Product Description
by Eido Frances Carney (Editor), Patricia Dai Bennage (Author)
Twenty-five leading American teachers of Soto Zen Buddhism speak to all who have suffered and sought spiritual guidance, revealing personal stories of sickness, death, political anger, fear, jealousy, environmental corruption, disillusionment, and longing for peace. They offer insight to how to stand with poise through the woes of existence and emerge transformed by our suffering. The transformative nature of Zen practice gives strength to face all possibilities. The entire book wears the mantle of Kanzeon, the goddess of mercy, the one who hears the cries of suffering and offers the loving hand of compassion to all living beings.
Author Biography
Patricia Dai-En Bennage, abbess emerita, Mt. Equity Zendo, Jihoji, formerly in Muncy, Pennsylvania, trained in Japan at the Aichi Semmon Nisodo in Nagoya for eleven years, with angos later at Hosshinji, Hokyoji, and Koshoji. She is the translator of Zen Seeds written by the Abbess Shundo Aoyama of the Aichi Semmon Nisodo. Dai-En graduated from Sophia University, Tokyo, in 1972. She trained with the Rinzai master Omori Sogen Roshi for three years. On the Shikoku eighty-eight-temple pilgrimage, she met her teacher, Noda Daito Roshi, and after ordination in 1979, she was sent to the Aichi Semmon Nisodo. She graduated from Shike training in Kyoto in 1989, and returned to Pennsylvania to pioneer Mt. Equity Zendo. She also led zazen at Bucknell University and at six federal prisons. Dai-En was recognized by the International Women's Day Outstanding Women in Buddhism Awards given in Bangkok in 2008 for Outstanding Contribution to Buddhism.
