Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM

Dharma Talk: 10:30 AM

Speaker:  Paula Arai (Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, Harvard University)

Dharma Talk

Zen Healing: Stories and Tips from Everyday Life

Paula Arai (Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, Harvard University) holds the Eshinni & Kakushinni Chair of Women and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. She is author of Women Living Zen, Bringing Zen Home, Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra, and The Little Book of Zen Healing: Japanese Rituals for Beauty, Harmony, and Love. Her current project is: Of Lotuses and Mud: Women Liberating Dharma. Steeped in ethnographic research, she takes an embodied approach to her work and finds poetic immersive storytelling a potent medium for conveying the experiences of transformative healing she researches. An active public speaker, Arai also leads workshops on healing rituals. Website: Zenhealing.org