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    <body><![CDATA[This book provides good insight into the life of a Zen monastery and some basic information on Zen teachings. I gained a lot of insight from reading this book but I was not impressed with the book's ending. I was a little dissappointed to see that th author just left the monastic life after all he h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40456950">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Easy read of an account of a Westerner living in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery for two years in the late 50s.  It is full of questions and insights, and gives the reader a small taste of Zen Buddhism.  Short, quick, and easy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is an interesting first hand account of a Dutch man living in a Japanese Zen Monastery as a lay practitioner for over a year.<br/><br/>It provides good insights into practicing and following a religion in a different culture.  Especially westerners romanticizing and wanting to practice Z...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3182964">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Though I read this a number of years ago, I never thought to add it to my list until I read the author's obituary in the Times the other day...<br/><br/>Written almost in the style of a diary, I found it to be very open and honest and an engaging introduction (it was one of the first memoirs I rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27903988">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was recommended to me after I described my recent meditation retreat as physically painful... and now I totally understand why (the recommendation, not the pain... I already understood that). He does a nice job of oscillating between light-heartedness and profundity, though in the end it j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20496280">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A westerner's take on Zen, Japan, and life in a Kyoto Rinzai monastery in the late 50s or early 60s.  Far more down to earth than you might think.  This is more of a memoir than a new age book.<br/>]]></body>
    
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