Thank You and Ok An American Zen Failure in Japan First Edition by David Chadwick ISBN ‎ 978-1590304709 1590304705

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ISBN 10:   1590304705

ISBN 13: 978-1590304709

Author:  David Chadwick

David Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts his experiences both inside and beyond the monastery walls and offers insightful portraits of the characters he knew in that world—the bickering monks, the patient abbot, the trotting housewives, the ominous insects, the bewildered bureaucrats, and the frustrating English-language students—as they worked inexorably toward initiating him into the mysterious ways of Japan. Whether you’re interested in Japan, Buddhism, or exotic travel writing, this book is great fun.

Table of contents: 

I COMING
AWAKE IN THE DARK
SULFUR IN THE AIR
RIDES TO HŌGOJI
GANGBUSTER ZEN
TITLES OF RESPECT
SOUNDS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
MEETING OLD FRIENDS
INTRODUCTIONS
OWL AND DREAMS
SETTLING
ON A SLOW TRAIN HOME
KOBASHI TO THE RESCUE
OLD SCROLLS, NEW MATCHES
JENGLISH AND ENGLESE
LAUNCH AND LUNCH
TEA TIME

II JAKUSHIN ON THE
MARITAL BOWS
UNDER THE BEAMS
ÖR YOKI THE TRUE WAY
REMEDIAL BREATHING
BEANING THE SPIRITS
CREEPIN’ MUKADE!
KOJI, BOUND BY DUTY

III WALKING
TAKUHATSU, “TO ENTRUST THE BOWL”
LEARNING THE BUREAUCRACY
MOTHER’S DAY CARD
KOBASHI BLOWS IT
TAIZEN SMOOTHS IT OUT
A LETTER AND A TABLE
A WALK WITH FATHER SAM
HUSBANDS AND WIVES
LION AND ROCKS
KATAGIRI
READING IN THE RAIN
SMOKE IN THE KITCHEN

IV LIVING
AT ISHITAKI’S
THE FOURTH GRAPE
A STITCH IN SPACE

LECTURE PREP
KNOCKIN’ ‘EM DEAD
IT’S THE ENVIRONMENT,
THE GOOD WITCH
DOUBTING THE SUN’S SON
MOO IF YOU LOVE BUDDHA
BURYING GARBAGE
THE NINJA AND THE CLOCK
THE BODHISATTVA’S VOW
SAVING THE SALAMANDER
MR. TEN SQUARE FEET
SHUKO TELLS ALL
OUR DUST RUNNETH OVER
STUPA

V LOOKING
DRIVING ME CRAZY
READING PALMS
DUELING SUTRAS
JUST ME AND MY BROOM
ELECTION RESULTS
CLEANING GENE
NORMAN GETS HIS WAY
GANGSTERS IN THE MIDST

VI DANCING
PREPARATION FOR HÖYŌ
ATTRACTING CROWDS OF DERISION

SERGEANT IN ROBES
INCIPIENT FRUIT OF LABOR
GOOD FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH
THE HEARTLESS SUTRA
PERIOD THEATER
ADDRESSING WOMEN
CUT THE Mōzō
GOODBYE TO KATAGIRI
LSD NO, WHALE MEAT YES

VII GOING
EDDY DUCHIN IN THE POST OFFICE
PRISONER OF PEACE
A CHAT WITH KOJI
THE TYRANT OF NARA
A VISIT AND A CALL
WE REMEMBER THE CATEGORY
GETTING WET TOGETHER
A FINAL SURPRISE
WORSHIP IN THE RUINS
VITAL ENERGY
BIRTHDAY BOY
I’M OFF

VIII GONE BEYOND
ASHES TO DUST
TRAIN REFLECTIONS
A LETTER FROM NORMAN
EPILOGUE
BUILDING OF FUMIDAI
ONE DROP

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