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Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist — One Woman's Spiritual Journey
Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist — One Woman's Spiritual Journey
Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist — One Woman's Spiritual Journey
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Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist — One Woman's Spiritual Journey

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Jan Willis is not Baptist or Buddhist. She is simply both. Dreaming Me is the story of her life, as a child growing up in the Jim Crow South, dealing with racism in an Ivy League college, and becoming involved with the Black Panther Party. But it wasn't until meeting Lama Yeshe, a Tibetan Buddhist monk living in the mountains of Nepal, that she realized who the real Jan Willis was, and how to make the most of the life she was living.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 25, 2012
ISBN9780861718368
Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist — One Woman's Spiritual Journey

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    Depth, substance and heart.I like Jan Willis' spiritual autobiography for the way it combines dreams, a chronological account of a life, and an account of spiritual growth and focus as a source of strength. I call it spiritual because Willis' focus on the issues that drive her - her intelligence that separates her from her community, her anger at the way blacks are treated by whites, and her love for and by her family & community permeate the book, call her to keep seeking and lead her to teach.I love the way she uses her repeating dreams of lions to introduce sections of the book, thus giving story and mystery importance.Chronologically, Willis grew up in Alabama (her father worked in a steel mill), graduating from high school in the mid 1960s. She attends college at Cornell University in new York, where she participates in a study abroad program in India and meets Tibetans there. She's also involved in campus politics, and upon graduation in 1969 is faced with a difficult choice: whether to join the Black Panther party or return go abroad to study in Nepal at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery.The results of this choice, her study, and her return to the US to teach form the remainder of the book. I find Jan Willis a courageous and inspiring woman because she faces external and internal obstacles and continues to grow and learn.

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