The compass of Zen =
by Seung Sahn. · first published 1997
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The Compass of Zen by Seung Sahn. I was a much angrier and stressed person prior to reading it. Not perfect today by any means but far, far better. And no, I'm not a "practicing" zen buddhist or anything close - the…
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life?” ↗…itself can be authentic at the same time. See Trungpa Rinpoche's "The Path is the Goal" and the fact that he was an alcoholic who had sex with some (many?) of his students. Or, master Seung Sahn's, "The Compass of Zen", and his penchant for alcohol and female students. There are of course other masters in the same boat, a conundrum, the teaching speaks volumes, but their actions do too o_O
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