||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A down-to-earth no b.s. experience|By John M. Haberstroh|This is a story of a Dutchman who visits Japan in 1958, arriving without language skills or much else other than an introduction to a Zen master and his Buddhist temple. The content is very everyday, gritty and down-to-earth, and I think that's the right way to approach the Buddhist religion. I sympathized very much with|From Publishers Weekly|Nearly 30 years ago, van de Wetering, who would later achieve fame as a mystery novelist, published The Empty Mirror, about his experiences at a Zen monastery in Japan in the mid-60s. In 1975, he published a sequel, A Glimpse of Nothingne
Seen by many as a contemporary classic, Janwillem van de Wetering's small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student—later a widely celebrated mystery writer—who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, author of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, has written, The Empty Mirror "should be very encouraging for other Western seekers." [PDF.iq89] The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery Rating: 4.75 (513 Votes)
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