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Sanctuary : a meditation on home, homelessness, and belonging / Zenju Earthlyn Manuel.

by Manuel, Zenju Earthlyn.

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Wisdom Publications, 2018.

Home -- Religious aspects.

Home -- Religious aspects -- Zen Buddhism.

9781614293491 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Meditation on home, homelessness, and belonging

104 p. ; 21 cm.

Where the heart lives: the relationship between home and sanctuary -- Where we were born: the soul and home -- Where the sea delivered us: the need for sanctuary -- What we create: shared community and kinship -- Touching the mother's feet: understanding our common birth -- Brought from an old place: the earth as home -- Where there is enough air to breathe: impermanence and home -- Where bamboo sinks itself into you: establishing sanctuary from a place of freedom.

"“Sanctuary” is the home we can return to when our lives are under threat, where we can face what's difficult to love, and have a place where we can truly say, “I am home”—and spiritual teachers often emphasize sanctuary’s inner dimensions, that “our true home” is within. “Homelessness,” in turn, can be viewed as a forced experience or one in which there is a spiritual void in being or feeling home. Drawing from her life as a Zen Buddhist priest whose ancestors labored as slaves in Louisiana, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel explores the tension between oppression—based on race, religion, ability, class, orientation, gender, and other “ghosts of slavery”—and finding home within our own hearts. Through intimate personal stories and deep reflection, Manuel helps us see the moment when the unacknowledged surfaces as “the time we have been practicing for,” the epiphany when we can investigate the true source what has been troubling us. This insightful book about home and homelessness, sanctuary and refuge offers inspiration, encouragement, and a clear-eyed view of cultivating a spiritual path in challenging times."--From publisher.

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