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"This book will turn your conception of Zen inside out.

Such awareness is crucial for the development of contemporary Western Zen." -Taigen Dan Leighton, author of Faces of Compassion and Just This Is It Zenju speaks in deeply personal rather than theoretical terms about the underlying shamanic reality of Zen practice. This valuable book includes helpful guidance, such as her discussion of the shamanic quality of Zen chanting.

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel’s experiences of indigenous African, Caribbean, and Native American shamanic practice illuminate her descriptions of the inner value of Zen ceremonies, spaces, and invoking of spiritual ancestors. "The root texts of Buddhism and Zen from India, China, Korea, and Japan offer many expressions of their ground as earth wisdom. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel rattles the bones to offer the lineage of those who have come before us, manifesting those absent through vision and voice." -Duncan Ryūken Williams, author of American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War "The skin, flesh, bones, and marrow of the transmission of Dharma from the Ancestors express words and beyond words open up Buddha lands vast empty ordinariness and just a bow coming and going. Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel’s gift to practitioners is to return all of us to the great beauty of practice and the mystery of ceremony through the shining lens of the ancient practice of shamanism." -Joan Halifax, author of Standing at the Edge and Being with Dying

"This extraordinary book, rich in content and feeling, is a revelation on Buddhism’s secret life source and the ineffable power of ritual.