If You're Lucky, Your Heart Will Break

Field Notes from a Zen Life

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Eastern Religions, Zen Buddhism, Inspiration & Meditation, Spirituality, Health & Well Being, Self Help, Self Improvement
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Author: James Ishmael Ford ISBN: 9781614290438
Publisher: Wisdom Publications Publication: September 11, 2012
Imprint: Wisdom Publications Language: English
Author: James Ishmael Ford
ISBN: 9781614290438
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Publication: September 11, 2012
Imprint: Wisdom Publications
Language: English

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 connection 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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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 connection 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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