Zen to Go

by Jon Winokur

Book Overview

Zen to Go serves up bite-sized bits of wisdom from the East and from the West, from the Buddha to Yogi Berra. These spiritually delectable sayings and quotations convey the essence of Zen, to light up the mind and nourish the soul. Book jacket.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452265312
• ISBN13: 9780452265318
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

If you understand the question, you won't need the answer.

You need to read this book to figure out that you didn't need to read this book. Zen To Go is a compendium of those OMG flashes of insight when words can almost kind of describe the truth of things and maybe-just-maybe you figured something real out. It's a bunch of contradictions(nothing is everything is nothing), a bunch of humor(Yogi Berra is quoted a lot), and all else inbetween. It's the best book I've ever read or ever will read without a doubt, because when I first flipped through it's pages, in a Borders bookstore on a non day, an older, wiser me flipped back.

what a great book

very zen in itself, and admittedly a "finger pointing at the moon", this book gives a great flavor of zen and shows zen's varied forms as well as zen's freedom from a particular time. Great concept, great quotes, great book.

Best cross section on Zen available

Lighthearted but impressive collection of quotations on all aspecs of Zen from Life to Death, BC to modern day, & everything in between. A great place to start searching for those aspects of Zen philosophy which interest you. Quips from Yogi Berra to the Buddha make this a wide-ranging and sometimes moving collection I've read time and time again.