{"product_id":"zen-gifts-to-christians","title":"Zen Gifts to Christians","description":"How Zen experience can enrich Christians' emotional orientation.\nRobert Kennedy is one of three Jesuits in the world who answer to both the titles \"Father\" and \"Roshi,\" or venerable Zen teacher. In 1991, after ten years of practicing Zen meditation, he was installed as a Zen teacher at the recommendation of his teacher, Glassman Roshi, and of Glassman Roshi's teacher, Maezumi Roshi. Today, he directs a dozen groups of people from many religious persuasions - even atheists and agnostics - who sit weekly in Zen meditation throughout the greater New York metropolitan area. This book is specifically addressed to the Christian practitioners of Zen meditation or those who are curious about it. It is structured around the ten well-known ox-herding pictures that have been a consistent source of inspiration to Zen students for centuries.\nEach picture represents a specific Zen insight into life, and these insights, says Kennedy, are not only fully compatible with Christianity but can help Christians achieve the spiritual goals enshrined in a Christian classic. For example, The Cloud of Unknowing: to be silent and attentive, to be wholly present to life, to be able to separate one's true self from one's false self, the self-seeking part of the personality that so often brings on pain.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0826412823\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0826412823.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Kennedy, Robert E.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41445153603642,"sku":"DBV.0826412823.G","price":14.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0826412823-0.jpg?v=1780687542","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/zen-gifts-to-christians","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}