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Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen

Hardcore Zen

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An epistolary introduction to Zen practice and doctrine written as letters to Warner's recently deceased childhood friend Marky. The form lets Warner cover the foundations — sitting, the precepts, karma, the dharma of friendship — in a tone closer to private correspondence than to his earlier polemics.

New World Library, 2019

license: fair_use

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Lineage: Sōtō

By Brad Warner

From Hardcore Zen

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  • New World Library

    New World Library author page

    Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen is Warner's epistolary introduction to Zen, written to a recently deceased childhood friend.