BY ROSHI JOAN HALIFAX, AUTHOR OF STANDING AT THE EDGE Buddhist women’s voices can tend to be subdued in and sometimes even absent from public conversation. Not so with Roshi Grace Schireson. Her forthrightness, her strength, her humor, and her wisdom are threads that weave this marvelous book into a powerful tapestry of insight, inspiration, …
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zen women stop the bull
My book cover to Zen Women inspired this protest sign! (Note the little face on the bull below).
humbled by life’s blows as well as its beauty
This post was originally published as “Who Was Otagaki Rengetsu?” in Lion’s Roar, April 11, 2019. Her pottery, inscribed with her poems, has a down-to-earth appeal coupled with a sublime beauty. Her elegant calligraphy, done in the curvaceous women’s script known as hiragana—more emotionally accessible than classical Chinese characters—touches us through its simplicity. But it is …
we should NOT be a welcome mat for cruelty
Note: This is an excerpt of “BUDDHIST LEADERS CONDEMN CHILD SEPARATION AT US-MEXICO BORDER” – Read the full article in Tricycle Magazine, June 2018 Buddhist teachers explain why they joined the more than 200 others who signed a petition calling for an end to the “morally unconscionable” policy. This week more than 200 Western Buddhist …
The trainings that have been passed on to us have to do with training young men
This is an excerpt from “Making Our Way: On Women and Buddhism”, a conversation where Grace Schireson, Christina Feldman, Rita Gross, and Lama Palden Drolma discuss how women are defining new roles as Buddhist leaders, teachers, and practitioners, with an introduction by Sandy Boucher. This was originally published and in Lion’s Roar March 1, 2016. …