{"product_id":"home-is-here-practicing-antiracism-with-the-engaged-eightfold-path-9781623179045","title":"Home Is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold Path","description":"\u003cb\u003eA guide to living the Engaged Four Noble Truths: antiracist practices for wholeness, healing, and collective liberation. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For readers of \u003ci\u003eBe the Refuge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Tenderness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove and Rage, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Radical Dharma.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome is Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e builds on foundational Buddhist teachings--the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path--offering an intersectional frame to help you embody antiracist practices and tend to your own healing under racism and oppression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrounded in practice, memoir, and mindful self-help skill-building, Rev. Liên Shutt's Engaged Four Noble Truths illuminate a path toward healing and liberation. She shares her own experiences with anti-Asian hate--as a teen riding her bike, meditating in whitewashed monasteries--and asks, \u003ci\u003ewhat does it mean to attend to our suffering in body, heart, and mind when racism can cause such intense hurt and pain? \u003c\/i\u003eWhat does it look like to heal? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile written mainly for Asian American Buddhists and other BIPOC practitioners, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHome is Here\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e moves us all from knowing and contemplation to a place of action and wholeness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn\u003c\/i\u003e the doing is the realization, and in practicing antiracism, we build a home for all beings. This is reflected in Rev. Shutt's choice to frame each step of the Engaged Eightfold Path not as \"right\" but as \"skillful\"--to convey both the knowing \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e the practices essential to healing harm. In this way: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSkillful view\u003c\/i\u003e helps us understand and unpack the layers of our racial conditioning within systemic white supremacy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSkillful motivation\u003c\/i\u003e allows us to understand our agency and align our actions with wholeness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSkillful effort\u003c\/i\u003e guides us when working through difficult or triggering situations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSkillful speech\u003c\/i\u003e helps us communicate wholly truthfully, even (and especially) when navigating challenging conversations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn engaged reframing of core Buddhist spiritual principles, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHome is Here\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e connects foundational practices to urgent causes--and invites readers on a path home to wholeness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRev. Liên Shutt is a recognized leader in the movement that breaks through the wall of American white-centered convert Buddhism to welcome people of all backgrounds into a contemporary, engaged Buddhism. As an ordained Zen priest, licensed social worker and longtime educator\/teacher of Buddhism, Shutt represents new leadership at the nexus of spirituality and social justice, offering a special warm welcome to Asian Americans, all BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, and others seeking a 'home' in the midst of North American society's reckoning around racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia. Shutt was a co-founder of Buddhists of Color in 1998 and founder of Access to Zen in 2014. As the creator, producer, and host, she is launching a podcast series Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Lama Karma Yeshe Chodron.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618536919314,"sku":"9781623179045","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eb82bc2b-a6cb-4344-bad5-6861553b5759.jpg?v=1732538059","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/home-is-here-practicing-antiracism-with-the-engaged-eightfold-path-9781623179045","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}