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Recommended reading:

• Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings

I'm not a Zen Buddhist, but I've looked into Zen as part of my research into swordsmanship. As a sabreur, I belong to a Western tradition which shares some ideas with Eastern swordsmanship but which is quite different in most ways. Winston King's book is a good treatment of Zen in the context of the Samurai culture:

• Zen and the Way of the Sword

One of the difficulties with Zen is the ease with which the Samurai culture overcame the Buddhist injunction against killing. King explains this pretty well and is a good counterbalance to the more apologetic views of D. T. Suzuki and others. The Kirkus Reviews for this book is available at:

• Kirkus Review of Zen and the Way of the Sword

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