The way of tenderness
Subtitle: awakening through race, sexuality, and gender
By: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9781614291497
Subjects: Social aspects; Buddhism; Race; Sex role; Sex
Description: 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. --Publisher