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A Straight Road with 99 Curves: Coming of Age on the Path of Zen
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From fascination to disillusionment and back, a memoir of one man's quest for Zen and spirituality in America and Japan.
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 his ego-driven fixation on achieving the profound spiritual breakthrough of kensho ("the Big K"). Lat...