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Practice Makes Perfect
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CROOKED CUCUMBER
The Life and Zen Teaching of
Shunryu Suzuki
By David Chadwick
Broadway. 432 pp. $26
Reviewed by David Guy
The training of Japanese Zen monks is famously rigorous -- hours
of sitting meditation and physical labor, little food and less sleep
-- but nobody talks about what happens afterwards. A few monks
continue their hard practice and study, but most find a sinecure at a
quiet temple where they don't have to do much other than the
occasional memorial service.
Such had become the life of a fiftyish Zen monk -- in the '50s of
this century -- named Shunryu Suzuki. He had tried for ...
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