Books
Howard Fast

The Art of Zen Meditation

Bestselling author Howard Fast’s straightforward introduction to Zen meditation
Howard Fast began to formally practice Zen meditation after turning away from communism in 1956. The Art of Zen Meditation, originally published by the antiwar political collective Peace Press in 1977, is the fruit of Fast’s study: a brief and instructive history of Zen Buddhism and its tenets, written with a simplicity that is emblematic of the philosophy itself. Fast’s study of Zen also inspired his popular Masao Masuto mystery series about a Zen Buddhist detective in Beverly Hills, which he published under the pseudonym E. V. Cunningham. The Art of Zen Meditation is illustrated with twenty-three beautiful photographs. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate.
105 printed pages
Original publication
2011
Publication year
2011
Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Quotes

  • Miriam Ávilahas quoted4 months ago
    We are not in a monastery; we are in life, and Zen must be a part of our lives, not a replacement for it.
  • Miriam Ávilahas quoted4 months ago
    be here is almost all of it, to be here and not anywhere else, to be present. Not to be in the past, with memories and regrets and things that might have been but never were – nor to be in the future, planning, dreaming and escaping, not to be elsewhere, in another city, in another country, or with another or in a fantasy or in a daydream or caught up in some invented inner conversation.
  • Miriam Ávilahas quoted4 months ago
    tears loose to do what it has always done, to dream, to fancy, to race aimlessly like a squirrel in a cage, to hold conversations with itself – anything to avoid the reality of here.

On the bookshelves

fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)