When No Thing Works
A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse
by Norma Wong
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Pub Date Nov 05 2024 | Archive Date Nov 05 2024
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Description
Take a breath. Take a step.
In this time of collective acceleration—when institutions crumble, climate chaos intensifies, and polarization hardens hearts—Zen Rōshi and Native Hawaiian guide Norma Wong offers something different than solutions. She offers a way of being.
Part poetry, part strategy, part spiritual teaching, When No Thing Works reads like sitting with a wise friend who sees both the falling-apartness and what's arising. With stories that spiral and return, with humor that lightens without dismissing, Wong invites us to:
- Lift our gaze from urgent chaos to see the horizon beckoning
- Move from "I" to "we" through breaking bread, sipping tea, sharing stories
- Find the critical juncture (机) where change begins
- Practice the leaps that collective transformation requires—not alone, but as "one and one and one"
Rather than offering answers, Wong opens doorways—showing us how to be at the threshold between a devolving world and an emergent one, how to hear what cannot be heard, how to move in the slipstream of these times with both urgency and patience.
For those feeling the weight of "too much going much faster," for those seeking a different rhythm, for those ready to cocreate rather than merely resist—this book is invitation and companion.
"What we do with this, matters."
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Advance Praise
“This is no ordinary book—it is more of a koan, a dreamspace poem, a love letter to future descendants. It lives at the intersections of reflective political analysis about the pivotal, cleaving moment we are currently experiencing and future stories of ‘the world as we would have it be.’ With an expansive understanding of emergent worldview, strategy and practice, the author weaves a web of mutuality that inspires a more interconnected version of the future and ourselves.”
—TESSA HICKS PETERSON, associate professor of urban studies and coauthor of Practicing Liberation
“As we stand at the threshold of collapsing systems and broken hearts, there is an opening. In When No Thing Works, Roshi Norma Wong gives us a compass for how to navigate the space in between where we are coming from and where we are going. This book is an invitation to practice who we need to be to meet this moment and shape a future of possibility and potential.”
—KERRI KELLY, author of American Detox
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9798889840992 |
| PRICE | $17.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 208 |
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