Zen and Us

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Summary: Lucid philosophy and spirituality across cultures
Review: This book has the rare gift of providing a context and a meaning to Zen Buddhism in Western culture. This is accomplished by preserving the universal values in Zen to be seen from a Western philosophy background.The author creates a link between Eastern and Western cultures based on our common search for enlightenment, in the process he strips Zen and Western philosophy from the limitations of its cultural roots. The end result of this approach is an eclectic view of Zen not as a diverging Eastern option, or a end all, but as a contributing tool for humanity's evolutionary process.--- Adolfo Aguirre [e-mail]