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Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate
Brad Warner
A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma
New World Library
February 2009
On Sale: February 10, 2009
288 pages ISBN: 1577316541 EAN: 9781577316541 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
How does a real-life Zen master — not the preternaturally
calm, cartoonish Zen masters depicted by mainstream
culture — help others through hard times when he’s dealing
with pain of his own? How does he meditate when the world
is crumbling around him? Is meditation a valid response or
just another form of escapism? These are the questions Brad
Warner ponders in Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate. During a year that Warner spent giving talks and leading
retreats across North America, his mother and grandmother
died, he lost his dream job, and his marriage fell apart.
In writing about how he applied the Buddha’s teachings to
his own real-life suffering, Warner shatters expectations,
revealing that Buddhism isn’t some esoteric pie-in-the-sky
ultimate solution but an exceptionally practical way to
deal with whatever life dishes out.
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