Razor-Wire Dharma: a Buddhist Life in Prison
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Calvin Malone is nearing the end of a 20-year prison sentence. He's also a practicing Buddhist. Oddly enough, it was in prison that Malone learned about Buddhism, and it's the one thing that's kept him going. Some of the stories he tells in Razor-Wire Dharma are hilarious, some are harrowing, but all express Buddhist wisdom as vividly as any practitioner could hope to do. This is true Buddhism: Malone is living it, and in the unlikeliest of places. For him, the choice between staying true to hi…
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- Full title :Razor-Wire Dharma : a Buddhist Life in Prison.
Summary
Calvin Malone is nearing the end of a 20-year prison sentence. He's also a practicing Buddhist. Oddly enough, it was in prison that Malone learned about Buddhism, and it's the one thing that's kept him going. Some of the stories he tells in Razor-Wire Dharma are hilarious, some are harrowing, but all express Buddhist wisdom as vividly as any practitioner could hope to do. This is true Buddhism: Malone is living it, and in the unlikeliest of places. For him, the choice between staying true to his principles of altruism, compassion, and nonharming -- or just choosing to cast a blind eye -- often requires that he quite literally jeopardize life, limb, and the few small comforts available to him to try to do what's right. If he can do it in jail, he can do it anywhere. And as his book in all its gritty beauty makes clear, so can we.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wisdom Publications
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (224)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1282727613, 9781282727618
- oclc:ocn729016667
- LC Classification:BQ4580.P75
- Dewey Decimal:294.344092
Table of Contents
Cover13; -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Entering the Way -- The Abyss -- Eyeball -- Banana -- Forty-Nine -- Bulldog and Christmas -- A Little Closer to Home -- Essential Oil -- Anger -- Getting Involved -- Derrick -- Soup -- Munny -- The Reluctant Zen Master -- Tying Flies -- Apple -- Hacksaw -- Shawn -- Artichoke Heart -- Metta -- Freedom -- A Close Encounter -- Letting Go -- Happy Holidays -- Miracles -- Liberating Our Gardens -- Postscripts -- Authors Note -- I. The Four Noble Truths -- II. Meditation -- III. Recommended Reading -- IV. Resource Guide -- About the Author.
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