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Title: Afterzen : Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear by Janwillem van de Wetering ISBN: 0-312-27261-8 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 08 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: honest and critical
Comment: Great book. Although the writer is sometimes very cynical about his teachers, this book did motivate me a lot to continue to learn about zen. Please more.
Rating: 2
Summary: Well....
Comment: This book left me unsatisfied. The author seems very disillusioned by Zen in this book. It is necessary to point out that the real world is not always nice, but it seems wrong to me to blame Zen itself for his negative experiences.
Reading this book and remembering his earlier ones I wonder if he had a too naive acceptance of things, just because they claimed to be Zen. Books like Matthiessens "9-headed dragon river" seem much more realistic too me.
That's at least the feeling I had after reading the book.
Rating: 2
Summary: For Zen eyes only...
Comment: I found this book self-indulgent, with Van de Wetering butting his head against the same wall (koans?) here as he was in his book of forty years ago (The Empty Mirror) and I had this enlightening thought, "Perhaps this concept of Zen is a dead end and, in the end, we are left only with ourselves."
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Title: The Empty Mirror : Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery by Janwillem van de Wetering, Janwillem van de Wetering ISBN: 0312207743 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 14 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Glimpse of Nothingness : Experiences in an American Zen Community by Janwillem van de Wetering ISBN: 0312209452 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Perfidious Parrot by Janwillem Vandewetering, Janwillem Van de Wetering ISBN: 1569471304 Publisher: Soho Press, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Blond Baboon (Van De Wetering, Janwillem, Grijpstra & De Gier Mystery.) by Janwillem Van De Wetering, Janwillem Van De Wetering, Janwillen Van De Wetering ISBN: 1569470634 Publisher: Soho Press, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Hollow-Eyed Angel by Janwillem Van De Wetering ISBN: 156947091X Publisher: Soho Press, Inc. Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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