Sit. Walk. Write: Natalie Goldberg’s “The True Secret of Writing”*

Changing Hands Bookstore

Tempe, Arizona

March 21, 2013

I have a confession to make: when non-Asian first-world people use Buddhist philosophy as a guiding framework for understanding some random part of life, it feels pretentious to me. I guess it’s because I’ve never vibed emotionally with that particular school of thought. Intellectually, I understand what someone describing their practice is saying, and there’s nothing that feels false or wrong-headed in it. It’s just not my soul’s “way.” So...