Started: October 8
Finished: October 21
Notes: It's been a while since I've read something from out in left field, so I glanced at my Kindle and saw this e-book from 1913 that I had picked up probably more than a decade ago. Apparently it was common for samurai to be Buddhist, a religion of which I only have a bare understanding, so perhaps I'll learn from this.
Mini review: The title here is somewhat misleading because there's next to nothing here directly about Samurai. Most of this book is a history of Zen Buddhism with an explanation of tenets for the religion as well as some ideas about practicing meditation. I found a lot of practicalities here, mostly about meditation and how it can help someone, but toward the end of this book it started to get into more mystical stuff which did nothing for me.
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