Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (955 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1614293511 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Larry is one of the core teachers and leaders of the East Bay Meditation Center and is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council. He lives in San Francisco.Jan Willis is the author of Dreaming of Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist—One Woman’s Spiritual Journey. She teaches at Wesleyan University, and lives in Connecticut.Sylvia Boorstein is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center
If you’re already engaged in this work, this book will remind you none of us do this work alone. For anyone who longs to collaborate and create a just and inclusive community, Larry provides a brilliant guidebook.” —Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With HeartHow can we connect our personal spiritual journeys with the larger course of our shared human experience? How do we compassionately and wisely navigate belonging and exclusion in our own hearts? And how can we embrace diverse identities and experiences within our spiritual communities, building sanghas that make good on the promise of liberation for everyone? If you aren’t sure how to start this work, Awakening Together is for you. Whether you find yourself at the center or at the margins of your community, whether you&rsqu
In a voice both passionate and wise, Larry Yang guides us to co-create spiritual communities that embrace the pain of oppression and inequity as integral to the ground of compassion and liberatory spiritual practice.” (Mushim Patricia Ikeda, Buddhist teacher, author, and activist)“In Awakening Together, Larry Yang shares an in-depth personal journey and his professional experience of wise and actionable guidance for building inclusive Buddhist communities. The integrity and timeliness of Larry Yang’s teaching has the power of an incoming tide.” (Joanna Macy, author of Coming Back to Life)“Awakening Together combines the intimately personal, the Buddhist and universal into a loving, courageous, important work that will benefit all who read it. Parts of this book may make some people in th