
Appalachian Zen
Journeys in Search of True Home, from the American Heartland to the Buddha Dharma
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Narrado por:
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Gabriel Vaughan
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Steve Kanji Ruhl
This luminous memoir combines the hardscrabble setting of Appalachia with the spiritual wisdom of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
Appalachian Zen describes a journey we all take, one that Buddhism calls "seeking our true home." Edgy, lyrical, and lovingly rendered, this book recounts how a kid from a Pennsylvania mill-town trailer park grew up—surrounded by backwoods farms and amid grief, violence, and passionate yearning—to become something improbable: a Buddhist minister teaching Zen. Author Steve Kanji Ruhl takes listeners on an adventure of discovery, roving far from the Appalachian Mountains of central Pennsylvania on a footloose Zen pilgrimage to Japan and beyond.
Featuring vivid firsthand accounts of spiritual seeking and teaching in Japanese temples, as well as forays to Tokyo and Hiroshima, the alleys of Kyoto, Amish cornfields near the Susquehanna, and a monastery in the Catskills, Appalachian Zen includes rapt nature passages and cultural references ranging from Proust to punk rock. Throughout the book, Ruhl engages Buddhist themes of awakening and the death of the self by confronting the lives and deaths, including two by suicide, of his loved ones. This provocative memoir tells how it feels to practice Zen, and to move toward a life of hard-won forgiveness, healing, and freedom.
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Very Well Written
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Wonderful, insightful memoir!
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Love this book and highly recommend it!
Such a wonderful life story!
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I have studied Zen for almost two decades, and his understanding strikes me as very surface-level. I'm sure he understands more than was conveyed, but this is not a good introduction for the uninitiated.
Worst of all was his extended discussion of suicide. It seemed like he decided to have his own therapy session all over the readers. I barely escaped suicide myself, and this author has no idea how to approach the topic. It's condescending to the dead, and his use of private letters from the deceased in this public forum is frankly disgusting. This is a large portion of the book, so readers who may be triggered by his bungled and insensitive discussion should be warned.
This is a meandering, disorganized, and poorly written book. I'm surprised it ever met a printing press. I had high hopes, but was left utterly disappointed.
Facile and Pedantic
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