Composting Our Karma

Turning Confusion into Lessons for Awakening Our Innate Wisdom

Author  Barbara Rhodes Foreword by  Richard Shrobe Edited by  Elizabeth S. R. Goldstein Afterword by  Dae Bong
Composting Our Karma

Engaging teachings on the core Korean Zen practice  of “don’t-know mind” that encourage us to cultivate and apply a clear mind, improve our intuition, feel naturally at ease, and generate compassionate wisdom to face whatever arises.

​​Barbara Rhodes (Zen Master Soeng Hyang) offers the core Korean Zen teaching of don’t-know mind as an antidote to the over-thinking, overly stimulating modern world that is the cause of so much suffering. In this collection of essays, Rhodes shows us that there are ways we can work with, or “compost,” whatever we’ve got in front of us, digest it into energy that can get us through the rough times, and cultivate a satisfying life.
      “Don’t-know mind,” Korean Zen’s foremost teaching, points to…