Zen Edge

by Alexander Eliot

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816493553
• ISBN13: 9780816493555
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Seabury Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

illuminating !

It's a pity this book is out of print. Zen Edge is meditation in prose. Eliot paints in words the living spirit of zen with the deft simplicity of a calligrapher. Linking disparate episodes of his life in New York .Corfu & Kyoto he conveys. as a practitioner of zazen , what it must be like to experience 'satori' - that state beyond the tension of duality. From rock to diamond Eliot traces the dissolution of illusion, the quiet pain of paring down to the knowledge of the heart - the difficult , ultimately necessary ( for him) path of letting go the arrogance of the ego. The reader follows as the wrtiter 'unclenches his fist'. It's poetry to read. It's poetry to live by. All I can say is, let's get it back on the shelf so my Christmas shopping is easy. END