Zen as a Way of Magical Realism
Awakening is always like finding a poem.
James Ishmael Ford
James Ishmael Ford is a Zen teacher and a Unitarian Universalist minister-emeritus. He has authored several books, including Zen at the End of Religion: An Introduction for the Curious, the Skeptical, and the Spiritual but not Religious (2025) and The Intimate Way of Zen: Effort, Surrender, and Awakening on the Spiritual Journey (2024), and serves as the guiding teacher emeritus of the Empty Moon Sangha.
Finding the Ox’s Footprints
Leaving home, resistance, and love
If You’re Lucky, Your Heart Will Break: Field Notes from a Zen Life
Author and blogger James Ishmael Ford is a dually-appointed Unitarian Universalist minister and Soto Zen Priest. His newest book, If You’re Lucky, Your Heart Will Break: Field Notes from a Zen Life, was published by Wisdom…
Everything Necessary to Salvation
James I Ford speaks with Tricycle editors about the syncretism of Zen Buddhism and Western tradition and thought.
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