The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi

Susan Ichi Su Moon

ISBN 10: 0877734615 / ISBN 13: 9780877734611

Published by Shambhala, Boston, MA, 1988

About this Item

First Edition stated, First Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Near Fine w/bent front corners intruding several pages into book, else Fine and unmarked. xii, 156pp inc. Foreword by Gahan Wilson; illustrated in photos.

Seller Inventory # 035947

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi
• Publisher: Shambhala, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877734615
• ISBN 13: 9780877734611
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Tofu Roshi speaks from his No Way Zen Center, offering advice on such matters as how to get a dog to meditate and calming the worries of those fearing their loved ones may be going off the spiritual deep end

Reviews

This collection of spiritual advice from Tofu Roshi of the No Way Zen Center, including a running commentary from narrator and disciple Ichi Su concerning her complicated relationship with the master (she is not even sure if Tofu is a man or a woman), pokes gentle fun at New Age believers. In his answers to readers' letters, Tofu gives out free-wheeling counsel that ranges from the practicalfor the concerned parents whose daughter is trying to convert their cat to a strict vegetarianto questions of deep philosophical nature: "Why is there something, rather than nothing?" and "What is the meaning of life?" Tofu has remedies for everyone in this diverting book, but often, "like a basketball that teeters a long moment on the rim, only to fall outside the Hoop of True Understanding," it is difficult to ascertain just what Tofu has prescribed. There is a breath of scandal here, too, because in the sacred bowels of the No Way Zen Center, Ichi Su and Tofu are discovered passionately shaving each other's heads. Moon is coauthor of Risking Peace. Photos not seen by PW.
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