Title: The book's title is a lie.
Product review: This is a terrible little book. The only good thing about it is the front cover (and that it is mercifully short). This book has little to do with Zen. The majority of the quotes are by people who are not Buddhists or Taoists of any stripe. The quotes themsleves have almost nothing to do with Zen. The quotes tend to be taken out of context and are much too short. The overall effect is to make great thinkers sound like followers of New Age mee krob (that's a South Park reference). The only purpose of this book is to make guests in your home think, "Oh look, they have a nice pretty little book about Zen. They must be intelligent, enlightened people." That only works if they don't actually open the book.
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