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(Used/Zen) This book is very good condition with library markings and stickers along with a plastic sleeve around the dust jacket and a checkout card on the back page. With only a small bit of water damage to the inside of the front cover this book has clean crisp pages. First published in 1975, Zen Training has become a classic of Zen literature. It was one of the first books to demystify religion without debunking it, to explain hitherto esoteric practices in lucid, everyday terms. It offers concrete guidelines for practicing zazen, seated meditation. Posture, breathing, the function of the abdominal muscles, muscle tone, and the mechanisms of wakefulness and attention are clearly and scientifically explained, so that one learns what actually happens in doing zazen, why it leads to certain psychological experiences, and what their significance is.