Richard Bryan McDaniel’s Cypress Trees in the Garden

Yesterday Richard McDaniel’s Cypress Trees in the Garden appeared in our mailbox.

I immediately went to the chapter about me. What can I say? And, now that I’ve read it I want to categorically deny that I ever said, as reported on page 192, “Heaven’s-t’-Betsy.” Although I am moderately confident I did say the “Fuck you” reported on the same page…

Cypress Trees in the Garden is a romp through the garden of our contemporary North American Zen scene. He gives everyone all the rope they want, and several of us do chose to use that rope in rather interesting ways.

Want to know what Zen in North America in the opening decades of the Twenty-First century looks like? Here you go.

Can’t recommend it highly enough…

(And, as an aside, I’m so looking forward to the complementary although unrelated film, Zen in America. If you have a few dollars extra, think about helping them get the project done…)