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These amusing essays on life inside and outside a Zen monastery make up the spiritual memoir of Shozan Jack Haubner, a Zen monk who didn't really start out to be one. Lifted in a conventional Catholic family, Shozan went on to study beliefs (becoming de-Catholicized along the way) and also to pursue a career as a screenwriter and stand-up comic in the night clubs of L.A. How he proceeded to go from life in the fast street alive on the stationary meditation cushion is the main topic of this laugh-out-loud funny accounts of his activities. Whether he's dealing with the pranks of any juvenile delinquent helper in the monastery kitchen or defending himself against boasts that he came out in a porno movie under the name "Daniel Reed" (he didn't, really) or being stunned amid it all by the compassion he activities in the existence of his educator, Haubner's tone is one you will be compelled to hear. Not only because it's highly enjoyable, but because of its remarkable insight into the human condition.