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Between falling apart and coming together lies the threshold—step through with a Zen master's invitation to practice hope in chaotic times.

Take a breath. Take a step.

In this time of collective acceleration—when institutions crumble, climate chaos intensifies, and polarization hardens hearts—Zen Rōshi and Native Hawaiian guide Norma Wong offers something different than solutions. She offers a way of being.

Part poetry, part strategy, part spiritual teaching, When No Thing Works reads like sitting with a wise friend who sees both the falling-apartness and what's arising. With stories that spiral and return, with humor that lightens without dismissing, Wong invites us to:
- Lift our gaze from urgent chaos to see the horizon beckoning
- Move from I to we through breaking bread, sipping tea, sharing stories
- Find the critical juncture (机) where change begins
- Practice the leaps that collective transformation requires—not alone, but as one and one and one
Rather than offering answers, Wong opens doorways—showing us how to be at the threshold between a devolving world and an emergent one, how to hear what cannot be heard, how to move in the slipstream of these times with both urgency and patience.

For those feeling the weight of too much going much faster, for those seeking a different rhythm, for those ready to cocreate rather than merely resist—this book is invitation and companion.

What we do with this, matters.“This slender volume is a bountiful exhortation of the human spirit’s potential to unwind intractable challenges of our ‘collective acceleration,’ and a sharp knife that slices through wishful, lazy, or destructive machinations to get there.

Wong Rōshi’s unique confluence of locations, lineages, and experience are honed into a wisdom lens we can peer through to couple our Why and our Way. Like all great teachers, she imparts story and strategy with equal measures of humility, reminding us that how we be matters to how we become.

Lyrical, sure, and threaded with the deft insight and forgiving humor of a guide who knows how flawed we can be, Wong Rōshi offers not so much a map, but a strategic pointing to the constellation of choices and practices we can and must navigate to enter a slipstream into an ever-possible future, together.

This work is a triumph, and you can feel the thunderous dance of ancestors’—past and future—approval.”
—Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Rōshi, coauthor of Radical Dharma

“Norma Wong has been a compelling teacher in the realm of transformation for years—when I met her she was somehow one with the floor as several grownups tried with zero success to lift her up. I wanted to learn everything about that grounding. In this tight, engaging work, Norma is walking us through current events and possibilities, pointing out the actual currents, the questions, the timeplaces and emergent worldviews that most matter. This is deep, no-nonsense grounding, taught lightly, with invitation and humor and curiosity. Profound and embodied in each line . . . I know I will return to this text over and over. I join Norma on the path toward ‘interdependent thriving,’ toward a visionary spacetime that grows from the seeds of our practice in the here and now.”
—
Wong, Norma
ISBN: 9798889840992

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When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse

Between falling apart and coming together lies the threshold—step through with a Zen master's invitation to practice hope in chaotic times.

Take a breath. Take a step.

In this time of collective acceleration—when institutions crumble, climate chaos intensifies, and polarization hardens hearts—Zen Rōshi and Native Hawaiian guide Norma Wong offers something different than solutions. She offers a way of being.

Part poetry, part strategy, part spiritual teaching, When No Thing Works reads like sitting with a wise friend who sees both the falling-apartness and what's arising. With stories that spiral and return, with humor that lightens without dismissing, Wong invites us to:
- Lift our gaze from urgent chaos to see the horizon beckoning
- Move from I to we through breaking bread, sipping tea, sharing stories
- Find the critical juncture (机) where change begins
- Practice the leaps that collective transformation requires—not alone, but as one and one and one
Rather than offering answers, Wong opens doorways—showing us how to be at the threshold between a devolving world and an emergent one, how to hear what cannot be heard, how to move in the slipstream of these times with both urgency and patience.

For those feeling the weight of too much going much faster, for those seeking a different rhythm, for those ready to cocreate rather than merely resist—this book is invitation and companion.

What we do with this, matters.“This slender volume is a bountiful exhortation of the human spirit’s potential to unwind intractable challenges of our ‘collective acceleration,’ and a sharp knife that slices through wishful, lazy, or destructive machinations to get there.

Wong Rōshi’s unique confluence of locations, lineages, and experience are honed into a wisdom lens we can peer through to couple our Why and our Way. Like all great teachers, she imparts story and strategy with equal measures of humility, reminding us that how we be matters to how we become.

Lyrical, sure, and threaded with the deft insight and forgiving humor of a guide who knows how flawed we can be, Wong Rōshi offers not so much a map, but a strategic pointing to the constellation of choices and practices we can and must navigate to enter a slipstream into an ever-possible future, together.

This work is a triumph, and you can feel the thunderous dance of ancestors’—past and future—approval.”
—Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Rōshi, coauthor of Radical Dharma

“Norma Wong has been a compelling teacher in the realm of transformation for years—when I met her she was somehow one with the floor as several grownups tried with zero success to lift her up. I wanted to learn everything about that grounding. In this tight, engaging work, Norma is walking us through current events and possibilities, pointing out the actual currents, the questions, the timeplaces and emergent worldviews that most matter. This is deep, no-nonsense grounding, taught lightly, with invitation and humor and curiosity. Profound and embodied in each line . . . I know I will return to this text over and over. I join Norma on the path toward ‘interdependent thriving,’ toward a visionary spacetime that grows from the seeds of our practice in the here and now.”
—
Wong, Norma
ISBN: 9798889840992

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