Zen in the Art of Archery - Eugen Herrigel Stone and neutrality

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His detailed account of those sessions is an extraordinarily riveting inquiry into the nature of the human mind and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics

human evolution

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Zen in the Art of Archery - Eugen Herrigel Stone and neutralitySo many books have been written about the meditation side of Zen and the everyday, chop wood carry water side of Zen. But few books have approached Zen the way that most Japanese actually do through ritualized arts of discipline and beauty and perhaps that is why Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the Art of Archery is still popular so long after it first publication in 1953. Herrigel, a philosophy professor, spent six years studying archery and flower arranging