America's Racial Karma

America's Racial Karma
Larry Ward
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h165 x 114mm - 96pg
20 Sep 2020 US
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9781946764744
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I am a drop in the ocean, but I'm also the ocean. I'm a drop in America, but I'm also America. Every pain, every confusion, every good and every bad and ugly of America is in me. And as I transform myself and heal and take care of myself, I'm very conscious that I'm healing and transforming and taking care of America. I say this for American cynics, but this is also true globally. It's for real." So says Zen Buddhist teacher Dr. Larry Ward. Shot at by the police as an 11-year-old child for playing baseball in the wrong spot, as an adult, Larry Ward experienced the trauma of having his home firebombed by racists. At Plum Village Monastery in France, the home in exile of his teacher, Vietnamese peace activist and Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, Dr. Ward found a way to heal. In these short reflective essays, he offers his insights on the effects of racial constructs and answers the question- how do we free ourselves from our repeated cycles of anger, denial, bitterness, pain, fear, violence? Larry Ward looks at the causes and conditions that have led us to our current state and finds, hidden in the crisis, a profound opportunity to reinvent what it means to be a human being. This is an invitation to transform America's racial karma.
"Buddhism is syncretic and malleable and has always mingled with whatever culture it has landed within, whether in Tibet, Japan, or China. So why not in America? More importantly for us, Larry Ward is able to relate Buddhism to the experience of people of color in America. We need this."
-- Rajeev Balasubramanyum, author of Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the catalyst that sparked the young Larry Ward's journey into a life of planetary peacemaking. Dr. Ward joined the staff of the Ecumenical Institute - Institute of Cultural Affairs in 1969, receiving Christian ordination in 1962. Over the next 25 years, he lived and worked in more than 20 countries, specializing in organizational change and local community renewal. He currently serves as director of the Lotus Institute and as an advisor to the Executive Mind Leadership Institute at the Peter F. Drucker School of Management, in Claremont, California. Larry Ward's introduction to Buddhist practice began in Calcutta, India, in 1977, but it was when he met Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in 1991 that the practice became truly central to his life. He is ordained as a Dharma teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village tradition and has accompanied Thich Nhat Hanh on peace-building missions internationally, as well as throughout the United States. Dr. Ward holds a PhD in Religious Studies with an emphasis on Buddhism and research on the neuroscience of meditation. He has featured in Lion's Roar, Tricycle, and Krista Tippett's Speaking of Faith.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781946764744
Published: 20 Sep 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Parallax Press
Publisher: Parallax Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 165mm
Width: 114mm
Pages: 96

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