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Title	:	Zen in the Art of Archery
Author	:	Eugen Herrigel
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 81 pages
Published	:	1999 by Vintage (first published 1948)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Religion. Buddhism. Zen. Spirituality

Zen in the Art of Archery Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 81 pages

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The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this timeless account.

This book is the result of the author’s six year quest to learn archery in the hands of Japanese Zen masters. It is an honest account of one man’s journey to complete abandonment of ‘the self’ and the Western principles that we use to define ourselves. Professor Herrigel imparts knowledge from his experiences and guides the reader through physical and spiritual lessons in a clear and insightful way.

Mastering archery is not the key to achieving Zen, and this is not a practical guide to archery. It is more a guide to Zen principles and learning and perfect for practitioners and non-practitioners alike.

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Original Title:	Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschießens
ISBN:	0375705090 (ISBN13: 9780375705090)
Edition Language:	English URL http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/jjrs/pdf/586.pdf

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Ever since my early college days the abstraction apparatus known as western culture seemed to me a useful but essentially flawed way of understanding our place in the world. Zen, when I first met it, seemed to validate Rimbauds "derrangement of the senses" and Blake's "path of excess" procedures. It gave a method, albeit a strange, incomprehensible one, to mysticism propounded by western artists. It would seem from Herrigel's book, that there is no one path to Zen and the absolute: archery will

I've read books like this before, most of them for a class I think. Most never range more than 100 pages but they never fail to send my brain round in circles trying to really comprehend what I just read. Some bits are more clear than others, I will say, but there are plenty of passages I end up reading more than once. I won't even attempt to give a description of what Zen is. Like Zen itself, my understanding of it is both there and not there, I can't verbalize it or write it but it exists to

Short book on archery and mastering zen.



SUM: Eugen Herrigel recounts his interesting experience training under a zen archery master in Japan. As a western man, Herrigel encounters problems with the process of archery, and his journey toward zen is framed in a perspective that a western audience can appreciate and understand.REV: I absolutely love this book. I draw connections, of course, with my own pursuit of writing as an art-form. For anyone remotely creatively-inclined, this book is a must-read. Some of the things that Herrigel

I was surprised that I enjoyed this book fairly well. My dad -- who believes that I am an incorrigible materialist, simply because he has wacky pseudo-scientific ideas about quantum mechanics that I am constantly forced to rebut -- sneaked this into my bag when I left after Christmas vacation. But I was having trouble finding something to read last night and I picked it up and was done before I knew it. It's really not as much la-la and hand-waving as I anticipated. I did cringe every time

I loved this book! It was interesting and very spiritual. Yes, it was hard to understand sometimes because it is a lot further from my mind. But since I deal with archery myself, I'm definitely going to think about these things when I practice. And in the summer I want to read it again, just to remind myself of 'it'.