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(★)(´R-0149´ es mismo libro.)(Titulo original: 食う寝る坐る[Kuu Neru Suwaru] 1. Disillusioned with the rat race, thirty-year-old Tokyo salaryman Kaoru Nonomura gives it all up to spend a year at japan's strictest and most revered training monastery, Eiheiji. Deep in the mountains of remote Fukui Prefecture, trainee monks live a life of hardship that few could endure: the physical agony of hours of seated meditation, lack of sleep, meager diet, and a punishing schedule of physical labor, against a background of threats and beatings from superiors. Yet Nonomura's account of his year at Eiheiji is full of warmth, humor, and gratitude, and as we follow his journey, we discover with him the courage to affirm the past and the joy of living mindfully in the present. 2. At the age of thirty, Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend, and his job as a Tokyo designer to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous Zen monasteries in Japan and head temple of the Soto sect of Buddhism. This book is Nonomura's account of that year, and his quietly determined quest to imbue his life with spiritual meaning. Shocking moving insightful, funny, and warm, Eat Sleep Sit is a warts-and-all story of the life of a novice Buddhist monk, grappling not just with the day-to-day mysteries of Buddhist practice-how to eat, how to sleep, how to sit-but with fear, exhaustion, hunger, and loneliness. A beseseller in Nonomura's native Japan, this beautifully written and inspiring memoir is a fascinating insight into a liffe of hardship that few people could endure. Eat Sleep Sit will appeal to all those with an interest in Zen buddhism and to anyone with an interest in the story of one ordinary man's search for spiritual enlightenment. 3.Born in 1959, Kaoru Nonomura traveled widely in Asia as a university student, and upon graduation began to work at a Tokyo design office. At the age of thirty he made the decision to put his career on hold to spend a year as a trainee monk at Eiheiji, a monastery famed for its rigid discipline. Twelve months later, he returned to his design job in Tokyo, and it was on the crowded daily train commute to work that he began to note down his recollections of his Eiheiji experience ; notes that eventually became´Eat Sleep Sit´, the author´s first book. Readers of Japanese can follow Nonomura´s further adventures on his website : http://nonomurakaoru.blogspot.com/) |
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