Being Love
Reverend Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
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What You’ll Learn:
- Discover the powerful shift of moving from being in love to being love
- Explore interconnection and love as coming from within
- Learn the 4 Paths of Being Love
- Hear an inspiring aspiration for all beings
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Born to parents who migrated from rural Louisiana, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, a dharma transmitted Zen Buddhist priest in the Suzuki Roshi lineage, is the author of The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender with a foreword by Buddhist scholar and novelist Charles Johnson (Wisdom Publications) and Tell Me Something About Buddhism (Hampton Roads Publishing) with a foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh. She is contributing author to many books, including Together We are One (Parallax), Dharma, Color and Culture: Voices From Western Buddhist Teachers of Color (Parallax) and Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women (Wisdom Publications). Learn more at her website: zenju.org.
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Thank you. I find such peace in sitting with the sense of “being love”. ….simple, and profound. I add it to my mantras.
I appreciate this talk so much. It is a long, long journey to soak in and express these teachings… glad to be on the path with you!
Amazing! Thank you, thank you
Beautiful! So many wise words and feelings to consider. I love the idea of one moment at a time.
The words at the end were very moving and it was lovely to hear such a real and authentic talk. Thank you!
wonderful – thank you Zenju Earthlyn Manuel!
the final words (dedication of merit) brought tears into my eyes and is giving me so much courage.
deep gratitude.
Deep bow
I feel peaceful listening to you tell the truth. Thank you, Reverend.
So beautiful. Much to reflect on in my relationship to self and others.
Tears in my eyes as I sit having listened to Reverned Zenju; so beautiful her words, I don’t know how to respond. I had an experience once where in a moment I knew that I didn’t know what love was, what I did know was that what I thought I felt wasn’t love. This has been such an inspiring talk…such an open talk. I wrote down words while listening that touched me…like “teachings can’t be accomplished” and I recognized that I hold this view as if somehow I can accomplish a teaching, I can arrived at it and then say wow, I got that one. No, I don’t arrive…I am always traveling the path. That we are all born in love and what does that mean to me…yes, I was held in love, and then…. so very much to contemplate. And I feel full having heard these words. Thank you, thank you.
It not easy to see all the effort that was put into this seminar and then make some critical statement about the content or the difference between the communication of one teacher or another but I feel it would have been better to address the issues of infidelity and dishonesty that can be the problem in a relationship.
You cannot give love. All you can do is BE love.
“Be love” instead of “give love” is helpful to me. As caregiver to a mother who struggled (and failed) to express nurturing, tender love to me as a child, I too feel a deficiency if I objectify love and think of it as something to try to ‘get’ and ‘hold onto’ in order to have some to give away. Thank you for this teaching. There was a lot for me to think about and I feel encouraged about expressing love in all my relationships.