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You cannot save anyone. You can be present with them, offer your groundedness, your sanity, your peace. You can even share your path with them, offer your perspective. But you cannot take away their pain. You cannot walk their path for them. You cannot give answers that are right for them, or even answers they can digest right now. They will have to find their own answers. ~Jeff Foster
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    According to Jeff Foster, what is the role of a person in someone else's journey? Can someone save another person from their pain? What can one offer to others in their journey? What limitations are there in providing answers or solutions to others?
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      James Bret Shook
      Philo Thoughts perspective is definitely the biggest limitation, as in most situations. And we as humans still aren't great at describing feelings in depth because, again, perspectives change definitions of words slightly.
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    • Sandel Andrew John
      I believe that as person grows older, the more unlikely anyone, most especially anyone who has never been a part of one's life, will ever understand the true scope of that person's problems. There are only 3 progressive solutions... find a positive connection in one's past, make a positive connection for one's future, and/or start a new life regardless of the past. If the first is not possible, it maybe difficult to do the 2nd and 3rd, because as one gets older, presumptions increase as if that person already has had a life and the experiences thereof.
    • Llano Marjean
      Philo ThoughtsPhilo ThoughtsPhilo Thoughts we alone can decide what we wanted to do...hhhmmm, some can help change the view of a person's point of view...influencer is a great benefactor of a person's confusing mindset...or maybe not..but for me, we don't need to be alone to decide if we are on the wrong path that needs to be straighten out...there are good souls that means good deeds to make your life better😊...it works both ways maybe...😅
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The Way of Rest gathers nearly 200 of Jeff Foster’s most inspiring essays, poems, and reflections on restoring and reviving ourselves when we feel exhausted or defeated. Drawing from his personal journey―including his own struggles with illness and depression―Jeff invites us to contemplate "the Way of Rest" and its potential to transform our experience of:

• Imperfection―how we are "gloriously flawed" yet complete exactly as we are

• Not knowing―how we come to trust in the greater intelligence of life

• Melancholy and loneliness―how we learn to release the healing energies of "exquisite sensitivity"

• Ordinary moments―recognizing and receiving "the closest thing of all"

• Discomfort and discontent―how our frustrations become an opening to deep peace

• Love―rediscovering who we are beyond our carefully constructed facades

• Silence―discovering the vibrancy of living by letting go of thoughts and concepts

"I hope the words in this book inspire, challenge, and encourage you. But most of all, I hope they help you remember that you are life, inseparable from the power that grows the flowers and gives birth to galaxies," writes Jeff Foster. The Way of Rest brings you his companionship and support whenever you need it most.
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“Foster describes himself as someone who once wanted to die, but who later fell in love with his imperfect life and set out to offer hope to others...Though not every entry will fit the tastes of all readers, there is plenty of insight here, and Foster succeeds in showing his audience his many ways for pushing through life’s greatest challenges.” ―Publishers Weekly

“He (Jeff Foster) teaches readers to cultivate, rather than fear, their vulnerability, and to find peace with it.” ―Publishers Weekly

“The Way of Rest reads like a long poem to waking up in life as it is. For free spirits and those interested in ‘the pathless path,’ this book will be a great companion and friendly guide.” ―Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness

“Beautifully written and deeply insightful, The Way of Rest is a series of songs from the deep Heart, inviting us to be intimate with our experience―no matter how difficult.” ―John J. Prendergast, PhD, author of In Touch

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Jeff Foster shares from his own awakened experience a way out of seeking fulfillment in the future and into the acceptance of "all this, here and now." He studied astrophysics at Cambridge University. Following a period of depression and physical illness, he embarked on an intensive spiritual search that came to an end with the discovery that life itself was what he had always been seeking.
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Jeff Foster graduated in Astrophysics from Cambridge University in 2001. Several years after graduation, following a period of severe depression and illness, he became addicted to the idea of "spiritual enlightenment", and embarked on an intensive spiritual search which lasted for several years.
The spiritual search came to an absolute end with the clear seeing that there is only ever Oneness. In the clarity of this seeing, life became what it always was: spontaneous, clear, joyful and fully alive, and Jeff began to write and talk about "nonduality" (which he often calls "the utterly, utterly obvious").

He holds meetings and retreats in the UK and Europe, clearly and directly pointing to the frustrations surrounding the spiritual search, to the nature of mind, and to the Clarity at the heart of everything. His uncompromising approach, full of humor and compassion, shatters the mind's hopes for a future awakening, revealing the awakening that is always already present, right in the midst of life.
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I got this book during a difficult time and didn’t have much energy for reading. This was perfect as I could randomly open to any page and just read a little at a time, every single time discovering something valuable or helpful. It’s already got tons of underlining and marked pages. Contains beautiful wisdom.
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If I can only carry a couple books when I travel... this will be one of them. It's never too far out of reach! This book is simply extraordinary, I've recommended it dozens of friends. Thank you, Jeff Foster, for the profound influence you've had on my life!
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I would recommend this for everyone who is trying to make their way through challenges, esp. people who struggle with depression and "self-worth" issues. It addresses a lot of these feelings. It's inspiring but not trite. I find this very supportive of my spiritual practice (primarily Bon Buddhism) in a Western kind of way. It's the kind of book where you can get a lot by reading just a few pages at a time and skipping around to what resonates at that point in time. I find I don't like reading too much at a time or it kind of all runs together. I found out about this book from hearing the Sounds True interview and was intrigued enough to give it a try, even though I have more than enough "spiritual books."
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Are you tired of living life on the superhighway of stress and exhaustion? Then this book may just offer you exactly what you need to snuggle up to your life and rest in the power of being a human and spiritual creature on this planet. I love all that Jeff Foster presents in his work--- it speaks to my soul and offers the most tender, vulnerable way to be who we really are-- his authenticity, his bravery-- his words are balm to a tired heart. I highly recommend!!
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Jeff Foster is simply one of my favorite authors on the planet. After having gone through illness for over 15 years, and dark times, this book sits on y bedside table as a comfort to let you know that sitting with yourself and being where you are is OK. Nothing needs to be fixed or changed. This man is truly a genius, sharing from his struggles through illness and depression - he knows exactly the places that so many of us as humans experience. What a gift this book is. I highly recommend it for all people, but ESPECIALLY anyone who is going through a hard time.
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I have appreciated other books by Foster. The particular gift of this one is that each of the 177 pieces is like a poem, some only half a page long. So it works well for reading one a day and writing about it in your journal. Some of my favorites are about letting go of the blame game, being responsible for your own happiness, and not being responsible for the happiness of others.
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This is one of the most beautiful books I've read...its like a soothing balm to the soul. Jeffs writing washes over me like cool water on a hot day. His writing is so relatable to everyday life, how to really embrace all of our feelings in a loving way and ease the war within. His words have a hint of a modern day Rumi and are authentic and rich with his own beautiful style. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone.
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This is an amazing book.
It taught me to allow life to happen more and what life really is!
His writing is so wonderful! He's a poet at heart and the words just flow!
SO grateful for this book and the author for writing it.
If you are searching for who you really are and you honestly want truth this is a huge step in the right direction!! ☺️
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I love Jeff Foster and Matt Licata, the two of them together had a program called Befriending Yourself. I have been getting into more of their stuff and they are both so wise and lovely. This is a bit like Osho - read it at your own pace. Choose the page at random and it can be a divination. Recommend.
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Jeff Foster’s “The Way of Rest” which I won through Goodreads Giveaways is an inspiring book that gives us all the courage to live life to the fullest, accepting that we’re not perfect, will falter and fail and will face heartaches and despair. Yet amid all the turmoil in our lives we must forge ahead if we’re to discover the best in ourselves and to find peace in our discomfort.

With insights, poems and insights Jeff takes us on a journey drawing from his own experience and giving us all the power to transform our way of thinking, to be open to possibilities and not conform to the world’s way of thinking. This is a book written from the heart which I will continue to draw from and be open to sharing its wisdom with others.
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Beautiful book. A collection of essays, poems and thoughts about the human condition, and taking care of yourself. Lovely

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Every time I dip into this book, I find my soul being stretched and my regular way of thinking challenged (in a totally good way!). Jeff Foster is alive with bright wisdom and I feel grateful to have found this author.
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This book contains beautiful, inspiring and calming essays/poems. It’s not a book you’ll read in one go, but it was lovey to read a (few) poem(s) a day. This book is a true gift, for yourself or someone else.

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This book, a compilation of brief offerings of verse and prose, is directed to persons in the midst of a season of suffering. The author's own history of emotional suffering provides context for these worded rites of encouragement.

While we all have difficult times, this book would appeal most to persons who have known not just the common darkness we all experience, but those who have felt pulled to the bottom of the well of despair, depression, loss, being lost, ...

The author invites us, graciously, to embrace our humanness as integral to our path of wakefulness. He reminds us enlightenment is in the messiness of life and feelings, not dishonoring the suffering by denying it or merely trying to get over it.

The author presents himself, through these gifts of inspiration, as a benevolent presence, not someone trying to heal anyone, but a companion along the way, not as a spiritual expert, but someone as human as every reader. He gives us, likewise, a volume that can be embraced by persons of religious faith or not, for he presents a message inclusive, showing, in the process, how spirituality itself is about life, not about being aloof or apart from life.

One may find himself or herself reading along, as though walking down a well-worn path and, then, something is said in such a way that one stops, seeing something commonplace, seen and known many times, as for the first time. I found these moments to reveal a gift at creating inspiration by framing the everyday in a way leaving one in awe and seeing afresh the mundane and ordinary.

This tome invites us to sacralize our suffering, a suffering already holy, every thought and feeling whole in itself and to be embraced, like parent cuddling close child. He demystifies enlightenment, bringing liberation as close to use as this moment just as it is, not as should be or we should be. He calls this embrace of everything Love. These offerings invite us to relinquish the perfectionistic spirituality that many of us have been taught, and to relish spirituality as an authenticity beyond ideas of being spiritual or not being spiritual. Spirituality is, to the writer, just this being in intimacy with just this moment now, even when this moment is far from the moment we had dreamed it would be. Even the broken dream is holy, as sacred as the fulfilled dream, is inherently perfect in the glory of its imperfection. All is passing, all we have, he reminds us, is this one moment that never began and never ends.

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June 22, 2018
I cannot say enough good about Jeff Foster's philosophies. His unique way of helping us look at existence, has changed MY EXISTENCE. I have a degenerative disease, which I was born with and is progressing as I age. Jeff Foster's essays, prose and wisdoms, have helped me to look at my "short falls" as gifts and opportunities. I have purchased this book for 3 of my friends and I regularly quote excerpts from this book when I am attempting to help my son cope with the pains of your adulthood. It is not a self help book, but rather a wise man's perspective, offered in thought provoking terms, helping the reader to appreciate and understand how each moment we exist, is a gift to our soul. To me, Jeff Foster is a teacher and a profit.

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January 28, 2020
This book is not for me. I couldn't get past annoying writing style. It's a bit too sweet and soppy at times. And the frequent use of the word 'friend' when talking to me, the reader, really gets on my nerves. But that's personal of course.

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November 1, 2020
how to stay calm and centred when you have big goals, big dreams and an ever growing to do list?

when you want to be a part of change and yet – day in, day out – you see how much there still needs to done?

sometimes, all of it just feels exhausting.

well at those times, i might help to take a deep breath and pause.

rest to recharge.

after all, you can only give to yourself and others what there is to give in the first place.

but as a beginner, your most pressing question (before even the question of what mindfulness actually really is, before booking a course and definitely before starting your own practice) might just be:

what could this feel like for me? is getting into this going to be worth it? for me?

long story short, this book may provide answers to these questions.

because reading this book is the closest i felt to being in a meditative state outside of meditation.

read the full review on the blog : https://idealistatheart.com/the-way-o...

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While it's good to want to help readers to realize our true oceanic nature, the author's overuse of imperative sentences is not instructive. His writing style alternates between demanding and poetic/self-indulgent. Rather than guiding us on a path to "hold everything in love", he commands us on every page to see, to do, to not do.

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"The journey is the goal."

"Be the sky, in which thought-clouds can dance. Thoughts are not reality, not the truth, and not who you really are. They are sounds and pictures only."

"Keep your eyes on the prize, but do not oppose the present moment-this is the great paradox of transformation..."

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“Perhaps our dreams are there to be broken, and our plans are there to crumble, and our tomorrows are there to dissolve into todays, and perhaps all of this is all a giant invitation to wake up from the dream of separation, to awaken from the mirage of control, and embrace whole-heartedly what is present. Perhaps it is all a call to compassion, to a deep embrace of this universe in all its bliss and pain and bitter-sweet glory. Perhaps we were never really in control of our lives, and perhaps we are constantly invited to remember this, since we constantly forget it. Perhaps suffering is not the enemy at all, and at its core, there is a first-hand, real-time lesson we must all learn, if we are to be truly human, and truly divine. Perhaps breakdown always contains breakthrough. Perhaps suffering is simply a right of passage, not a test or a punishment, nor a signpost to something in the future or past, but a direct pointer to the mystery of existence itself, here and now. Perhaps life cannot go 'wrong' at all.”
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“This moment is not life waiting to happen, goals waiting to be achieved, words waiting to be spoken, connections waiting to be made, regrets waiting to evaporate, aliveness waiting to be felt, enlightenment waiting to be gained. No. Nothing is waiting. This is it. This moment is life.”

The Scent of Green Papaya

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The Scent of Green Papaya
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Directed byTran Anh Hung
Written byTran Anh Hung
Produced byChristophe Rossignon
CinematographyBenoît Delhomme
Edited byNicole Dedieu
Jean-Pierre Roques
Music byTôn-Thât Tiêt
Distributed byPrésident Films
Release date
  • June 8, 1993
Running time
104 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageVietnamese
Box office$1,700,992[1]

The Scent of Green Papaya (Vietnamese: Mùi đu đủ xanh, French: L'Odeur de la papaye verte) is a 1993 Vietnamese-language film produced in France by Lazennec Production, directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, and starring Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, and Thi Loc Truong.[2]

The film won the Caméra d'Or prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival,[3] a César Award for Best Debut at the French annual film award ceremony, and was nominated for the 1993 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[4] It was Tran Anh Hung's first feature film and stars his wife, Tran Nu Yên-Khê. It is also his first collaboration with Vietnamese composer Tôn-Thât Tiêt who subsequently wrote the music for two more films: Cyclo and Vertical Ray of the Sun.

Although set in Vietnam, the film was shot entirely on a soundstage in Bry-sur-Marne, France.

Plot[edit]

A young girl, Mùi, becomes a servant for a family that was once wealthy, but is sinking into genteel poverty due to the husband's infidelities and spending sprees. Their only income is from the wife's small business. The husband's widowed mother, an invalid who seldom leaves her upstairs room, blames her daughter-in-law, telling her, "You have a man, but you don't know how to keep him happy." The eldest son prefers his friend's company, the bookish middle son torments insects, and the youngest, who idolizes his father, is willful, disruptive, and resentful. Mùi is notably peaceful and intensely curious about the world. Having lost a young daughter during one of her husband's earlier absences, the wife is kind to Mùi, treating her like one of her own.

When the husband leaves for his fourth and final time, he steals his wife's meagre savings and jewelry. He stays away long enough for the family to almost run out of food and go hungry. He collapses soon after his return home, the wife sells an heirloom vase and other valuables to pay for medical expenses, and a doctor is summoned. As he is treated with acupuncture, musicians play cheerful music outside the room. When he dies, the wife faints and the family is shocked.

Ten years later, the family has fallen on hard times. Two sons have left, and the wife has taken the place of the grandmother upstairs, tragic and rarely seen. On the family shrine, the grandmother's and husband's photos have joined those of other departed relatives. It is determined that the household can no longer afford to keep Mùi. The heartbroken wife gives Mùi a silk dress and some gold jewelry, and Mùi become a servant for the older son's wealthy friend, who is now a concert pianist. He is engaged to be married, but seems to prefer playing the piano to spending time with his frivolous fiancée.

One night, as the fiancée chatters on, his piano playing becomes more stormy as he strives to ignore her. She leaves, but watches through the window, and sees that when Mùi enters the room, his playing becomes both passionate and peaceful. Later that night, he goes to Mùi's quarters and closes the door behind him. When the fiancée learns of this she furiously slaps Mùi, smashes some of his belongings, and then leaves her engagement ring on a table. When he returns, he calmly pockets the ring. He starts teaching Mùi to read and write. In the final scene, a visibly pregnant Mùi is reading poetry to him, and smiles.

Cast[edit]

  • Tran Nu Yên-Khê as Mui, age 20 (as Trân Nu Yên-Khê)
  • Man San Lu as Mui, age 10
  • Thi Loc Truong as La mère (as Truong Thi Lôc)
  • Anh Hoa Nguyen as La vieille Ti (as Nguyên 'Anh Hoa)
  • Hoa Hoi Vuong as Khuyen (as Vuong Hòa Hôi)
  • Ngoc Trung Tran as Le père
  • Vantha Talisman as Thu
  • Keo Souvannavong as Trung
  • Van Oanh Nguyen as Mr. Thuan
  • Gerard Neth as Tin
  • Nhat Do as Lam
  • Thi Hai Vo as La grand-mère
  • Thi Thanh Tra Nguyen as Mai
  • Lam Huy Bui as Le médecin
  • Xuan Thu Nguyen as L'antiquaire
  • Xuan Loi Phan as Musiciens
  • Xuan Dung Phan as Musiciens
  • Van Chung Le as Musiciens
  • Tho Phuong as Le coiffeur
  • Long Chau as Clientes
  • Thi Van Khanh Truong as Clientes
  • Hông Hanh Luguern as Clientes
  • Ba Hang Phan as Le livreur d'eau[5]

Production[edit]

Produced by French production company Les Productions Lazennec, the film is the debut feature film of Vietnamese-born French director Tran Anh Hung. Tran traveled to Vietnam for the first time in 16 years while the film was being prepared, making several trips to Ho Chi Minh City with his French producer Christophe Rossington. They originally planned to shoot the film on location in Vietnam. However, as filming in Vietnam proved to be too cumbersome, this plan was scrapped and the film was made in a studio in France instead. They reconstructed downtown Saigon at the studios of Bry-sur-Marne.[6][7]

The cast consisted mostly of amateurs, found through a lengthy casting process. Except for the old servant who they brought from Vietnam, all the actors were from France. Some of them had hardly any knowledge of Vietnamese or spoke different dialects. The actress who played Mùi, Tran Nu Yên-Khê, is the director's wife.[6][7]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Scent of Green Papaya". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
  2. ^ "The Scent of Green Papaya". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
  3. ^ "Mui Du Du Xanh". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
  4. ^ "The 66th Academy Awards (1994) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Full cast and crew for The Scent of Green Papaya". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
  6. ^ Jump up to:a b Booklet for the German DVD release of Der Duft der Grünen Papaya, Galileo Medien AG, 2007.
  7. ^ Jump up to:a b "Scent Of Green Papaya" (PDF). Woking's New Cinema Club. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  8. ^ Strauss, Bob (December 30, 1994). "At the Movies: Quantity Over Quality". Los Angeles Daily News (Valley ed.). p. L6.
  9. ^ Elliott, David (December 25, 1994). "On the big screen, color it a satisfying time". The San Diego Union-Tribune (1, 2 ed.). p. E=8.
  10. ^ "Awards for The Scent of Green Papaya". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 1, 2012.

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