Praise for Finding Your Buddha Smile "A rich and textured series of Dharma talks probing the intimate teaching of the koans. The talks are great. (I find that I keep wanting to use the word 'rich' repeatedly.) I encourage mature practitioners engaged in koan study to read them. Hogen Bays, Roshi, Co-Abbot, Great Vow Zen Monastery "This wonderful book 'knocks out the wedges and pull out the stops' enabling us to realize what Zen is really about. Bows, indeed!" Taigen Henderson Roshi, Zen Centre of Toronto "Rafe Martin reveals the intricacies of a Way that has nourished many, including me. If you want a taste of that intimate Way, here it is, in this wonderful book." James Ishmael Ford, Roshi, author of Zen at the End of Religion: An Introduction for the Curious, the Skeptical, and the Spiritual but Not Religious.
"A salutary corrective to misunderstandings of the Zen Buddhist path as pessimistic, forbidding, or grim, Rafe's sense of humor permeates the koans and reveals them to be personal and engaging-pointers for living life amidst one's challenges and burdens, not apart from them. Emphasizing lived experience, rather than theoretical or conceptual understanding, no one can read this warm-hearted, illuminating presentation without feeling a smile coming from within." Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi, Abbot, Zen Center of Syracuse; Retired Abbot, Zen Studies Society. Selected Praise for A Zen Life of Buddha "Don't miss this treasure!" Chris Fortin, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi lineage; priest and teacher Everyday Zen Foundation, and Dharma Heart Zen "This elegant book is a complete teaching, worth taking the time to savor each page." Hozan Alan Senauke, Abbot, Berkeley Zen Center "Should be required for all Zen students." Sunyana Graef Roshi, Founding Teacher and Abbot, Vermont Zen Center Selected Praise for A Zen Life of Bodhisattvas "This is a wonderful and a very, very good book!" James Ford Roshi, author of The Intimate Way of Zen "Challenges us to recognize the Bodhisattvas in our lives and our call to function as Bodhisattvas in the lives of others. A delight." Rick McDaniel, author of Zen Conversations and Further Zen Conversations.
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