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For anyone extraordinary about a teachings of Buddha and difficult Buddhist practice, Tell Me Something about Buddhism offers a ideal introduction. Written by Soto Zen clergyman Zenju Earthlyn Manuel and orderly in an easy-to-use Question and Answer format, this brief book answers a many common questions people have about Buddhism, all from who was Buddha to because do monks, nuns, and priests trim their heads.
Manuel, who was been concerned in Buddhist use for over twenty years, after an L.A. upbringing in an African-American Christian church, intertwines via a book her personal use as one of a initial African-American Zen priests. Her life in a Sangha, her training in internal communities, and her travels around a universe assembly other Buddhist practitioners inform her answers to a many elemental questions about Buddhist practice. She writes, "Had we not non-stop myself to a many teachings from a earth, such as Buddha's wisdom, it would have been scarcely unfit to tarry a fires of my soul." Included are about 20 illustrations by a author in charcoal-and-pencil style.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #200422 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-10-01
- Released on: 2011-10-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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"Discover and suffer a leisure that's your birthright. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel asks a critical questions…and brings home a answers. This elementary book creates a Buddha's undying teachings real, for all, for here and now. Ordinary life is changed life. I'm beholden for her superintendence along a Path." -- Gary Gach, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism and editor of What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hip Hop
"Tell Me Something about Buddhism is a dharma gem of good wisdom. Just reading Zenju Earthlyn Manuel's clear, beautiful, and relocating answers to questions about Buddhist use quieted and calmed my mind as fast as a timber distinguished timber sound of a han job me to awakening." --Charles Johnson, author of Turning a Wheel: Essay on Buddhism and Writing and Middle Passage, leader of a National Book Award
"In loyalty to her ancestors, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel shares a really personal tour with many gems of knowledge to assistance reanimate a sufferings of injustice and other tellurian afflictions. What does it meant to be black and Buddhist?" --Karma Leskhe Tsomo, Sr. Tibetan Nun, owner of Sakyadhita.org
"Drawing on her many years of practice, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel has brought her lived knowledge to her wholesome and merciful responses to many questions mostly asked by newcomers to Buddhism. This book is also a intense response to her younger sister's question, 'What does Buddhism have to do with black people?' She says, 'I knew, in a impulse my sister asked a question, that a Buddha's teachings had all to do with me and with each other pang vital being.'" --Sensei Zenkei Blanche Hartman, Sr. Dharma Teacher during a San Francisco Zen Center
"A book as correct and friendly as articulate to a good crony over a crater of tea. A Buddhist clergyman and gifted artist-author, Zenju Manuel also shares her possess life tour in stories, poems, and drawings with finish tenderness." --Mushim (Patricia) Ikeda, Buddhist clergyman and writer
"Zenju Earthlyn Manuel's book Tell Me Something about Buddhism offers both a story of her devout sermon of thoroughfare from a black lady to a Buddhist priest, and a hands-on primer with a elementary questions that many are fearful to ask. How does a black lady find life in Buddhism? This book is a comfortable and merciful beam of one woman's tour out of hardship to a life of freedom." --Dr. Marlene Jones, writer to Dharma, Culture, and Color: New Voices in Western Buddhism
"A warm, perceptive, and useful scrutiny of Buddhist truths by a Zen clergyman who brings her recognition of disproportion and a pang it causes to her use of this ancient devout path. Earthlyn asks us to step adult to a lives and be benefaction for them, to offer care to ourselves and others, to enhance a prophesy to concede for a spacious, proposal rendezvous with a changed days and hours." --Sandy Boucher, author of Turning a Wheel: American Women Creating a New Buddhism
"With a bid and focus that can usually come by trained devout practice,
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel's Tell Me Something about Buddhism is created with a unsentimental clear-sightedness of a rarely discriminating counterpart of transcendence." --Claude AnShin Thomas, Vietnam Veteran & Zen Buddhist Monk, author of a award-winning At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace
"Zenju Earthlyn Manuel's book is a lyrically created outline of how a teachings of a Buddha are applicable to all communities in a contemporary world. Her difference are elementary and nonetheless penetrating, covering philosophy, technique, and a ineffable qualities of experiencing a devout life." --Larry Yang, Buddhist teacher
"Thank you, Earthlyn, for presenting such a privately moving, pleasing and artistic book. Your testimony reveals both a farrago and amiability of a Buddha's teachings. This announcement is an impulse job for many of us to brave such an authentic tasting and countenance of a advantages of a Buddhist path." --Larry Ward, Dharma teacher, scholar, practitioner
"I have review many books on Buddhism in a final twenty 5 years though this one heralds a attainment of a bracingly fresh, gifted new teacher. Manuel's ability to distill a teachings and report in personal, honest terms her possess rendezvous with them creates for a review that is wholesome and affecting, artless nonetheless universal. Her difference land on we as if oral to we and your conditions alone. Her disarming character gives we a clarity of inclusion, certainty and empowerment in a awaiting of joining with your possess light and knowledge nonetheless she never loses steer of a complicated, mostly unpleasant realities of a society. Her attainment represents a whole 'turning of a wheel' of Buddhism holding base on Western soil." --Canyon Sam, author of Sky Train: Tibetan Women on a Edge of History, leader of PEN American Center Award
"I conclude a transparent and approach approach that Zenju's introduction to Buddhism points to both a North Star and a moon. Those of us who followed a North Star clarity that a trail of ransom is endless. Of all those who confront her offering, we generally wish her book reaches those whose informative bequest has been a yearning for freedom." --Sensei Merle Kyodo Boyd, Zen Priest, Dharma clergyman during Zen Center of Los Angeles
About a Author
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel is a Soto Zen Priest, Congolese drummer, a visible artist, and contributing author to several books including: Together We Are One, edited by Thich Nhat Hanh, and Dharma, Color, and Culture: New Voices in Western Buddhism. She is a theme of a new film Zenju's Path, that premiered during a Buddhist Film Festival in Amsterdam in 2010.
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2 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
A smashing beginner's book on Buddhism
By BD
Tell Me Something About Buddhism is a poetic and personal introduction to Buddhism. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel brings all of her knowledge - as, among other things, a former Christian, 20-year practioner of Buddhism and one of a few African-American consecrated Zen priests - to this obvious and ominous book. Drawing on both exemplary Buddhist teachings and her possess life, a author covers foundational teachings like a Four Noble Truths and a First Five Precepts in a peaceful and permitted way, and addresses blazing questions like 'Does imagining take divided emotions such as anger, jealousy or sadness?' and 'What is death?' with compassion. we rarely suggest this book - either we are new to a practice, know someone who is new to it, or are only seeking a uninformed new viewpoint on a dharma.
1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
Beginning a Dharma with Ekai Zenju
By Robin Friedman
Buddhism can be approached simply by brief rudimentary books or in studies of good complexity. "Tell me Something about Buddhism: Questions and Answers for a Curious Beginner" is a work in a former difficulty with moments of estimable insight. There is a mutation to a book.
Ekai Zenju is a Dharma name of an consecrated Zen priest, a standing a author explains in a march of a book. Her given name is Earthlyn Manuel, with a pretension "Zenju". Manuel has been practicing Buddhism for over 20 years. She began in a Nichren school, and in 2008 perceived ordination as a Zen priest. Manuel binds an MA in Urban Planning and a PhD in Transformation and Consciousness from a California Institute of Integral Studies. She is an African American lady with roots in Louisiana who was lifted in California.
Her tiny book is effective in a proceed it combines her personal story with and introduction to Buddhism. Manuel starts with a contention of how she became captivated to Buddhism, entrance from a credentials of African American Christianity and polite rights activism. Manuel was approached by Buddhist teachers from Nichren. She resisted during initial though gradually was drawn to a teachings. She aptly observes: "I did not select Buddha's trail as most as we had been selected by it." When asked by kin and other people what she, as an African American woman, found profitable about Buddhism, she says: "To follow a ancient teachings of Buddha was to be life affirming. On a trail of Buddha's teachings, we returned, by chanting and imagining to that place within that had not been overwhelmed by a pang of hatred. In following a trail of Buddha, we began to flay off a masks that lonesome my strange face. In a use of Buddha's love, we eventually became wakeful of my life in all of a formidable and stately moments."
The book is in a doubt and answer format. This is a device that we have found ineffectual in other contexts, though it works here. Manuel poses and offers facile answers to simple questions about Buddha and Buddhism. Her proceed combines introductions to Buddhist teachings with her possess life experience. She writes simply and mostly pithily. She uses tiny colourless drawings and poems of her possess creation as good as quotations from other Buddhist teachers. The book has a feel of personal experience.
The questions operation from "Who was a Buddha and What did he Teach" to questions per a Four Noble Truths, a Eightfold Path, a Doctrine of Karma, a inlet of enlightenment, a purpose of imagining and chanting, Buddhism's teachings about death, Buddhism and theism, and most more. Towards a finish of a book, several questions residence Buddhism and women and Buddhism and multiculturalism, quite as it involves African American practitioners.
Much of what Manuel says is striking. In deliberating a eight-fold path, for example, she discusses and qualifies a common interpretation of "right" action, "right" intention, and so onward by substituting a tenure "complete" for right. She does so "for a consequence of avoiding a clarity of right and wrong or treacherous this trail with rules." Manuel explains further: "Complete refers to doing what is profitable to vital an awakened life, vital in a proceed that does not means suffering. The trail aligns with actions of a body, speech, and heart-mind."
Manuel creates a identical regard when deliberating Buddhist precepts and comparing them to a Ten Commandments and other teachings of Western religions. She writes: "The precepts are meant to support us in valuing life and in not judging a self or any other from a moral place. They are not beliefs to magnitude someone's flaws or turn of spirituality. There is no outmost punishment for violation these precepts. Mostly, a precepts report how an awakened chairman lives aware of a probable pang caused by his or her actions. In this proceed of caring for any other, we maintain a spiritually formed amicable justice."
In deliberating how Buddhism helps people bargain with restlessness with and in their lives, Manuel offers her use chanting a Heart Sutra and says as well: "take time to perspective life though an aged story, to travel though thoughts of how we look, to listen though interpretation, to ambience something as if for a initial time, or to smell and not name what we are smelling. Move by a universe though thoughts of fondness or disliking this and that."
Overall, Manuel recoginzes that Buddhist knowledge is not to be schooled from a book, "even this one", though from patience, reflection,
and an try during understanding. In "Final Words" during a finish of a book, Manuel summarizes:
"Know that it it is formidable to learn Buddha's teachings by explanations. Know that we have done an try to concretize a training that can't be solidified since knowledge comes from your possess life. So we might still feel hairy about this practice. It is this fuzziness, joined with curiosity, that has kept me on a path. we feel honestly that Buddha dictated a use to be a continual exploration. Once we turn certain, there is no place for learning, and we find ourselves fortifying a thought with a prejudiced perspective of things."
I have been study and attempting to incorporate Buddhist teachings into my life for some time. Manuel's brief book for beginners assistance energise my efforts. This book is profitable both to readers new to Buddhism and to readers with a estimable practice.
Robin Friedman
1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
Tell Me Something About Buddhism..
By chicohua
this book is a good text for anyone questioning, or carrying questions about Buddhism or even Spirituality. Zenju creates an open space for a reader to kindly find their way. a cinema are of her paintings, her poems are included. a a smashing book. in reading thru Tell Me Something About Buddhism i found questions i hadnt even deliberate asking, and her responses to be kind and thoughtful.
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