Word: naiveté
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...campus to the hard-won triumph of securing permission to study in America. Shuttling his narrative between Beijing and Yellow Stone, his home in the Fujianese countryside, Chen recounts his often-awkward coming-of-age with humor, affection and a freshness that derives both from his almost implausible naivet? and his relish at writing in his second language...
...infancy. As one member put it of Zen Center's early days: "We knew what we were doing, but we really didn't know what we were doing." Whatever eventually becomes of Buddhism in America, the fact that such a disparate group of ragged, countercultural anybodies could?through naivet?, prescience or some combination of the two?manage to engineer Zen's establishment as a living practice as well and as swiftly as they did remains something of a miracle...
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