Your Life as a Buddha: Zen Faith for the 21st Century [Paperback]

Bija Andrew Wright (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 22, 2009

This book uses an ancient Buddhist text, the Lotus Sutra, to explore the role of religious Buddhism in contemporary society.

Product Details

• Paperback: 142 pages
• Publisher: lulu.com (October 22, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 055708556X
• ISBN-13: 978-0557085569
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,137,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Characteristic of the best Dharma books . . ., September 8, 2010

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. . . is the evidence of a warm heart and "opened hand of thought" (to steal from Japanese Zen Master Uchiyama). This book delivers on both counts.

Some of it, I think, is the Lotus Sutra -- vast, sprawling, and epic -- from which this book takes its cues. Most of it, though, is the author, Dharma Teacher Bija Andrew Wright, who is apparently as at home swimming through popular culture as he is making a beautiful case against a too-quick oversimplification of Zen practice as simple navel-gazing (as it often tends to be presented in the West). In "Your Life as a Buddha", Wright makes a strong argument -- predicated on his own practice and experience -- for the other parts of Zen as it has always actually been handed down: sitting, yes, but also chanting, liturgy, sutras, life out there in the supermarkets of the world.

Beautiful Dharma. Should be helpful to anyone trying to figure out how to translate this ancient practice onto the streets of the new American century.