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Real Zen for Real Life
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Real Zen for Real Life

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1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2022 · score 0.7

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A Great Courses lecture series by philosopher Bret W. Davis introducing Zen Buddhism and how its ideas can apply to everyday life. It is also sold as an audiobook.

One commenter calls it pretty approachable and says it helped a topic finally click.

Humanities & Social Sciencebeginnerpaidvideo lectures#zen#buddhism#philosophy#bret davis#great courses

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  1. Recommendssenko2022in “Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?”

    I found "Real Zen for real life" by Bret W. Davis pretty approachable.

    It's from The Great Courses, but also available as audiobook on Audible.

    BTW he also recommends the same book (gateless gate + blue cliff records, same translation) as the parent poster.

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