Ellen Jikai Birx

About The Author

Ellen Birx has a PhD in psychiatric nursing and for the past twenty-seven years has been a professor at Radford University. She is a Zen teacher and cofounder of New River Zen Community and a member of the White Plum Asanga and the American Zen Teachers Association. She is the author of Healing Zen and the coauthor, along with her husband, of Waking Up Together. She lives in Radford, VA.

Books by Ellen Jikai Birx

Selfless Love

Beyond the Boundaries of Self and Other

By Ellen Jikai Birx
Selfless Love shows how meditation can help us realize that we don’t love—we are love.
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Waking Up Together

Intimate Partnership on the Spiritual Path

By Ellen Jikai Birx and Charles Shinkai Birx
Waking Up Together is written for those who want to journey to new depths of intimacy, both spiritually and in their love relationship. The book shows how a committed, long-term relationship can enhance spiritual development and how relationships can be transformed by spiritual practice. Written ...
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