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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Not Always So by Shunryu Suzuki
Practising the true spirit of Zen.
Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzukis lectures and is framed in his own inimitable allusive paradoxical style rich with unexpected and offcentre insights. Suzuki knew he was dying at the time of the lectures which gives his thoughts an urgency and focus even sharper than in the earlier book.
In Not Always So Suzuki once again voices Zen in everyday language with the vigour sensitivity and buoyancy of a true friend. Here is support and nourishment. Here is a mother and father lending a hand but letting you find your own way. Here is guidance which empowers your freedom (or wayseeking mind) rather than pinning you down to directions and techniques. Here is teaching which encourages you to touch and know your true heart and to express yourself fully teaching which is not teaching from outside but a voice arising in your own being.