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Zen Wrapped In Karma Dipped In Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, And Spiritual Celebrity In Search Of The True Dharma (2009)

by Brad Warner(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1577316541 (ISBN13: 9781577316541)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

New World Library

review 1: Rough language and little content -- more accurately an autobiography."Perhaps human civilization only began to advance once sex and nudity became hidden. In the animal world, exposure of the genitals to another member of the same species has only 2 meanings. One is an invitation to sex, and the other is as a way of inciting combat. Our own species, with its upright posture, as its genitals constantly exposed and must have been continuously sending out fight and/or fuck signals. Maybe it wasn't till we toned that down by covering up that we could get on to other things."
review 2: I read Warner's first two books and thoroughly enjoyed them. He is the anti-Zen master. He writes with disarming normalcy about practice and the life of a teacher. He is so disarming,... more in fact, that you often wonder whether this guys is truly enlightened. But that is Warner's point. He is trying to correct the misconception that spiritual teachers are supremely wise and imperturbable creatures with feathers unruffled. In his 3rd book, Warner shows, through the tumult he faces in his own life, that everyone, Buddhist teachers included, faces suffering, and the day to day stress that comes from being a human. Meditation is not a magical antidote but a practical way of approaching life.I give this book three starts because I feel like I got the point with his first two books. He is honest, and basically transparent, but that transparency works against him here at times, as he essentially admits that some of the motivation for this book was financial. It is highly readable, interesting, and eye-opening, and nicely complements his other books, but it is not essential. less

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