Zen Mind Jewish Mind: Koan, Midrash, & the Living Word by Shapiro, Rami
Zen Mind Jewish Mind: Koan, Midrash, & the Living Word by Shapiro, Rami

Zen Mind Jewish Mind: Koan, Midrash, & the Living Word

"A great way to deepen your spiritual life is to take a deep dive into a tradition...
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Author: Rami Shapiro
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Zen Mind Jewish Mind: Koan, Midrash, & the Living Word by Shapiro, Rami

Zen Mind Jewish Mind: Koan, Midrash, & the Living Word

$49.14
Zen Mind Jewish Mind: Koan, Midrash, & the Living Word by Shapiro, Rami

Zen Mind Jewish Mind: Koan, Midrash, & the Living Word

$49.14
Author: Rami Shapiro
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"A great way to deepen your spiritual life is to take a deep dive into a tradition other than your own--especially if you have a competent guide, and Rabbi Rami is an extraordinary guide. Not into Zen? Not a Jew? Not a problem. Anyone on any path will benefit enormously from this profoundly illuminating book." --Philip Goldberg, author of American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West


With reference to Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Rami Shapiro begins with beginner's mind as "empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything." Then, Rami ponders beginner's mind in the child of the Passover Haggadah "who knows not how to ask." The parents of this child are told to open (patach) the child to the art of questioning. Asking questions is key to Jewish mind.


The questioning perennial beginner is central to both Zen and Jewish, Rami demonstrates: a daring, iconoclastic, often humorous mind devoted to shattering the words, texts, isms, and ideologies on which expert mind--closed to inquiry--depends.


Zen Mind / Jewish Mind is not a scholarly study of anything, let alone Zen or Judaism, and despite all the footnotes, the book rests solely on Shapiro's fifty-plus years of playing in the garden of Judaism, Zen, and advaita/nonduality. Chapters include "Dharma Eye, God's I" (1), "Koan and Midrash" (4), and "The Yoga of Conversation" (7).



Author: Rami Shapiro
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781958972656

About the Author
Rabbi Rami Shapiro, PhD is an award-winning author of over thirty-six books on religion, spirituality, and recovery. He codirects the One River Foundation, is a contributing editor with Spirituality and Health Magazine, hosts two podcasts--Essential Conversations with Rabbi Rami, and Conversations on the Edge--and a weekly Zoom "talk show" called Roadside Assistance at the Corner of Tohu va-Vohu (Wild and Chaos). He is the author of dozens of books including Judaism without Tribalism (Monkfish, 2022), and the 2020 recipient of the Huston Smith Award for Excellence in Inter-Spiritual Education.
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