Geri Larkin

The Chocolate Cake Sutra

Ingredients for a Sweet Life

Talking Points

GERI LARKIN gave up a successful career as a management consultant to become a Buddhist priest. A practicing Buddhist since 1988, she completed seminary and was ordained in 1995, at which point she decided to start a Zen meditation center in the heart of innercity Detroit. She is the author of Stumbling Toward Enlightenment, Building a Business the Buddhist Way, Tap Dancing in Zen, First You Shave Your Head, and The Stillpoint Dhamapada. A Zen Buddhist “Guiding Teacher,” she currently lives near Seattle.

Description

A chocolate cake is the perfect metaphor for the delectable treats life has to offer if it is composed of the right ingredients—when the best aspects of a spiritual life converge, we simply live better.