you are seeking awakening, enlightenment, Self-realization, or God-realization. Perhaps you are seeking freedom, peace, love, happiness, truth, or an end to suffering. You may imagine that you know who is searching, who will be the “finder,” who will achieve the final goal, and who will be the primary beneficiary. But do you truly know what you are seeking, what is motivating the search, or who it is who is seeking and wants the search to end?"
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Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness by Dorothy Hunt will be available to buy on all major online book stores by March 2018?
Many thanks to Sounds True Publishing for review copy.