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Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body
by Reginald A. Ray
from Sounds True

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Comprehensive and immensly helpful
  I don't give many reviews unless I consider what I've just read as great or awful. This book is great. If you wish to develop a meditation practice that will retain your enthusiasm for what many consider a boring exercise, this book could very well be for you. It first provides the basis for this particular practice then, at the end, provides a few sample meditations. I have been practicing zen for a year; the instruction given by Reginald A. Ray is compatible with my zen practice. It is based on the basic... more info

• Please ignore the Publisher's Weekly review
  I strongly echo the sentiments in Mr. Bucher's review. This is an important book. Mr. Ray appears to be a rare example of someone who is both a serious scholar and a deep practitioner. By the latter, I mean someone who is not just talking about the realization that is contemplated by Buddhist philosophy as an intellectual exercise, but who has experienced it personally through his practice. Anyone who has embarked on that path with any seriousness comes to realize that language and ideas, no matter how... more info

• Excellent analyis of Buddhism in relation to the body
  Reginald Ray's thoroughly researched book discusses the Buddha's teachings on attaining enlightenment through the body. This is an interesting angle and makes for a fascinating and useful book. The book has an academic tone, and feels very intellectual and analytical. The book resembles a dissertation that has been turned into a book (which isn't a bad thing, but does reflect on the overall tone of the book). Despite being a rigorous analysis of the body and enlightenment as it appears in Buddhist... more info

• Finest American dharma book to date
  Given the dismal review listed earlier from Publisher's Weekly, I feel compelled to write this, my first (and probably last) review for amazon. I am a 20 year Zen practitioner and former assistant editor of the Mountain Record. In that capacity I wrote 25 or so book reviews, but none for the past 10 years or so.
  Reginald Ray's book is a revelation; it is the finest, most original book written by an American to date, at least as far as I'm concerned. I am one of the many, many practitioners has... more info

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