Dear all
Following the conclusion of Zen Teachings for Challenging Times as the Beyond Words and Letters Book Club book in February, we will be beginning a similar read together of Darlene Cohen’s wonderful book on living with chronic illness, Turning Suffering Inside Out.
Darlene Cohen (no relation to Jundo!) was a priest and teacher in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage and she practiced for numerous years at Tassajara and other Zen centres. She spent most of her life as a lay woman, before ordaining in 1999. Darlene lived for a large part of her life with Rheumatoid Arthritis and her teachings reflect her practice in dealing with the pain and challenges of chronic, physical illness. She died in 2011 of ovarian cancer but her legacy and teachings live on.
Turning Suffering Inside Out is well known among both Zen Buddhists and those in the chronic illness community for Darlene’s immensely practical and down-to-earth approach to working with illness, and her humour and irreverence at times.
Please do join us for this read-along if this topic interests you at all, whether you or your loved ones have chronic illness or not. Darlene has a lot of wisdom to share either way, and this is a book for which I have a huge amount of fondness.
Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-
Following the conclusion of Zen Teachings for Challenging Times as the Beyond Words and Letters Book Club book in February, we will be beginning a similar read together of Darlene Cohen’s wonderful book on living with chronic illness, Turning Suffering Inside Out.
Darlene Cohen (no relation to Jundo!) was a priest and teacher in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage and she practiced for numerous years at Tassajara and other Zen centres. She spent most of her life as a lay woman, before ordaining in 1999. Darlene lived for a large part of her life with Rheumatoid Arthritis and her teachings reflect her practice in dealing with the pain and challenges of chronic, physical illness. She died in 2011 of ovarian cancer but her legacy and teachings live on.
Turning Suffering Inside Out is well known among both Zen Buddhists and those in the chronic illness community for Darlene’s immensely practical and down-to-earth approach to working with illness, and her humour and irreverence at times.
Please do join us for this read-along if this topic interests you at all, whether you or your loved ones have chronic illness or not. Darlene has a lot of wisdom to share either way, and this is a book for which I have a huge amount of fondness.
Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-
It is one that is worth having.
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