||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A fantastic lecture on writing and a little zen|By roan|Matthiessen is a very good speaker and teacher. He discusses his methods in an honest way. He speaks of zen in the sense of doing and not thinking of doing. His remarks and stories are at once deep and shallow. Deep in their truthfulness and shallow in the sense that he's surprisingly funny and jokes around a little.|About the Author|Nature writer and novelist Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City on May 22, 1927. He graduated from Yale University in 1950. He worked as a commercial fisherman and the captain of a charter fishing boat and made several scientific expedit
The heart of Zen practice and writing are the same, teaches Peter Matthiessen – to freshen the mind and see things in a new way. On Zen and the Writing Life, Matthiessen chronicles his own 25 years of growth as both a writer and a meditator. Can meditation be used to broaden and clarify the writer’s vision? How do you cultivate a "beginner’s mind"? Here is an extraordinary writer’s personal account of these never-ending tasks – and essentia...
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