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The Art of Zen Meditation

By: Howard Fast
Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
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Best-selling author Howard Fast’s straightforward introduction to Zen meditation

Howard Fast began to formally practice Zen meditation after turning away from communism in 1956. The Art of Zen Meditation, originally published by the antiwar political collective Peace Press, in 1977, is the fruit of Fast’s study: a brief and instructive history of Zen Buddhism and its tenets, written with a simplicity that is emblematic of the philosophy itself. Fast’s study of Zen also inspired his popular Masao Masuto mystery series about a Zen Buddhist detective in Beverly Hills, which he published under the pseudonym E. V. Cunningham.

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©1977 Howard Fast (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Buddhism Philosophy Spirituality Meditation Mindfulness Zen Buddhism

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Nice quick and simple introduction to Zen meditation.
I will definitely come back to this book in future for insight and reminders.

Nice, quick intro

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First half is a great introduction then the second is a largely irrelevant biography

Half great half irrelevant

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Succinct, yet profound and very clear. Excellent! It also includes an interesting mini biography of Howard Fast, for those that are inclined to listen to it.

Great Introduction!

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Is helping me get back on a path I felt had gone forever. Thank you universe.

Helped when I most needed it.

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starts a story about Zen, then becomes an MK Ultra experiment in suggestion via linkage. the speaker is suggesting that if you want peace ie Zen, then you have to be a commie.
we can see the state of the world today, where communism is the people suffer.

communism is a cancer and should not be so linked to Zen, meditation or to anything that frees the mind. communism is a cult that imprisons the mind of whoever dives into it. a quagmire of toxicity connected to Zen, is purely political bad science.

nothing but click bait to push a Communist agenda

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He tells a bit about zen meditation,and then suddenly starts a story of a boy growing up, which is far to detailed and long. That was when I lost interest

At least the book is not that long

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the text-proper is very superficial and short. The author's biography is about half of the text.

largely irrelevant

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