Yesterday David Chadwick, the author of the books
Thank You and Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan and
Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki was in Akron, Ohio and we hung out. I video recorded some of our conversation and here it is as my first ever video blog.
If you can't see that, go to this link:
http://youtu.be/fpII6K60408David also put together a great book of anecdotes about Shunryu Suzuki called
Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" and he maintains a very cool and incredibly extensive website at
cuke.comAnd one more thing! This morning Patricia Snodgrass sent me a link to
this great review of my latest book
Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between on facingnorth.net. Thanks Patricia!
Published on September 13, 2011 10:16