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First You Shave Your Head Book

When a Zen master invited Geri Larkin to join him on a spiritual pilgrimage to Korea, she had a spiritually incorrect reaction. One might think "that I would be swept away by emotion, stunned at my good fortune," writes Larkin in First You Shave Your Head. Instead, she obsessed over the mandate that she shave off all of her hair. "If I was going to be a card- carrying pilgrim, then I had to peel my fingers off of my last scalp of identity--my hair," writes Larkin, whose other popular works include Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and Tap Dancing in Zen. This self-effacing, witty narrator speaks with an unabashedly, all-American frame of mind, helping Westerners see themselves walking the Buddhist path. As Larkin treks through the mountains and monasteries of Korea, she shares her pangs of hunger and her fear of the unknown as well as the bliss of "magic moments," such as drinking green tea in a hermitage that was carved into a cliff. This travelogue shows us what it means to journey toward enlightenment with humility, or at least good sense of humor. --Gail HudsonRead More

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  • Product Description

    When STUMBLING TOWARD ENLIGHTENMENT and TAP DANCING IN ZEN author Geri Larkin is invited on a pilgrimage to Korea with her Buddhist master for thirty days of practice, she is thrilled, flattered, and utterly freaked out. And so begins another life journey along the spiritual path of one of our favorite authors. Larkin?s account is by turns hilarious, heartbreaking, exasperating, and exhilarating, and is told with her usual charm and grace. Part travelogue, part spiritual journey, FIRST YOU SHAVE YOUR HEAD is a lighthearted collection of Buddhist practices and principles that won?t fail to inspire and amuse.

  • 1587610094
  • 9781587610097
  • Geraldine A. Larkin
  • 18 September 2001
  • Celestial Arts
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 160
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