This book has been with me 50 years. What book do you still have that represents a profound influence in your youth?pic.twitter.com/gQ707h0mP0
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It's holding up fairly well almost two decades later. Just some unbinding at the spine.pic.twitter.com/6BVIoKHOSm
Two seeds for me...reading the DDJ in my mid teens, and a zhàn zhuāng practice in my late teens that I think led to a classic experience of “arising and passing away” (at least in the sense that the pragmatic dharma people tend to talk about it)...both took a while to fruit
Hesse's *Siddhartha* got me started meditating as a teen, followed by the Reader's Digest(!) account of Herbert Benson's *Relaxation Response* (based on TM). And when as a freshmen someone put a copy of *Be Here Now* in my hands... while I was in a markedly altered state... :)
The Dao De Jing is one of those books you can read in some few hours but you need spend several years studying it carefully in order to understand it fully. Is one of my favorite books too.
Ancient books like that works like a replayable game where interpretations comes out with different results in different ages. Anyway yes it's the most influential book for me, to date.
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