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Finding freedom : how death row broke and opened my heart / Jarvis Jay Masters ; foreword by Pema Chödrön.
LIBRA PS3563.A826 F56 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Masters, Jarvis Jay, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death row inmates.
- Prisoners' writings, American.
- California--San Quentin.
- Masters, Jarvis Jay, 1962-.
- Masters, Jarvis Jay.
- Prisoners' writings, American--California--San Quentin.
- Death row inmates--Literary collections.
- Prisoners--Literary collections.
- Prisoners.
- Prisons--Literary collections.
- Prisons.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Autobiographies.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 147 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado : Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2020.
- Summary:
- "There are many forms of liberation-some that exist at the mercy of circumstance and others that can never be taken away. In this collection of stories, essays, poems, and letters from death-row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters, he explores the meaning of true freedom on his road to inner peace through Buddhist practice. He reveals the life of a young man surrounded by violence, his entanglement in the criminal justice system, and-following an encounter with Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche-an unfolding commitment to nonviolence and peacemaking. At turns joyful, heartbreaking, frightening, and soaring with profound insight, Masters's story offers a vision of hope and the possibility of freedom in even the darkest of times"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: SANCTUARY
- Sanctuary
- Rats
- Little Black Sparrow
- Pablo's Wish
- The Man Who Talks to Himself
- A Reason to Live
- Fruitcakes
- Thirteen Sixty-Eight
- The Boneyard Visit
- Funny How Time Flies
- MOURNING EXERCISE
- Recipe for Prison Pruno
- When I First Got Charged
- Scars
- Me and My Sisters
- My Mother Died
- Mourning Exercise
- Dream
- I Open My Palms to the Sky
- Justice Marshall Resigns
- Bryan
- It's Become So Hard
- O. J.
- In My Recurrent Dream
- FINDING FREEDOM
- Night's Bright Stars
- For a Long Time
- Seeking Silence
- The Dalai Lama Hat
- San Quentin Is Really Rockin' `n' Rollin'
- The Empowerment Ceremony
- Understanding Impermanence
- Angry Faces
- Maxism
- Joe Bob
- Every Night Before I Go to Sleep
- Tylenol Prayer Beads
- Meditation Has Become
- Peace Activist
- I Was Walking
- Fourth of July
- Stop! A Buddhist Is Here!
- On the Question of Time
- Keeping Real.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781611809114
- 1611809118
- OCLC:
- 1141136410
- Publisher Number:
- 99985747404
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