[PDF.49qf] Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center

Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center

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 | #870522 in Books |  2001-10 |  2001-10-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.35 x6.53 x9.57l, | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| 1983 haunts this book, the one year no one would talk about; the one year no one would stop talking about|By James Kenney|For those who are interested in Zen in America, this is a stunning book. It portrays the early history of San Francisco Zen Center and its satellites, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and Green Gulch. Michael Downing had barely tasted Zen when he began this boo|.com |Why did the richest, most influential, highest flying Zen center in America crash and burn in 1983? Novelist Michael Downing wondered the same thing, and after three years of interviewing members and poring over documents, his Shoes Outside the Door

Words not normally associated with contemplative practice exploded from the headlines when a series of interconnected scandals rocked San Francisco Zen Center.

By the late 1970s, San Francisco Zen Center had -under the spiritual leadership of its founder, Shunryu Suzuki, and his Dharma heir, Richard Baker-grown to be hugely successful, accruing wealth, property, and prestige, its aesthetics tinged with the glamour of celebrity. Zen Center's holdings included Tassajar...

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