Not only because it’s highly entertaining, but because of its remarkable insight into the human condition. Shozan Jack Haubner has trained for more than nine years with a teacher whom I love, on a mountain that I know. Whether he’s dealing with the pranks of a juvenile delinquent assistant in the monastery kitchen or experiencing profound compassion in the presence of his spiritual teacher, Haubner’s voice is one you'll be compelled to listen to. Summary: These hilarious essays on life inside and outside a Zen monastery make up the spiritual memoir of Shozan Jack Haubner, a Zen monk who didnt really. Im stoked that Tricycle magazine picked my YouTube channel Zen Confidential as one of their spring listens The whole YouTuber project started out as a lark. How he went from life in the fast lane to life on the stationary meditation cushion is the subject of this laugh-out-loud funny account of his experiences. Whereas Shozan Jack Haubners first book presented the Zen teaching in terms of outhouse-building, oyroki-bowl-stacking, and anatomy adjustment as one takes. Raised in a truly strange family of Mel-Gibson-esque Catholic extremists, he went on to study philosophy (becoming very un-Catholic in the process) and to pursue a career as a screenwriter and stand-up comic in the clubs of L.A. These hilarious essays on life inside and outside a Zen monastery make up the spiritual memoir of Shozan Jack Haubner, a Zen monk who didnt really start out. Shozan Jack Haubner is the David Sedaris of Zen Buddhism: a brilliant humorist and analyst of human foibles, whose hilarity is informed by the profound insights that have dawned on him-as he's stumbled and fallen into spirituall practice. A screenwriter and stand-up comic’s hilarious and profound account of his journey into Zen monkhood-featuring a foreword by Leonard Cohen
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