Date/Time
04/25/15
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
San Francisco Zen Center
![]() with Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
at San Francisco Zen Center – City Center Saturday, April 25, 2015 10 am dharma talk, followed by discussion and book signing Free public eventWhat does liberation mean when I have incarnated in a particular body, with a particular shape, color, and sex? —The Way of Tenderness:
Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender In her new book, 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. Zenju 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. These topics will be the focus of Zenju’s dharma talk and subsequent Q&A. Her teaching on this subject is for everyone. There will an opportunity to purchase a signed copy of the book in the SFZC bookstore beforehand and have it personalized by Zenju after the talk.
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