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| DIANA SALTOON
TEA AND CEREMONY:
Experiencing Tranquility
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"TEA AND CEREMONY reveals the way of tea - Chado - as a living path. Like any true path, it is there for any person to take, without limits on who that person may be. Embarking on this path requires only sincerity and willingness to understand that tea, in all its beautiful forms and with all of our appreciations, can be a lifelong journey."
-From the introduction by Deng Ming-Dao, author of Scholar Warrior.
Diana Saltoon began practicing Zen in 1981, and was introduced to Chado at the Green Gulch Zen Center near San Francisco. She is a teacher at the Wakai association in Portland, and a memeber of the Zen community in Oregon.
"Tea and Ceremony" is a sky society(tm) project.
More on Diana Saltoon's "Tea and Ceremony" and ordering information:
http://www.teaandzen.com/publications.htm
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2.
Robert Briggs
RUINED TIME:
The 1950s and the Beat
Robert Briggs' long-awaited personal and cultural autobiography of events leading to and occurring
during the pivitol decade of the 1950's. The book includes ruminations on the military-industrial
complex, the Beat Generation, and eyewitnessing an atom bomb test while a soldier in the
U.S. Army.
"Ruined Time is the book within the book, the history within the mystery, the mythology
of the '50s, the so-called Beat Generation. Briggs reveals the real deal as a participant in that
confounding history. His work is a remarkable embodiment of the personal as the political;
a brave demonstration of tough insight, survival and triumph. Briggs brings it all into
play - not as a fantasy or mythoblathering hype, but as the ongoing and complex struggle all
dissident spirits had to (and have to) contend with in dark yet illuminated days."
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-David Meltzer
More on Robert Briggs' "Ruined Time" and ordering information:
http://www.ruinedtime.com
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