TEACHINGS OF THE EARTH

TEACHINGS OF THE EARTH:
ZEN AND THE ENVIRONMENT
John Daido Loori Shambhala

This short, gracefully-written book describes a group of elegant ideas about our relationship to the environment. At first glance, these teachings from the Zen tradition—the interdependence of everything in the phenomenal world, the action of non-action, the teachings of the insentient—seem counter-intuitive and strange, but that’s really an indictment of the way we’ve been conditioned. Loori’s fresh reading of Walt Whitman’s poems is especially insightful. Teachings of the Earth will assist you in seeing more clearly into the heart of things.