by Aseem Gupta | Dec 29, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has become one of the most recognizable books about Zen in the English-speaking world, yet its familiarity can obscure what kind of book it actually is. It is easy to encounter Shunryu Suzuki through isolated sayings about beginner’s mind,...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 18, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Art of Mindfulness looks, at first, like a very small book about a very familiar idea: pay attention to the present moment. Yet the work becomes much more demanding than that description suggests. What begins with tea, walking, breathing, opening...
