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Journey Out Of Nothing

My Buddhist Path to Christianity

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Journey Out Of Nothing

By: Martin Roth
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 While in his twenties and thirties, international journalist and best-selling author Martin Roth, living in Japan, became deeply involved in Zen Buddhism. So much so that he co-authored a reference work on the subject, “Zen Guide.” Now he explains the attraction of Buddhism to himself and to other young Westerners. He also recounts – often in amusing detail - some of his adventures. He became possibly the first Westerner to complete a famous pilgrimage to thirty-three temples in northern Japan. On another pilgrimage he spent three days hiking through some of Japan’s holiest mountains, sometimes standing under frigid waterfalls in purification rituals. He stayed at famous monasteries, often participating in morning worship services full of dazzling ceremonies. He introduces some of the fascinating people he met. These include the young priest who lived and meditated in a giant soy sauce barrel; the professor who devised “commuting Zen” meditation for his strap-hanging one-and-a-half-hour rail commute to work each day; and the American advertising executive who became head of his own Japanese Zen temple, a place where Caroline Kennedy, now US ambassador to Japan, stayed during her honeymoon. But he also explains why his interest in Buddhism began to fade, and why, today, he is a Christian. This short book (18,000 words), part travel adventure, part memoir, part spiritual odyssey, will entertain and inform. Contents: Introduction Chapter One – First Steps Chapter Two – Learning about Buddhism Chapter Three – A Series of Newspaper Columns Chapter Four – Writing a Book Chapter Five – Zen Adventures Chapter Six – Was I a Buddhist? Chapter Seven – Kyoto Chapter Eight – Heading North Chapter Nine – Christian Zen Chapter Ten – Buddhist Art Chapter Eleven – Doubts Chapter Twelve – Becoming a Christian Chapter Thirteen – Buddhism and the Book of Ecclesiastes Chapter Fourteen – Talking with Buddhists Buddhism Religious Studies Zen Adventure
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