The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender by Manuel, Zenju Earthlyn

The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781614291251)

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The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender by Manuel, Zenju Earthlyn

The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender

$16.95
The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender by Manuel, Zenju Earthlyn

The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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"What does liberation mean when I have incarnated in a particular body, with a particular shape, color, and sex?"

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.

Author: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
ISBN-10: 161429125X
ISBN-13: 9781614291251
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2015
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/19/2015
Foreword 02/26/2015
By Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
By Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
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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.

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