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murielm99

(31,411 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 02:35 PM Jan 2014

Have any of you read

"A Tale for the Time Being," by Ruth Ozeki?

Given all the woo threads here, I think some of the vocal people here should sit down and read this book. The writer is a lady who is a Zen priest. She combines themes of Zen, quantum physics and contemporary Japanese issues. The narrators are, alternately, a 16 year old Japanese diarist an a Vancouver writer whose creativity is blocked. The writer finds the girl's diary along the coast of the island where she lives, and thinks it may be tsunami debris. She begins to read...

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Have any of you read (Original Post) murielm99 Jan 2014 OP
I haven't read it though it sounds fascinating. kentauros Jan 2014 #1
Thank you! I am putting it on my list. Have you read "The Dancing Wu Li Masters?" Squinch Jan 2014 #2

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
1. I haven't read it though it sounds fascinating.
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 03:50 PM
Jan 2014

I'll have to look for it. My reading speed is rather slow, so it may be a while before I either get to it or can finish it

Squinch

(52,482 posts)
2. Thank you! I am putting it on my list. Have you read "The Dancing Wu Li Masters?"
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 10:03 PM
Jan 2014

Another one that shows the compatibility of quantum physics and some spiritual values.

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