Joe, Is Sheng Yen's book online somewhere?
Edgar On Nov 20, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Joe wrote: > 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. > >
