
If You're Lucky, Your Heart Will Break: Field Notes From A Zen Life
Using vignettes and anecdotes from his own life - as well as quotations drawn from sources as varied as the Bible, Yiddish aphorisms, and stand-up comedy - Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford shares the gifts won over his lifetime of full-hearted engagement with the Zen path. "I've found myself broken open," Ford says, "and found in that opening my fundamental connec...
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Wisdom Publications (August 28, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781614290391
ISBN-13: 978-1614290391
ASIN: 1614290393
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 361573
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“A wonderful, gentle, sweet book by a wonderful, gentle and sweet Zen Roshi, "If You're Lucky" may break your heart by itself. Ford's understanding of Zen is everywhere on display, but not in a pompous way. Instead, the book brims with emotion, and ca...”
ion to the whole world."What's more, If You're Lucky, Your Heart Will Break breathes new life into the Buddhist ideas of karma and rebirth - as well as the Buddhist precepts of ethical action - and finds for them kinship in other spiritual endeavors. Even the most cynical of hearts will find resonance in Ford's compassionate presentation of basic human truths.
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