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I've Got Time: A Zen monk's guide to a calm, focused and meaningful life

by Paul Loomans

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Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West―The First Year, 1967

by David Chadwick (Goodreads Author)

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Gnomon

by Nick Harkaway (Goodreads Author)

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