Grace Schireson’s stories about her Zen journey-from child to grandmother-share deep insight about how we can find awareness, feel it in our bodies, and experience it wherever we are. We need to remove our ego’s clothing to truly see ourselves and the world as they are.

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This is a book that is both intimate and prophetic.” Read the full foreword here. “Filled with funny and startling stories, this book is also bursting with wisdom and has a special flavor of brave kindness. She wants us to recognize our innate wisdom and to actualize compassion that is not based on pity but on courage-the courage to look and the courage to see.

Brave and true, Roshi Grace pushes the reader to let go of the pretenses and pretending that shield us from who we really are. Her forthrightness, her strength, her humor, and her wisdom are threads that weave this marvelous book into a powerful tapestry of insight, inspiration, and teaching. “Buddhist women’s voices can tend to be subdued in and sometimes even absent from public conversation. From the foreword by Roshi Joan Halifax, author of Standing at the Edge

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