Peter Coyote is an award-winning actor, narrator, and teacher. Recognized for his narration work, he narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century, winning an Emmy Award, as well as eleven Ken Burns documentaries, including The Roosevelts, for which he won a second Emmy. A Zen student since 1974, in 2011 he was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest and in 2015 received “transmission” from his teacher, making him an independent Zen teacher. The author of Sleeping Where I Fall, The Rainman’s Third Cure, and Tongue of a Crow as well as The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet Buddha, he lives in northern California.

• Foreword by Lewis Richmond PART I What the Buddha Taught Introduction: Orientation 1 The Four Noble Truths: Dukkha 2 The Four Noble Truths: Samudaya 3 The Four Noble Truths: Nirodha 4 The Four Noble Truths: Marga, the Eightfold Path 5 Marga Part II 6 An Introduction to the Precepts 7 The Precepts Part IIThings as It Is Introduction: Infusing the Ordinary 8 What Is This Thing We Call the Self? 9 Form and Ceremony 10 Emptiness and the Heart Sutra 11 Enlightenment: Seeing the Unseen 12 Believing in Nothing 13 The Three Treasures: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha 14 The Role of Faith in Buddhist Practice 15 On Time: Host and Guest 16 Fuketsu’s Speck of Dust PART III Engaged with Vernacular Zen Introduction: Flashing in the Dark 17 On Anxiety 18 On Busyness 19 Wild Body, Wild Mind 20 Misunderstanding Emptiness 21 Values Not Embodied in Behavior Do Not Exist 22 Karma 23 On Loss: Issa’s “And Yet . . .” 24 Contradictions 25 Buddhist Anarchism Acknowledgments Annotated Bibliography of Further Reading

“This stimulating book is a truly American take on life, politics and social issues through the lens of a contemporary interpretation of Zen Buddhism. If that is your interest, this book is for you. Don't miss it.”

Peter Coyote is an award-winning actor, narrator, and teacher. Recognized for his narration work, he narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century, winning an Emmy Award, as well as eleven Ken Burns documentaries, including The Roosevelts, for which he won a second Emmy. A Zen student since 1974, in 2011 he was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest and in 2015 received “transmission” from his teacher, making him an independent Zen teacher. The author of Sleeping Where I Fall, The Rainman’s Third Cure, and Tongue of a Crow as well as The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet Buddha, he lives in northern California.

• Foreword by Lewis Richmond PART I What the Buddha Taught Introduction: Orientation 1 The Four Noble Truths: Dukkha 2 The Four Noble Truths: Samudaya 3 The Four Noble Truths: Nirodha 4 The Four Noble Truths: Marga, the Eightfold Path 5 Marga Part II 6 An Introduction to the Precepts 7 The Precepts Part IIThings as It Is Introduction: Infusing the Ordinary 8 What Is This Thing We Call the Self? 9 Form and Ceremony 10 Emptiness and the Heart Sutra 11 Enlightenment: Seeing the Unseen 12 Believing in Nothing 13 The Three Treasures: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha 14 The Role of Faith in Buddhist Practice 15 On Time: Host and Guest 16 Fuketsu’s Speck of Dust PART III Engaged with Vernacular Zen Introduction: Flashing in the Dark 17 On Anxiety 18 On Busyness 19 Wild Body, Wild Mind 20 Misunderstanding Emptiness 21 Values Not Embodied in Behavior Do Not Exist 22 Karma 23 On Loss: Issa’s “And Yet . . .” 24 Contradictions 25 Buddhist Anarchism Acknowledgments Annotated Bibliography of Further Reading

“This stimulating book is a truly American take on life, politics and social issues through the lens of a contemporary interpretation of Zen Buddhism. If that is your interest, this book is for you. Don't miss it.”

Peter Coyote is an award-winning actor, narrator, and teacher. Recognized for his narration work, he narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century, winning an Emmy Award, as well as eleven Ken Burns documentaries, including The Roosevelts, for which he won a second Emmy. A Zen student since 1974, in 2011 he was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest and in 2015 received “transmission” from his teacher, making him an independent Zen teacher. The author of Sleeping Where I Fall, The Rainman’s Third Cure, and Tongue of a Crow as well as The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet Buddha, he lives in northern California.

• Foreword by Lewis Richmond PART I What the Buddha Taught Introduction: Orientation 1 The Four Noble Truths: Dukkha 2 The Four Noble Truths: Samudaya 3 The Four Noble Truths: Nirodha 4 The Four Noble Truths: Marga, the Eightfold Path 5 Marga Part II 6 An Introduction to the Precepts 7 The Precepts Part IIThings as It Is Introduction: Infusing the Ordinary 8 What Is This Thing We Call the Self? 9 Form and Ceremony 10 Emptiness and the Heart Sutra 11 Enlightenment: Seeing the Unseen 12 Believing in Nothing 13 The Three Treasures: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha 14 The Role of Faith in Buddhist Practice 15 On Time: Host and Guest 16 Fuketsu’s Speck of Dust PART III Engaged with Vernacular Zen Introduction: Flashing in the Dark 17 On Anxiety 18 On Busyness 19 Wild Body, Wild Mind 20 Misunderstanding Emptiness 21 Values Not Embodied in Behavior Do Not Exist 22 Karma 23 On Loss: Issa’s “And Yet . . .” 24 Contradictions 25 Buddhist Anarchism Acknowledgments Annotated Bibliography of Further Reading

“This stimulating book is a truly American take on life, politics and social issues through the lens of a contemporary interpretation of Zen Buddhism. If that is your interest, this book is for you. Don't miss it.”