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Little Zen Companion

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ISBN-10: 1563054671

ISBN-13: 9781563054679

Edition: 1994

Authors: David Schiller

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While it seeks neither to define Zen nor answer its most famous koan (a riddle unanswerable by conventional thinking, in this case the sound of one hand clapping), this bestselling little book with 437,000 copies in print possesses a maverick Zen spirit that points to a different way of looking at the world. With each page featuring a quote, phrase, story, koan, haiku, or poem, Zen Companion combines the feeling and format of a meditation book with 2,500 years of wisdom-from Lao-tzu and Groucho Marx, William Carlos Williams and The Little Prince, D. T. Suzuki and Walker Percy, the Buddha and the Bible, Einstein and Gertrude Stein. It's a celebration of intuition: "If a man wishes to be…    
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Book details

List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/2/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 4.50" wide x 4.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

David Schiller is an author of eclectic interests whose books include The Little Zen Companion, All-American Carioke, and The Runaway Beard. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife, three children, and (only) three guitars.