Ambivalent Zen One Man's Adventures on the Dharma Trail
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 04/01/1997
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When Lawrence Shainberg was first introduced to Zen Buddhism in 1951, he thought it might improve his basketball game. It did not. It did, however, set in motion a lifelong spiritual journey that led him from the books of Alan Watts and D. T. Suzuki to the rigorous form of meditation known as zazen. His passion for Zen endured years of doubt and physical duress until he found what he'd been seeking in the person of an unassuming Japanese master who told him, "Larry-san, if you sacrifice everything, you won't be afraid of anything".
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Alternately comic and reverential, and always brutally honest, Ambivalent Zen is a chronicle of the rewards and dangers of spiritual ambition and a poignant reflection of the experiences faced by many Americans involved in the Zen movement.
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