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Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion

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By Norman Fischer — 2015

By what narrow path is the ineffable silence of Zen cleft by the scratch of a pen? The distilled insights of forty years, Norman Fischer’s Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion is a collection of essays by Zen master Fischer about experimental writing as a spiritual practice.

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The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and this Zigzag Life

Here, Natalie Goldberg, “a writer both energized and enlightened” (Julia Cameron), shares those vivid moments that have wakened her to new ways of being.

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Natalie Goldberg
2016
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Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War

Learning True Love, the autobiography of Sister Chân Không, stands alongside the great spiritual autobiographies of our century. It tells the story of her spiritual and personal odyssey, both in her homeland and in exile.

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Sister Chan Khong
2024
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Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

Twenty years ago Natalie Goldberg’s classic, Writing Down the Bones, broke new ground in its approach to writing as a practice.

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Natalie Goldberg
2024
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Learning to Be: Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out

“It felt as though every nerve in my body was popping. Imagine large strong hands slowly applying pressure while breaking a family-size package of uncooked, dry spaghetti. I was the spaghetti. Breaking down one piece at a time.

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Juanita Campbell Rasmus
2020
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Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West.

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David Chadwick
2000
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