CDN Retail: $27.95
Product Code: 9781608681839
Author: Warner, Brad
Vendor: New World Library
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In his "intimate, funny, conversational style" (Library Journal), Brad Warner muses on the Sam Harris, Karen Armstrong, Christopher Hitchens God-or-no-God debate - and offers up a typically provocative perspective. Warner was initially interested in Zen because he wanted to find God, but Zen Buddhism is usually thought of as godless. Looking for insight, Warner travels to places including Israel, Mexico, and Northern Ireland and finds, in chapters like "Sam Harris Believes in God," "God Doesn't Have to Be Real to Exist," and "What God Wants," that Buddhism "is a way to approach and understand God without dealing with religion." The fact that the book's title is Warner's misremembrance of a Zen monk's quote is emblematic of his profoundly engaging and idiosyncratic take on the ineffable power of the "ground of all being."
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