Perle Besserman & Manfred Steger 
Grassroots Zen [EPUB ebook] 
Community and Practice in the Twenty-First Century

CONTENTS

Introduction

TIME

So Come, So Gone

Don’t Be Used by the Twenty-Four Hours

Dwelling in Time

Right Timing

Just Killing Time

Hard Times, Big Changes

Trusting the Moment

Beyond Time

SPACE

Wrong Views

Right Views

Containing Multitudes

This Very Place

Living with Limitations

Sacred Space

The Middle Way

The Four Abodes

MOTION

Emotion

Spiritual Hunger

Everything Just Is

Striving and Persisting

Our Best Season

Forbearance

Self-Improvement vs. Self-Realization

Passion in Compassion

ASPIRATION

Home

Family

Health and Sickness

Death

Perle Besserman is the award-winning author of numerous works of fiction and creative nonfiction, including several books on spirituality that were praised by Isaac Bashevis Singer for their “clarity and feeling for mystic lore” and by Publishers Weekly for the “wisdom [that] points to a universal practice of the heart.” Besserman’s books have been translated into over ten languages. She holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and, together with Manfred Steger, is founding co-teacher of the Princeton Area Zen Group in Princeton, New Jersey.

Manfred B. Steger is the founding teacher of the Princeton Area Zen Group. (www.princetonzengroup.org). He and his wife Perle Besserman are deeply dedicated to the cultivation of a Western-style lay practice that maintains the essential elements of Zen—sitting meditation, interviews with a teacher, and silent retreats. A professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa and Honorary Professor of Global Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, Steger has written or edited twenty books on politics, history, and religion, including the bestselling
Globalization: A Very Short Introduction.

Manfred and Perle divide their time between Princeton, Melbourne, and Honolulu.