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    <body><![CDATA[i found this book entertaining and helpful. and as someone who sits (meditates) in a zen-esque manner every day it's a rare zen-related book that strikes me as both. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I came to this after reading the Amsterdam mysteries, and the first book <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Empty Mirror" title="The Empty Mirror">The Empty Mirror</a>.  This is zen with self-deprecation.  That helps.  ]]></body>
    
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