Finding Freedom How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart |
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| Author:
| Masters, Jarvis |
| Foreword by:
| Chodron, Pema |
| Introduction by:
| Chavis, Melody Ermachild |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61180-911-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2020 |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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A remarkable story of personal transformation and spiritual awakening from a Buddhist man on death row. There are many forms of liberation--some that exist at the mercy of circumstance and others that can never be taken away. In this collection of stories, essays, poems, and letters from death-row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters, he explores the meaning of true freedom on his road to inner peace through Buddhist practice. He reveals the life of a young man surrounded by...
More Description A remarkable story of personal transformation and spiritual awakening from a Buddhist man on death row.
There are many forms of liberation--some that exist at the mercy of circumstance and others that can never be taken away. In this collection of stories, essays, poems, and letters from death-row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters, he explores the meaning of true freedom on his road to inner peace through Buddhist practice. He reveals the life of a young man surrounded by violence, his entanglement in the criminal justice system, and--following an encounter with Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche--an unfolding commitment to nonviolence and peacemaking. At turns joyful, heartbreaking, frightening, and soaring with profound insight, Masters's story offers a vision of hope and the possibility of freedom in even the darkest of times.