A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
As
you extend tenderness to others, you may also begin to recognize how it
brings out tenderness in them. Life begins to look more like a mother
gazing at her infant child with deep adoration.
Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, “Nurturing the Intelligent Heart”
This review of Ben Van Overmeire's American Koan: Imagining Zen and Self in Autobiographical Literature explores how koans and autobiographical narratives reveal the evolution of Zen practice in America.
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