Reading progress update: I've read 50 out of 308 pages.
Update: This is a polished book. The author did have an editor. Book gets way better.
Okay, now I am seeing problems. This author really needs to redeem himself, and soon, or this book is DNF.
Eventually Len figured it out: you weren't supposed to do anything during shikantaza, because doing itself was the problem. The brain was always doing stuff.
The beginning was great, then it started to read like a middle grade novel. I have noticed a couple of instances where he used a word that would have been better off with an alternative choice. Like the use of stuff in the above excerpt.
The author sent out 200 hundred physical copies of this in a Goodreads giveaway. (This was another book from my drunken night on the internet.) I now am maybe thinking that some of the opinions that some of you posted in my comments section of my last post were correct. Why would he have 200 hundred copies printed out, then pay for postage on an unpolished book? That is very costly.
I do so love the cover art by Benjamin Ee. If this author doesn't pull something out of his ass soon, at least I will have nice decorative piece.
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