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Zen And The Art Of Running: The Path To Making Peace With Your Pace (2009)

by Larry Shapiro(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1598699601 (ISBN13: 9781598699609)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Adams Media Corporation

review 1: 6am in the fall, in New England, is dark, and cold. I get out of my warm bed, just a couple stretches and some juice, and out the door quickly... I keep my mind focused on the *feeling* - ignore the cold, ignore the rain, the traffic, just feel... My feet know the route, I can run it in the dark... my feet know every dip in the sidewalk, every curb, where the tree roots cross my path. When I hit mile 2 the sky begins to turn rose coloured and all I feel is peace, and I'm happy to be out and, yep, happy to have another 2-3 miles to go. I hear my feet, I hear the cars and the birds. It's a meditation in motion. So Larry didn't get to this feeling until chapter 5, I think, and that's what I was looking for - how to go even more deeply into this feeling. I would have put the b... moreook down, except it's an easy read and a small book. If you don't have this feeling already and would like it - read the book. If you do, and you want to share with someone else - share the book. If you already feel this, just smile and high five me on the road.
review 2: Meh. Got it as a Nook deal of the day thing, so I think I paid 99c for it. It was worth about that.It seemed mostly a collection of obvious statements. I guess if you've truly never thought about Buddhism/zen/meditation/whatever concepts before *and* you've never thought about running before, you could get things out of this book, but...then why are you picking up the book? I'm not even a practitioner of Buddhism; I've just read enough to read this and go "yep, yep, yup, okay, yup, skimming now." That said, it's also slightly unfair of me as a lot of these concerns just don't apply. I could pretty much skim the entire chapter on using these concepts to make running while having a family or while aging easier, since neither apply. Maybe someday I'll go "hey, he was right!" and rewrite this review. :) less

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