Satori Blues: A Poem John Botten This book really will change

This book really will change the way you think about your life

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage

Not that the recipes are basic - though they are always simple - but it's important to make every ingredient earn its place

" This crucial difference increases the responsibility of the nonfiction reader

It suggests that patience and confusion--rather than rigor and certainty--are the essential precursors of wisdom

Satori Blues: A Poem John Botten This book really will changeSatori Blues is an extended, Zen inspired response to writings by teachers of Buddhism and post Buddhist philosophies. Composed as a stream of thoughtat times epigrammatic, philosophical, fragmented, even exclamatorythe poem becomes a concerted movement within a space of meditation, as well as a sustained, psychological record of a yearning towards spiritual truth and clarity.