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# Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master Paperback – March 15, 2016

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
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*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2016*

I am pretty impressed and tickled by the whole thing. This book is just a brilliant interpretation. As he says, it is not meant as a line by line rewriting, and more of a quick thumb nail glimpse with a good bit of humor and fairly free interpretation. Nonetheless, Brad manages to convey the heart and sense of each passage. Just wonderful, a takes a kind of genius to pull this off. I think what he has done is just a blast and really funny too, while still being poignant and amazing.I think it still helps that I am already pretty familiar with the standard English translations that he is playing off though, so It may still be a little hard to follow for folks not so familiar with Dogen pretty well  (and hard to follow anyway even if you are because, well, Dogen is Dogen even when Bradicized). However, this book may still be one of the best first introductions to Dogen I can think of. I think the book is suited to anyone interested in Dogen, and easy reading overall, funny, insightful and amazing. He did his historical homework too and did a masterful job.Parts are hilarious, including how he took all of Dogen's classical style poetry and made em cheezy rhymes!Gassho, Jundo

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Informative and funny, I'll take that combo any time!
  

*by E***T on Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2016*

Coming from someone who doesn't know anything about Buddhism, Japan, meditation, and dare I say - doesn't have a single spiritual bone in her body, I loved this book!I'm not sure why I started reading it - maybe because of the title, or the other reviews, or because I was promised a good laugh.I got all of that, and more!- The book is indeed hilarious. It's definitely not one of those annoying spiritual books that make you fall asleep within a couple of pages.- It explains Buddhism, Dogen, Zen, the art of meditation... well, it explains all these things in a way that a completely non-interested and non-spiritual person like me can get them. Even better, the book tells you about all these things but for information purposes only. It does not try to indoctrinate you, or make you feel guilty for not practicing, or condemn you to eternal damnation. It's more about, this is what Dogen said (paraphrased in a funny modern tone), this is what people teach, here is some additional background - now go live your life the way you want to.- Dogen's 800 year old writings sound very hard to study and even harder to translate. Warner has done an amazing job making his ideas accessible today. The added humor is a bonus! And makes Dogen's teachings accessible to a much wider audience

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    fun and informative
  

*by B***Z on Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2016*

Brad Warner takes sometimes incomprehensible Zen writings, translated from the original source into ancient Japanese, sorts through multiple translations into English, and the reflects on their meaning to modern readers.  He draws on many years of practice, many of them spent in Japan, and a knowledge of the language and culture.His tone accessible, sometimes a bit sophmoric and flippant, but largely comprehensible, fun and informative.  This is a really good book

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