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The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery
by Janwillem van de Wetering
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A young Dutch seeker arrives at a Japanese Zen monastery hoping to understand questions that ordinary life has left unresolved. What follows is not a triumphant account of instant enlightenment, but an observant memoir of meditation, unfamiliar routines, fellow students, jokes, discomfort, and puzzling encounters with teachers. Van de Wetering keeps his own impatience and uncertainty in view, giving the spiritual search a refreshingly human scale. Brief, candid, and often wry, the book makes room for both serious inquiry and the absurdities of trying very hard to stop grasping for answers. (us.macmillan.com)
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