Jesse’s Reviews > Zen and the Psychology of Transformation: The Supreme Doctrine > Status Update

I'm abandoning this book. The author is discussing concepts like "enlightenment" and "truth" in loaded, concrete terms, and I think Zen and Buddhism are too new to me for me to expose myself with this material without considerable confusion. Another day, maybe...

This is a dense read, characterized more by middle 20th-century French intellectualism than by what most might consider the "usual" character of Zen literature. Sometimes I feel like I get some (somewhat vague) insight from reading between these lines. I don't not-recommend it, but I don't think I would freely suggest it to anyone interested in the crossroads between western psychology and Zen philosophy.