A.H. Haar’s Reviews > Women of the Way: Discovering 2500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom > Status Update

"So if that's what a monk is, she went on, rebirth as required, then what does it matter what a person wears? Hair, bare scalp, loincloth, robes! 'It doesn't matter!' she said. 'It doesn't matter, Mr. No Rank.' Instead, she and her husband, a man she'd known since she was quite young, opened a doughnut and pastry shop in Jingling."

"She dug in, worked like her meditation was a field, and stolidly plowed through. She had always known how to work. Not afraid of mistakes, she made a lot of them -- and by making them, progressed fast along a path that scares most of us in its first few steps. She didn't talk much at first. After a few years she began to roar."