Zen Peacemakers International (ZPI) Journal Article
By Stephen Billias More than twenty-five years ago, I wrote The American Book of the Dead, a black comedy about World War III. The main character, Bertie Rupp, suffers from nucleomituphobia, the exaggerated fear of being blown up by nuclear weapons. A monk tells Bertie: “In the words of the great Yasutani-roshi of Japan, ‘Become one […]