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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. wonderful insight...: there's an old adage in the acting world..'don't give a performance, let the performance give you'..so what does that have to do with this book? well, I read this wonderful book a few years back when I was studying acting in NYC and I really worked hard at incorporating some Zen technique into my acting process..it wasn't easy..but I stuck with it and I feel as if I reached a different level consciousness and ability with my craft. This book is a wonderful teacher for the ways of Zen and incorporating those lessons into real life events not just archery. 1   iayork | Aug 9, 2009 |  One of my favorite 'small books', Zen in the Art of Archery so well captures what it is to practice any discipline as an exercise in no-self. It is so paradoxical to most of us that the culmination of one's training and study should not be to become 'larger' and 'better,' but rather to essentially disappear so that no credit is taken for what is accomplished. Other than practicing a little sitting Zen from time to time, I am on the outside looking in to this great tradition. It is humbling to read a work such as this, and realize what is apparently possible, given the proper frame of mind. Or perhaps: given the absence of any frame of mind. (  ) CosmicBullet | Jul 2, 2009 | This book is quite good, even though it is not about Zen. Kenzo Awa, the Archery Master who teaches the author, never studied Zen, and his theory of the "Great Doctrine" was idiosyncratic and self-developed. Other, more recent, stories about the relationship between Japanese culture and Buddhism in general, and Zen in particular, are better for entering into that truth. This book, however, is great as a study of entering one's own. (  ) tertullian | Jun 9, 2008 | A classic in Zen from a Westerner's perspective. ( ) signature103 | May 14, 2008 | It seems the oriental concept of selfless and that of Meister Eckhart, niht, met in the heart of Herrigel. He thought that he lucks something, lucks some capability to accept and understand mysticism. And then he sought that in Japan, found the way to Unio Mystica in Zen in the art of archery. Hard to believe what he saw in a hall of archery in the night. But the point is what inspired he and not what he saw. ( ) oursonmarron | Apr 17, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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