He tries to make some sense of the hatred that has often defined his life and came close to ruining his life. To him, prison is really a place ruled by hatred - it's awash with stories of hurt and tribes of victims who have kind of inflicted their victimhood on other people. "In this collection of essays, he tells his own story and that of other damaged men within prison. He mulls over the notion of the force and the violence of a crowbar versus meditating your way back to a calmness. The title A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden refers to a very specific rusted-out crowbar he finds in this meditation garden at a prison he was in outside Victoria. He died in 2018 after spending much of his life in prison. "I've been wanting to read some of Stephen Reid's work for a while. Stephen Reid was an author and convict from Victoria, B.
"Kohn really was taken aback by the fact that she found herself slipping into this anger - as she put it: 'swimming in hate' - whether it was on Twitter where lots of people troll her or in her day-to-day life as a citizen. It startled her and so she really want to kind of understand how hatred gets ramped up in our society, in other countries and in America."Ī Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden by Stephen Reid It's a very charged time and there are a lot of horrible experiments going on there - pushing things further and further towards animosity. Other countries are gone right off the rails and I don't think anyone can pat themselves on the back and say we won't be an exception. "I actually get quite anxious about what's going on in America and where it might be going. The title of the book intrigued me: What is the opposite of hate? She's a liberal but was welcomed into conservative cable news outlets, at least in the days when they still welcomed liberals on those shows. Sally Kohn is an American author and political commentator.
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