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The Three Pillars of Zen

Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment

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The Three Pillars of Zen

By: Roshi Philip Kapleau
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
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In this classic work of spiritual guidance, the founder of the Rochester Zen Center presents a comprehensive overview of Zen Buddhism. Exploring the three pillars of Zen - teaching, practice, and enlightenment - Roshi Philip Kapleau, the man who founded one of the oldest and most influential Zen centers in the United States, presents a personal account of his own experiences as a student and teacher, and in so doing gives listeners invaluable advice on how to develop their own practices. Revised and updated, this edition features a new afterword by Sensei Bodhin Kjolhede, who succeeded Kapleau as spiritual director of the Rochester Zen Center. A moving, eye-opening work, The Three Pillars of Zen is the definitive introduction to the history and discipline of Zen.

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"For anyone seriously interested in Zen - this book will be invaluable." ( The Times Literary Supplement)
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This book gives a very comprehensive account of the practice of Zen meditation. Obstacles that may arise with the practise of meditation are dealt with and ways to overcome them are explained. Even a complete newcomer to Zen meditation will benefit from listening to this book and earn valuable and salient insights into meditation. The narrator has a
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If you're slightly interested in zen and it's history then read this, if you're not then still read it.

Narrator somehow improves what is already an amazing book.

great.

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There are so many books available on Zen and yet this great classic is always on the top of the list. I really enjoyed the content as well as the performance.

Amazing... a must read

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Well narrated and superbly written.

As timeless as its subject

Required reading for the Zen aspirant or home Zen practitioner

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I'm blown away. Fantastic book. I've been looking for a good Zen book ever since reading Zen Mind Beginners Mind.

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