I'm excited to have virtual visit by Bakurin Judith Ragir from the Clouds and Water Zen Center in Minneapolis. Judith will be give the talk on at our weekly Thursday evening practice about her new book Untangling Karma: Intimate Zen Stories on Healing Trauma.

Judith is Eko Jeff Kelley's teacher and someone I've been looking forward to learning with for some time. Below is a note from noted Zen writing teacher Natalie Goldberg about her book.

Please join us in person at BUF or online on Zoom. 

-Nomon Tim

“Judith Ragir, a Zen teacher, a mom, a Jew, a sexual assault survivor, splits open her heart and fearlessly pours out the hate, internalized anti-Semitism, and unquestioned rule-following that blocks her love. This book is at once a love letter to Zen practice and a critique of late twentieth century American Zen. Judith inspires us to investigate our own karmic knots, and in the middle of this suffering, she invites us to walk quietly down the backyard steps to the neighborhood pond and take a cooling dip in the moonlight.” —Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones, Long Quiet Highway, Three Simple Lines, and many other books