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    Finding Zen in the Ordinary: Stories and Reflections
    Finding Zen in the Ordinary: Stories and Reflections
    Finding Zen in the Ordinary: Stories and Reflections
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    Finding Zen in the Ordinary: Stories and Reflections

    By Christopher Keevil

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    Finding Zen in the Ordinary offers honest and thought-provoking spiritual insights drawn from daily-life experiences. The book includes forty-eight brief stories, prose poems, dialogues between Zen student and teacher, and reflections on moments of spiritual awakening. Written by Zen priest and teacher Christopher Keevil, this book presents readers with the chance to reflect on their own moments of spiritual insight and engenders in the reader an experience of clarity and presence.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Hunt Publishing
    Release dateFeb 26, 2021
    ISBN9781789044508
    Finding Zen in the Ordinary: Stories and Reflections
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    Christopher Keevil

    Christopher Keevil is an ordained Zen priest and senior dharma teacher in the Single Flower Sangha. He has been practicing Zen since 1991 and teaching since 1998 in the lineage of his teacher, Zen Master Bo Mun (George Bowman), who is a dharma heir of the Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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