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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

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A memoir of the year Warner's marriage ended, his mother died, and his Tsuburaya Productions job collapsed — and what those losses revealed about the difference between Zen practice and Zen as performance. One of the few Western Zen books built around personal catastrophe rather than instruction.

New World Library, 2009

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Lineage: Sōtō

By Brad Warner

From Hardcore Zen

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    Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate is Warner's memoir of the year his marriage, his mother, and his Japanese career all came apart.