ISBN The Way of Tenderness

Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender_x000D_
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“What does liberation mean when I have incarnated in a particular body, with a particular shape, color, and sex?”_x000D_
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In The Way of Tenderness , Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel ings 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._x000D_
Manuel ings 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 emace the tenderness found where conventional reality and emptiness intersect. Only warmth and compassion can cure hatred and heal the damage it wreaks within us._x000D_
This is a book that will teach us all.