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Straight Road with 99 Curves
Gregory Shepherd
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Description for Straight Road with 99 Curves
Paperback. From fascination to disillusionment and back, a memoir of one man's quest for Zen and spirituality in America and Japan. Num Pages: 176 pages, 24 B&W photographs. BIC Classification: BM; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
"Deeply involving, instructive, and capable of touching any reader who cares about the search for meaning."--Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America "In being so frank about his own struggles and fantasies, Greg's personal tale becomes something more universal."--David R. Loy, author of Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution In 1971, when Greg Shepherd was in his early twenties, he left New Jersey and joined the Koko An Zendo community in Hawaii. What began as a quest for enlightenment became Greg's confrontation with his own inner demons: his need for approval, his distrust of authority, and ... Read more
"Deeply involving, instructive, and capable of touching any reader who cares about the search for meaning."--Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America "In being so frank about his own struggles and fantasies, Greg's personal tale becomes something more universal."--David R. Loy, author of Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution In 1971, when Greg Shepherd was in his early twenties, he left New Jersey and joined the Koko An Zendo community in Hawaii. What began as a quest for enlightenment became Greg's confrontation with his own inner demons: his need for approval, his distrust of authority, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Berkeley CA, United States
ISBN
9781611720112
SKU
V9781611720112
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Ref
99-15
About Gregory Shepherd
Gregory Shepherd: Gregory Shepherd has studied Zen Buddhism since the early 1970s. He practiced with Yamada Koun Roshi at San Un Zendo in Kamakura and also with Robert Aitken Roshi in Honolulu, where he was groomed to be Aitken's first successor. Shepherd later received a fellowship from Japanese Ministry of Education to research contemporary Japanese music. He is currently Associate ... Read more
Reviews for Straight Road with 99 Curves
"Dug your book, Greg. Dug your version of the '99 curves'. It's shone light on mine."-Jeff Bridges, actor "His portrayal of his brash younger self is a fresh and intensely human portrait compared to the perfect, innocuous paragons of peace ordinarily presented in Zen texts... Shepherd's memoir transcends its subject matter and serves as a poignant reminder of something more ... Read more