num_pages: 312
description: When Bodhidharma the legendary first ancestor of Zen was asked about the main principle of his holy teaching hes said to have replied: A vast emptinesswith nothing holy about it! A millennium-and-a-half later Tim Burkett finds that the answer still applies: you dont need to go looking for something holybuddha nature is right here in front of you. The concise summary of Zen teaching he presents in this book is expressed precisely in terms of what he found right in front of him: beginning with the delightful non-holiness he experienced in the presence of his original teacher Shunyru Suzuki and continuing through a lifetime of further teaching experiences.
language: English
title: Nothing Holy about It: The Zen of Being Just Who You Are
publisher: Shambhala