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Dirty laundry

by Robert Winson

Buddhist priests' spousesDiariesMonastic and religious life (Buddhism)Priestrs, ZenZen BuddhismZen PriestrsMonastic and religious life (Zen Buddhism)Zen priests

One hundred days, one complete opportunity - to look at the way spiritual practice operates and life actually works. Robert Winson, poet and priest, and Miriam Sagan, poet and practitioner, spent a winter with their young daughter at a Zen Buddhist monastery in the mountains of Crestone, Colorado. While engaged there, each kept diaries and noted the events of their lives - neither compared their words. What resulted is a curious documentation via reflective analysis, rants, dreams, facts, marital strain, gossip, and honest exploration as to the dynamics of following the Dharma. Being aware can require us to come clean.

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Book data: Open Library