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Counterpoint Press: "Reports From the Zen Wars" by Steve Antinoff
- Item Number
- 389
- Estimated Value
- 17 USD
- Sold
- 17 USD to LamaCasey1
- Number of Bids
- 3 - Bid History
Item Description
Four decades ago — aged twenty — Reports From the Zen Wars author Steve Antinoff experienced what he calls a “negative satori,” a fundamental and irrefutable realization not of enlightenment, but of himself as a predicament only enlightenment could resolve. This, shaped by the hammer blows of a singular American professor, Richard DeMartino, brought him to Zen, and to Japan. Yet over time, of far greater import than his bungling efforts were the wonderful occupants of the Zen world he encountered: Toyoshima-san, the meditation Prometheus whose superhuman efforts astounded and inspired all while he remained impaled on the cliff ’s edge; the Thief, chief monastery monk who stole the world from whoever he encountered and whose yawns and the brushing of his teeth shot sparks of Absolute Meaning; Hisamatsu, the great lay Zen Master who at age 16 overheard a doctor tell his mother he’d be dead in six months, only to awaken ten years later and become the most delighted man in Japan; Bunko, the monk kind to others but ferocious with himself, whose daily state of Oneness in meditation left him dissatisfied because despite all exertion he could not crush it to pieces and break beyond it.
Steve Antinoff has BA, MA, and PhD degrees, all in religion, from Temple University. He lived in Japan for fifteen years, where he studied Zen Buddhism. He currently teaches philosophy and religion at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Counterpoint Press was created in 2007 through the acquisition of three notable independent presses: Counterpoint, Shoemaker & Hoard, and Soft Skull Press.
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