RAZOR-WIRE DHARMA

Razor-Wire Dharma is an eloquent, enlightening, and utterly inspiring personal story of how one man found Buddhism—and real, transformative meaning—despite being in one of the world's harshest environments.

Some of these stories are hilarious, some are harrowing, but all express Buddhist wisdom as vividly as any practitioner could hope to do—in the unlikeliest of places. In prison, the choice of staying true to principles often requires jeopardizing life, safety, and the few small comforts available to try to do what's right.

March 2008: The media reports that "for the first time ever, more than one in every 100 American adults are in jail or prison." Anyone can see the system isn't working.

But Calvin Malone has plenty to teach us all about ideas that we rarely associate with the penal system: Dignity, Compassion, Freedom behind bars. He speaks from experience - Malone is nearing the end of a 20-year prison sentence himself.

FREIGANG
Warum es sich lohnt, unter allen Umstaenden Buddhist zu sein
Deutsch von Rainer Scholz
[PB: Aurum 9/2011]