Title: Great beginning... that was about it...
Review: I loved the opening of the first chapter, and the metaphor about what we call ourselves being nothing more than a whirlpool in the river of life. Great metaphor. Love it.The rest of the book seemed to me to be teaching (and Zen specifically has no teaching and is the destroyer of teachings) and emotions. Beck's slant on Zen seems to me to be getting people to meditated for years (according to her it takes years) and work work work at it. But Zen is not about that, it is about "nothing to attain and no one to attain it" period. All this working at it that she recommends fosters a subtle sense of egoism, a belief that there is some goal to reach, something to gain.Perhaps Beck is working with people whose lives are disasters and she is having to keep them busy in the hope that they will someday finally get it???
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