Putting Pen to Palm Leaf: Buddhism and Literature Series

Drawing on her own novels, her Zen practice and Buddhist texts, Ozeki will discuss some of the ways in which autobiographical narrative fiction might function as praxis—a way of observing, interrogating and deconstructing the “self” to perform, or act out, core Zen teachings of no-self, emptiness and depended co-arising.


KonMari Newsletter: Embracing the Time Being

“It’s precisely because we are all so intimately interconnected that we can create collective change by changing ourselves. Marie talks about how, by tidying your own room, you will set off a chain reaction, and others in your house will begin to tidy, too. This is true for other qualities, like kindness and compassion and environmental awareness. We clean up our own act first. We do our best to inspire—quietly, patiently, and by example—knowing that we will keep trying no matter what.”
— Ruth Ozeki

The Washington Post Podcast: Other: Mixed Race in America

“The privacy that reading fiction gave me, that sense of solitude [while] also being in company [of] another mind was...very important to me, and very precious. From a very early age, I wanted to do that. I wanted to make that same kind of magic happen.”
— Ruth Ozeki

May 5, 2017
The Washington Post, Alexandra Laughlin
How Ruth Ozeki Renamed Herself
Other: Mixed Race in America Podcast