The Barn at the End of the World The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd |
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| Author:
| O'Reilley, Mary Rose |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57131-926-5 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2014 |
| Publisher: | Milkweed Editions
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $2.99 |
Book Description:
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Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O'Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France, where she studied with Thich N'hat Hanh. She seeks, in both barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in "climbing out of the body" but rather in existing fully in the world.
Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O'Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France, where she studied with Thich N'hat Hanh. She seeks, in both barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in "climbing out of the body" but rather in existing fully in the world.