One Blade of Grass
- Author Henry Shukman
- Narrator Henry Shukman
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date 27 May 2021
- Run Time 11 hours and 10 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Mind, body, spirit: meditation and visualization, Spirituality and religious experience, Zen Buddhism.
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**A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR SELECTION**
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'The book Shukman was born to write'
NATALIE GOLDBERG, author of WRITING DOWN THE BONES
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One Blade of Grass is award-winning novelist and poet Henry Shukman's account of his journey through the world of Zen Buddhism. Raised in a rationalist household in Oxford during the spiritual heyday of the Sixties and Seventies, an unexpected spiritual awakening would prompt a lifelong quest to integrate the experience into his life, leading him eventually to Zen Buddhism. As Shukman gets to grips with meditative practice and struggles with anxiety, depression and the chronic eczema he had had since childhoods, he discovers in surprising ways the emotional, spiritual and even physical healing that he has been searching for all along.
By turns humorous and moving, this beautifully written memoir demystifies Zen training, casting its profound insights in simple, lucid language, and takes the reader on a journey of their own, into the hidden treasures of life that contemplative practice can reveal to any of us.
(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
| Author | Henry Shukman |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Henry Shukman |
| Duration | 11 hours and 10 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781529375800 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Genre | Mind, body, spirit: meditation and visualization, Spirituality and religious experience, Zen Buddhism |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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