{"product_id":"2940150286795","title":"The Kingdom and the Way: Meditations on the Kingdom of God","description":"These meditations are based on a little book I wrote for myself during 1986-87, not long after we had moved to the tantric Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was teaching there, high in the Himalayas, in a primitive and impoverished elementary school. That first year my husband and l were the only Quakers present. We worshipped with a group of evangelical Christian missionaries. I did not question the reality of their own inward experience of what they called Jesus Christ, but I found I could not accept their theologies or concepts of salvation. I could not accept that the gentle Buddhists around me were condemned to eternal torture because they did not affirm “Jesus Christ as their personal saviour.” Indeed, I found much in the Bhutanese compassionate concern for all creatures, and in the teachings of their Lord Buddha, that for me confirmed the way of Jesus. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo I turned to the gospels and the words of Jesus himself for the affirmation of what, by now, I knew experientially to be the rocks upon which my own life could be built: the reality of this inward kingdom and the way of which he spoke. His words did not become a barrier between myself and the Buddhist friends I so much loved; but rather, they became a bridge between the fundamental truths in their experience and in my own. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pendle Hill Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101944627440,"sku":"2940150286795","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150286795_p0.jpg?v=1763742131","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150286795","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}