ROAD TO HEAVEN: Encounters with Chinese Hermits Bill PorterMercury House: San Francisco, 1993. 256 pp., $14.00 (paperback). Jeffrey Zaleski RINGING PHONES. Crying babies. Noisy neighbors. Car alarms. It’s the rare lay practitioner who hasn’t been yanked…
Buddhists cherish the idea that our fundamental nature, our buddha-nature, is universally compassionate; according to Western science, however, the nature that Nature gives us is anything but.