James I Ford

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…

By James I Ford

Oct 17, 2012

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