[bksvol-discuss] Re: To Shine One corner Of The World by Shunryu Suzuki
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:23:59 -0700 (PDT)
Amy,
Is this a book you've submitted or one you want added
to the Wish List?
Cindy
--- Amy Goldring Tajalli
<agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A completely different topic this time. I can not do
> better than to quote from the book cover: inside the
> front flap:
>
>
> "We say, to shine one corner of the world - that is
> enough. Nit the whole world. Just make it clear
> where you are." Shunryu Suzuki
>
> And from inside the back cover:
>
> "Shunryu Suzuki's extraordinary gift was for
> bringing to life Zen teachings in ordinary
> language. He arrived in San Franciso in 1959 and
> founded the San Francisco Zen Center and Tassajara
> Zen Mountain Center, the first Buddhist monastery in
> and for the Western world. By the time of his death,
> twelve years later, he had deeply influenced
> thousands of people and made an indelible impression
> on the spiritual landscape of the West." On need not
> be Buddhist nor religious in any way to appreciate
> the wisdom contained in this book, and there is
> kindness and humor therein as well. A lot to get
> from a very short book."
>
> And from a non-Buddhist point a view I never pick it
> up but find something to give me pause and make me
> reread and even read again even be it only one
> sentence.
>
> Amy
> omsm
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