If You're Lucky, Your Heart Will Break: Field Notes from a Zen Life

by James Ishmael Ford

Book Overview

Using vignettes and anecdotes from his own life - as well as quotations drawn from sources as varied as the Bible, Yiddish aphorisms, and stand-up comedy - Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford shares the gifts won over his lifetime of full-hearted engagement with the Zen path. I've found myself broken open, Ford says, and found in that opening my fundamental connection to the whole world.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614290393
• ISBN13: 9781614290391
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"