Steve Kanji Ruhl, ordained as a Zen Buddhist minister through the Zen Peacemaker Order, is the author of Enlightened Contemporaries and two volumes of poems, The Constant Yes of Things and Paintings of Rice Cakes Satisfy Hunger.
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This luminous memoir combines the hardscrabble setting of Appalachia with the spiritual wisdom of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Appalachian Zen describes a journey we all take, one that Buddhism calls 'seeking our true home.' Edgy, lyrical,... SEE MORE