In The Way of Tenderness,
Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel brings Buddhist philosophies of
emptiness and appearance to bear on race, sexuality, and gender, using
wisdom forged through personal experience and practice to rethink
problems of identity and privilege. Manuel brings her own experiences as
a lesbian black woman into conversation with Buddhism to square our
ultimately empty nature with superficial perspectives of everyday life.
Her hard-won insights reveal that dry wisdom alone is not sufficient to
heal the wounds of the marginalized; an effective practice must embrace
the tenderness found where conventional reality and emptiness intersect.
Only warmth and compassion can cure hatred and heal the damage it
wreaks within us. This is a book that will teach us all.
Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, Wisdom Publications, Paperback, 128 Pages, $16.95
Rev. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, PhD, author, visual artist, drummer, and Zen
Buddhist priest, is the guiding teacher of Still Breathing Zen
Community in East Oakland, CA. She was raised with two sisters in Los
Angeles after her parents migrated there from Creole Louisiana. She is
the author of Tell Me Something About Buddhism and contributing author to many books, including Dharma, Color and Culture: Voices From Western Buddhist Teachers of Color and The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women. She lives in Oakland, CA.
Foreword Acknowledgments
The Way of Tenderness
Not What You Think
Tracking the Footprints of Invisible Monsters
Multiplicity in Oneness
Body as Nature
There Are No Monsters
Notes
About the Author
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