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Grassroots Zen: Community and Practice in the Twenty-First Century
By Perle Besserman and Manfred Steger
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Grassroots Zen envisions a socially engaged Buddhism where zazen is integrated each day with work, family, and social obligations.Though both authors have practiced traditional Zen for decades here they eschew the militaristic, patriarchal tendencies of Zen in favor of "an egalitarian community of socially mobile members who place less emphasis upon transmission and hierarchy than on individual responsibility."
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Perle Besserman
Perle Besserman is the author of several classics on meditation, the Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, and women and spirituality, including Grassroots Zen. She is a contributor to 13th Moon, Lilith, and East West, and is the recipient of the Theodore Hoepfner Fiction Award. She is co-leader of the Princeton Area Zen Group, and is Emerita Professor at Illinois State University.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An interesting little book about a type of Zen which has no lineage and makes it own way. Not for a beginner as there although they talk about lots zazen (Zen medition) there are no clear instructions as how to do it.
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