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Don’t Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan’s Greatest Zen Master

By Brad Warner

Book information

Publisher
New World Library
Year
2016
ISBN
1608683885, 9781608683888
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1121492 bytes)
Pages
0\0
Topic
Religion Buddhism
Time added
2016-09-03 10:29:38
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Description

The Shobogenzo (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) is a revered eight-hundred-year-old Zen Buddhism classic written by the Japanese monk Eihei Dogen. Despite the timeless wisdom of his teachings, many consider the book difficult to understand and daunting to read. In Don’t Be a Jerk, Zen priest and bestselling author Brad Warner, through accessible paraphrasing and incisive commentary, applies Dogen’s teachings to modern times. While entertaining and sometimes irreverent, Warner is also an astute scholar who sees in Dogen very modern psychological concepts, as well as insights on such topics as feminism and reincarnation. Warner even shows that Dogen offered a “Middle Way” in the currently raging debate between science and religion. For curious readers worried that Dogen’s teachings are too philosophically opaque, Don’t Be a Jerk is hilarious, understandable, and wise.

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