|
|
Product Description
From Pushcart Prize-winning author Lawrence Shainberg, a funny and powerful memoir about literary friendships, writing, and Zen practice.“Inexplicably good karma”—to this, author Lawrence Shainberg attributes a life filled with relationships with legendary writers and renowned Buddhist teachers. In Four Men Shaking he weaves together the narratives of three of those relationships: his literary friendships with Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer, and his teacher-student relationship with the Japanese Zen master Kyudo Nakagawa Roshi. In Shainberg’s lifelong pursuit of both writing and Zen practice, each of these men represents an important aspect of his experience. The audacious, combative Mailer becomes a symbol in Shainberg’s mind for the Buddhist concept of “form,” while the elusive and self-deprecating Beckett seems to embody an awareness of “emptiness.” Through it all is Nakagawa, the earthy, direct Zen master challenging Shainberg to let go of his endless rumination and accept reality as it is.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Ambivalent Zen : One Man's Adventures on the Dharma Path
- Year of the Monkey
- In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
- Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up
- The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World
- Letters to a Dead Friend about Zen
- The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path
- Thanks for the Dance
- The Snow Leopard (Penguin Classics)
- The Dark Side of the Mirror: Forgetting the Self in Dōgen's Genjō Kōan
*If this is not the "Four Men Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Perfect Zen Teache" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Dec 25, 2024 10:14 +08.
