“In this taut, fearless, and well-argued manifesto, Larry Ward offers us a deeply insightful analysis of America’s racial karma—of how it operates individually and collectively—and how it can be worked with and transformed. Drawing on Buddhist psychology, trauma theory, neuroscience, and years of practice … the result is a searing, liberative, and tender work—a book that is both urgent and necessary.” — Jan Willis, author of Dharma Matters: Women, Race, and Tantra Dr. Larry Ward is a senior teacher in Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition, the author of the book America’s Racial Karma, and co-author with …
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David James Duncan on the Unintentional Menagerie of Sun House, Friendship, and the Beguines
“Sun House is not a mere book, but a singular world in which to reside, and to feel more alive. Laced with humor and high-lonesome lyricism, this sweeping tale locates the grand in the smallest particulars, reaches its heights by flooding us with light and loss, and arrives, ultimately, in hard-won hope.” — Chris Dombrowski, author of The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water David James Duncan is the author of the classic novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, the nonfiction collection and National Book Award finalist, My Story as …
Harmonizing In The Empty Fullness
We are at the dawn of Season Five, it is just peeking over the horizon, a collection of conversations with contemplatives breaking through the noise of the day, to hallow the fields, seas, and trees of life with presence. This infilling of presence reaches out like the chirpings from the old Psalm book, “Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult, and everything in it. Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy before the Lord.” 13th Century Dominican, Meister Eckhart preached, …