You Are Not Your Fault and Other Revelations The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Wes Scoop Nisker

by Nisker, Wes Scoop

• ISBN13: 9781593766399
• ISBN10: 1593766394
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-03-15
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

Wes “Scoop” Nisker is an award-winning broadcast journalist and commentator, a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher, a best selling author and a captivating performer. In How to be an Earthling, Wes draws on his diverse experiences delivering a collection that brims with the insight, humor and wisdom he is famous for.

Compiling for the first time, Wes’ best known essays as well as a selection of recent and never before published work, Wes takes readers on both a cultural journey (a tour through the sixties, through the modern environmental movement, the surge of Buddhism to the West) and a more personal one, exploring the motivation behind humanity’s search for spiritual enlightenment.

Author Biography

Wes “Scoop” Nisker, is the author of the enduring classic Crazy Wisdom and the widely acclaimed Buddha’s Nature. He is the editor of the Buddhist journal Inquiring Mind. An enduring San Francisco celebrity, having been on Bay Area radio for more than twenty-five years, Nisker is a teacher of Buddhist meditation and philosophy, and is located prominently in the group of our country’s most influential voices of spiritual transformation. He lives in Berkeley.