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Not Always So Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

Paperback • 2003 • English

Not Always So Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

By Shunryu Suzuki, Edward Espe Brown, Zen Center San Francisco

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About the book

Practising the true spirit of Zen. Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is framed in his own inimitable, allusive, paradoxical style, rich with unexpected and off–centre insights. Suzuki knew he was dying at the time of the lectures, which gives his thoughts an urgency and focus even sharper than in the earlier book. In Not Always So Suzuki once again voices Zen in everyday language with the vigour, sensitivity, and buoyancy of a true friend. Here is support and nourishment. H...Show more

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9780060957544

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

Not Always So Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

Format

Paperback

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