Mindfulness Book Club: Fire Monks Noon

Actually 2 sections: noon to 12:40 & 6:30 PM to 7:10. Will run Mondays at these 2 times from Mon. Apr. 20 to June 15.
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Fire Monks is a thrilling read about Zen practice amid utmost danger. It was the San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year & the Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year in 2011. It's inexplicable that it has not become an A list movie. After the last evacuation left, 5 residents stayed to save Tassajara in its beautiful California mountain setting with the 2008 Basin Complex Fire speeding at it, eventually surrounding it unchecked. 5 people have disparate personalities, views from different levels of responsibility, different physical possibilities, & different reasons for risking their lives. They're in Rinzai Zen practice, but Dharma discussions are constant: materialism, the lives of others, one's own life, duties in their practice. A minute by minute WWBD? A review pointed out that another "priesthood" plays a great role in intermittent efforts with the residents, one just as dutiful & better equipped & trained for the circumstances. Wildlands firefighters have disparate levels of comfort with the facts which require them to ride away from this unlikely to succeed & seemingly deeply unwise effort. There's even a love story thread linking the 2 highly disciplined groups. Waiting to be a major motion picture, all right. Plan your timing! Once started, it can't be put down.
The bookclub will follow Thich Nhat Hanh's guidelines for Mindful Speech