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An
old joke tells of a Jewish woman who treks to the Himalayas to seek an audience
with a guru sitting in seclusion on a mountaintop. When at last she comes
before him, she implores: "Sheldon, come home!"
Rosie
Rosenzweig became that Jewish mother—but in real life, the story has a
different ending. Instead of asking her Buddhist son, Ben, to come home, Rosie
accepts his invitation to find out about Buddhism firsthand. Together they
visit retreat centers in Europe and Asia and meet leading meditation masters
who are Ben's gurus: Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and Tibetan lamas Tulku
Urgyen Rinpoche and Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche. While struggling to come to
terms with Ben's choice of a spiritual path so different from everything that
she cherishes, Rosie finds that she is learning more about herself than she
anticipated.
The
adventures of Rosie recounts take her from her Boston suburb to a Zen hermitage
in France, an enclave of Tibetan Buddhists in Nepal, and finally to her own
spiritual home in Jerusalem. Whether she is practicing mindfulness meditation,
sharing a cup of tea with a Zen master, or worrying about bowing down to idols,
Rosie is intent in her quest to find common ground between two ancient
traditions, to deepen her understanding of her son, and to find a way to her
own authentic experience of truth. Hers is a mission of peace that seeks to
build a bridge of understanding between cultures and faiths while remaining
true to her own Jewish identity.
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An
old joke tells of a Jewish woman who treks to the Himalayas to seek an audience
with a guru sitting in seclusion on a mountaintop....