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Nestled between office blocks on beautiful Sam Gak Mountain to the north of the city is the Seoul International Zen Center, attached to the scenic Haw Gye Sa Temple. The complex offers foreigners a chance to study meditation and Korean Buddhism in free lessons held (in English) every Sunday afternoon...
Closely related to Japanese Zen Buddhism, the main school of Korean religious thought is Son. Practiced on the peninsula for 1,600 years, the faith went into decline after World War II. But Son has enjoyed a recent revival. In a reaction to the Westernization that accompanied rapid economic development, South Koreans are now rediscovering their identity. The renewed interest has seen a return to the mass pilgrimages of the past and huge donations for temple repair...
...stares blankly; he might be a patient whose life the surgeons have saved by removing his soul. Like Clint Eastwood in his early surly days (A Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry, Pale Rider), Kitano is implacable, dispensing retribution that may also be justice, but only coincidentally. He is a Zen or zombie Clint?a Dirty Harakiri...
...pretension of this book, with its Zen-like attempts at pedantry and its flippant exchanges with time prompted me to wonder, where the heck does this woman get the audacity to publish such garbage? Furthermore, what prompted her publisher to actually waste the money on the book's production...
Despite such New Age trappings (and the sappy folk music on the p.a. system), Katie's approach, with elements that recall Zen meditation, Socratic inquiry and Alcoholics Anonymous' 12-step program, offers a pragmatic and simple way of getting people to take responsibility for their own problems. Says Katie: "It's a way to cut through everything. It puts responsibility back on the person looking for their answers, not the world's answers...