Untangling Karma: Intimate Zen Stories on Healing Trauma - Paperback

by Judith Ragir (Author)

• Author has been studying and practicing Zen for nearly 50 years. She's been a guiding teaching at the Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul for nine years.


• Author is very well connected to the Zen community nationally and has garnered to drawer blurbs from bestselling authors such as Natalie Goldberg and Norman Fischer


• Unlike most books on Zen, Untangling Karma uses teaching stories from real life that are alternately personal, collective, intimate, and universal. In many of them, Judith Ragir takes off the burdensome mantle of the calm Zen teacher and shows what she has actually done to find more inner peace.

Author Biography

Judith Ragir is a Dharma teacher in the Zen lineage of Katagiri Roshi. She cofounded Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she was the Guiding Teacher for nine years and is currently Senior Dharma Teacher Emeritus. An accomplished artist, Ragir dedicates her quilting and calligraphic work to the exploration of Zen. Her short pieces have appeared in many anthologies, including Zen Teachings in Challenging Times, The Hidden Lamp, The Path of Compassion, and Receiving the Marrow. She Lives in Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota.