Empty Branches: A Season of Zen

Zen teacher Bonnie Myotai Treace opens up a delicate but decisively powerful spiritual practice to readers. Those new to Buddhism as well as those long on the path will find these talks incredibly moving. Offering a challenge to the habitual way of going through our days, Empty Branches is a poetic and deep call to release whatever we're holding on to and find the freedom that is our birthright. *Discover how Zen can quiet and clarify your life. *Enter the simple spaciousness that enables suffering to dissipate. *Explore how the ancient stories of Zen (koans) can support more genuine encounters with one another, oneself, the earth, and all creatures.


About the Author
Bonnie Myotai Treace is a Zen Teacher and writer living with her family in Garrison, New York and Asheville, North Carolina. Her base is Gristmill Hermitage in Garrison, where she leads meditation and writing retreats, and does solitary work beside the mill pond. She was the first Dharma Successor of John Daido Loori, founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order. Myotai's life as a Zen priest, feminist, poetry professor, and (somewhat obsessive) animal lover informs her writing. Myotai is the author of Winter Moon: A Season of Zen Teachings and has contributed chapters to Lotus Moon: The Poetry of Rengetsu; Water: Its Spiritual Significance; The Art of Just Sitting; and The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women. You can follow Myotai Sensei's teaching and learn more at Hermitage Heart Zen on Facebook.