Goodreads asked Barry Magid:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Barry Magid As a zen teacher, I give weekly talks to my students. I've gotten used to fashioning whatever I happen to be reading or thinking about into short sermons, even if they sometimes are rather idiosyncratic. So my students get to hear about Isaiah Berlin and Hubert Dreyfus as well as Dogen and Rinzai. All those talks sometimes add of to a book, with themes emerging I didn't know I was exploring...

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