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Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan
by David Chadwick
ISBN 978-1-59030-470-9 / May 2007

is now a Shambhala Publications book

Driving Me Crazy, an excerpt.

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Shunryu Suzuki in Thank You and OK

Ryuho Yamada in Thank You and OK!  (called Gyuho in the book)
see Ryuho Yamada memorial page)  A message from a teenager

5-08-07 -
It's back!
"The Catch-22 of Zen." - Taigen Dan Leighton

Enthusiastic readers storm bookstores hoping to buy Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan before copies run out.
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Thank You and OK!:
an American Zen Failure in Japan
by David Chadwick
originally a Penguin Arkana book published in 1994

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