Zen at Work
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0517886200 / Publisher: Three Rivers Press, January 1997
A Zen teacher shares his experiences integrating Zen ideas with everyday work routines and discovering a greater spirituality
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Les Kaye is abbot of Kannon Do, the Zen meditation center in Mountain View, California. For more than thirty years he maintained both a career at IBM, in a variety of technical and administrative positions, and an active and ever-deepening Zen practice. While at IBM, in fact, he grew from a novice to a Zen master.That such seemingly disparate worlds can mix, and how they can, is the message of this book. With the clarity and warmth of a gifted teacher, Kaye weaves his expositions of impermanence, unity, mindfulness, enlightenment, and other basic Zen ideas with accounts of how he applied the teachings of Zen to his nine-to-five job at IBM, and how he found in work activities - from the most rewarding to the most mundane - a path to greater spiritual understanding.
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