{"product_id":"a-jewish-mother-in-shangri-la","title":"A Jewish Mother in Shangri-la","description":"\u003cp\u003eA  current joke tells of a middle-aged Jewish woman who treks to the Himalayas to  seek an audience with a guru sitting in seclusion on a mountaintop. When at  last she comes before him, she implores: \"Sheldon, come home!\"  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       Rosie  Rosenzweig is that woman—but in real life, the story has a different  ending. Instead of asking her Buddhist son, Ben, to come home, Rosie accepts  his invitation to learn about Buddhism firsthand. Together they visit retreat  centers around the world and meet leading meditation masters who are Ben's  gurus: Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and Tibetan lamas Tulku Urgyen  Rinpoche and Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche. While struggling to come to terms with  Ben's choice of a spiritual path so different from everything that she  cherishes, Rosie finds that she is learning more about herself than she  anticipated.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       The  adventures Rosie recounts take her from the suburbs of Boston to a Zen  hermitage in France, an enclave of Tibetan Buddhists in Nepal, and finally to  her own spiritual home in Jerusalem. Whether she is learning to practice  mindfulness meditation, sharing a cup of tea with a Zen master, or worried  about bowing down to idols, Rosie is intent in her quest to find common ground  between two ancient traditions, to make peace with her son, and to find a way  to her own authentic experience of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shambhala","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47854412759129,"sku":"9781570624599","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":47854412791897,"sku":"9780834826342","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.shambhala.com\/products\/a-jewish-mother-in-shangri-la","provider":"Shambhala Publications","version":"1.0","type":"link"}