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This is, in one sense, the last word on Zen from a great teacher. Personal, intimate, and inspiring, the teachings here are available to all.


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Miniatures of a Zen Master Robert Aitken Nelson Foster Books Reviews

I have to admit to some disappointment in this book. Less about Zen than about random experiences that stuck Aitken Roshi as significant, its feels like random jottings from his journal that had no other platform for expression. On a note on Schiller's lyrics in Ode to Joy "his creator must have been very far away" or on Zen and Psychology, "many students and teachers think that Zen is a type of Psychology. This is like saying persimmons are a type of banana. The Zen Master is more like a flea than a psychologist. More like a cool breeze. More like a mountain peak. I am not exaggerating or being fanciful." Or, "Wallace Stevens ends his poem "the snow man" with the lines, 'the nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.' When I studied American Literature in college the instructor said, "this is a kind of nihilism. If so the definition of nihilism needs expanding." So many of his little quips leave me thinking, 'so what." could be my lack of imagination but I leave wanting more.
Read them and read them over and over again. These little texts never get old.
The late Aitken Roshi was full of wisdom. He does not boast and leaves everything to the reader to find his own!
This is, in one sense, the last word on Zen from a great teacher. Personal, intimate, and inspiring, the teachings here are available to all.