joe...hero worshipping is not within the realms of the zen spirit!...merle Edgar,
OK, if Sheng Yen's book doesn't do it for you -- and it might -- then try another Zen biography? I just now heard about it on NPR in an interview with the still-mellifluous author. It fits this forum because it has the word "Zen" in the title, at least ...like that novel by Pirsig in the early 1970s that I never finished reading (a friend borrowed it one night when I was paused on page 75, and having to do a lot of other reading in other topics. I never got the book back and never bought another copy. Nor did I borrow one). See Tony Bennett's, LIFE IS A GIFT: THE ZEN OF BENNETT (2012). (published TODAY, Nov. 20, 2012) http://www.amazon.com/Life-Is-Gift-The-Bennett/dp/0062207067/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353445146&sr=8-1&keywords=tony+bennett+zen (there's a DVD movie of a partly similar title) --Joe PS He's an all-around great guy, and hails from where my Shih-fu set up his first -- and second -- Ch'an Center in the world, and USA.
