Zen to Go: Bite-Sized Bits of Wisdom [Hardcover]

Jon Winokur (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 29, 2005

This provocative guide offers bite-size wisdom from East and West, from such intuitive Zen masters as Henry Miller, Albert Einstein, Yogi Berra, Woody Allen, and Joan Didion. It conveys the essence of Zen with an eclectic mix of pithy ponderings on life, death, art, nature, reality, time, and nothingness. Witty and wise, airy and deep, Zen to Go is open to all (lotus position optional). Or in the ultimate act of Zen, it can be ignored altogether. As Gertrude Stein said, “There ain’t no answer. There ain’t never going to be any answer. There has never been an answer. That’s the answer.”

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books (August 29, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570614474
• ISBN-13: 978-1570614477
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,259,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best cross section on Zen available, July 14, 1998

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Rob "Rob" (Scottsdale, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zen to Go (Paperback)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars what a great book, August 21, 2000

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George Coghill (Kent, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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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.

5.0 out of 5 stars If you understand the question, you won't need the answer., August 26, 2003

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Darius Sohei (san francisco, ca usa) - See all my reviews
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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.