| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立體育大學 === 休閒產業經營學系碩士班 === 101 === Heart is the Temple: The Life Story of A Woman Who Had Changed Her Ideal from a Pure Artist to Buddhism
Abstract
The subject of this study, Miss Chen, was a female Buddhism practitioner who worked as a mentor and was deeply involved in temple volunteer activities. As a daughter, a wife, a mother in family, or as an employee, a colleague, a boss at work, what are the differences between female and male in the role of work and leisure? How these different roles influence a woman’s life, especially after her middle-age trauma, the divorce? These questions raised my motivation for this study.
Life story method had been applied in this study. The data had been collected by 6 times of semi-constructive in-depth interviews, a participant observation in a volunteer activity, and reflection notes. The data had been coded and analyzed, following the triangulation method for reliability.
The life story of Miss Chen could be separated into three periods. The first period was the Adolescence. Because of her parents’ open-minded attitude of discipline and admiration from teachers and classmates, she grew up with great freedom. The second period was the Marriage. She gave up the ideal of pursuing pure art career, but walked into marriage, and becomes a professional woman who looked after four kids and company finance at the same time instead. With expand of the company, her husband and mother-in-law thought she was too extroverted, and this factor finally led them to divorce. The third period was the Resurrection. At the beginning, the role of a divorced woman perceived a lot of negative images and disadvantages in running her business. Because of the previous marriage’s violence, she still suffered from head injury. That’s the reason why she started practicing Buddhism. After ten years of practice, she had been fully recovered from the past. Her Buddhism practice was not only as a leisure philosophy practice, but also become the faith of her life. After Immerged her life experience with Buddhism, helping others had become her lifelong goal and ideal.
From the life story of Miss Chen, I found that male is the subject term of work and female is the subject term of family, and leisure is also decided by male during marriage. When it comes to family, it is still female who needs to give up or delays her goal and ideal of her life. For those female who has devoted themselves into work and gained achievements, they are not only lack of supports from family, but also have to face a lot of pressures from family and the society.
Miss Chen’s Buddhism started as a leisure practice, but ended in salvation and self-realization. Her devotion of Buddhism practice is very much similar with the essence of serious leisure and provides the form of faith. After the process of constructing Miss Chen’s life story, I am more aware and careful for the superiority and hegemony as being a man.
Key words: sex role, work, leisure, life story.
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