{"product_id":"home-is-here-practicing-antiracism-with-the-engaged-eightfold-path-9781623179045","title":"Home Is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold Path","description":"\u003cb\u003eA guide to living the Engaged Four Noble Truths: antiracist practices for wholeness, healing, and collective liberation. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For readers of \u003ci\u003eBe the Refuge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Tenderness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove and Rage, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Radical Dharma.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome is Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e builds on foundational Buddhist teachings--the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path--offering an intersectional frame to help you embody antiracist practices and tend to your own healing under racism and oppression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrounded in practice, memoir, and mindful self-help skill-building, Rev. Liên Shutt's Engaged Four Noble Truths illuminate a path toward healing and liberation. She shares her own experiences with anti-Asian hate--as a teen riding her bike, meditating in whitewashed monasteries--and asks, \u003ci\u003ewhat does it mean to attend to our suffering in body, heart, and mind when racism can cause such intense hurt and pain? \u003c\/i\u003eWhat does it look like to heal? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile written mainly for Asian American Buddhists and other BIPOC practitioners, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHome is Here\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e moves us all from knowing and contemplation to a place of action and wholeness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn\u003c\/i\u003e the doing is the realization, and in practicing antiracism, we build a home for all beings. This is reflected in Rev. Shutt's choice to frame each step of the Engaged Eightfold Path not as \"right\" but as \"skillful\"--to convey both the knowing \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e the practices essential to healing harm. In this way: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSkillful view\u003c\/i\u003e helps us understand and unpack the layers of our racial conditioning within systemic white supremacy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSkillful motivation\u003c\/i\u003e allows us to understand our agency and align our actions with wholeness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSkillful effort\u003c\/i\u003e guides us when working through difficult or triggering situations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSkillful speech\u003c\/i\u003e helps us communicate wholly truthfully, even (and especially) when navigating challenging conversations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn engaged reframing of core Buddhist spiritual principles, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHome is Here\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e connects foundational practices to urgent causes--and invites readers on a path home to wholeness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e North Atlantic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623179045\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Li\u0026#234;n Shutt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42925120192693,"sku":"9781623179045","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e2423f97-f820-460b-9811-ca05be415dcb.jpg?v=1687845902","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/home-is-here-practicing-antiracism-with-the-engaged-eightfold-path-9781623179045","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}