The other day I received a note from a fellow Zen practitioner. For the tag line he used one of those jokes floating around the web. “Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.” As I read it I felt a flash of guilt. I recalled being contacted with an offer of a copy of a book to review. Actually the book has been sitting on my bedside for a while,... Read more