Name: Barbara Rhodes' COMPOSTING OUR KARMA In-Store Event
Start: 2025-01-15T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-01-15T20:30:00-08:00
Location: Mrs Dalloway's

Barbara Rhodes' COMPOSTING OUR KARMA In-Store Event

One of the first women teachers in American Buddhism shares her down-to-earth wisdom for anyone interested in the core teachings of Zen
About this Event

Join us at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore on January 15th, 2025 when Bay Area author Barbara Rhodes comes to the store to share her new book Composting Our Karma: Turning Confusion Into Lessons for Awakening Our Innate Wisdom. Barbara will sign copies of her book after the presentation.

Click Here to preorder a copy of Composting Our Karma .

Engaging teachings on the core Korean Zen practice of “don’t-know mind” that encourage us to cultivate and apply a clear mind, improve our intuition, feel naturally at ease, and generate compassionate wisdom to face whatever arises.

Barbara Rhodes (Zen Master Soeng Hyang) offers the core Korean Zen teaching of don’t-know mind as an antidote to the over-thinking, overly stimulating modern world that is the cause of so much suffering. In this collection of essays, Rhodes shows us that there are ways we can work with, or “compost,” whatever we’ve got in front of us, digest it into energy that can get us through the rough times, and cultivate a satisfying life.

“Don’t-know mind,” Korean Zen’s foremost teaching, points to our clear enlightened mind before suffering arises based on concepts and judgments of like and dislike. While simple, it is a lifelong exercise, with immediate benefits that get deeper with practice. By applying don’t-know mind to meditation, everyday existence, and life’s challenges, readers will learn to work with their own mind’s reactions to things; trust their intuition; perceive situations clearly; and act with natural courage, compassion, and enthusiasm.

Rhodes offers fascinating insights from her professional life as a nurse; her commitment to engaged Buddhism; her life experience as a member of the LGBTQ community; her use of psychedelics on her spiritual path; and more. Readers will appreciate her down-to-earth wisdom, compassion, enthusiasm, and faith in the power of this practice.

Based in Richmond, California, BARBARA RHODES is the School Zen Master of the Kwan Um School of Zen, a longtime Buddhist practitioner and teacher, and a retired hospice nurse.