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Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan
by David Chadwick

Audiobook for Thank You and OK! read by the author
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Paperback Edition
ISBN 978-1-59030-470-9 / May 2007

Originally Penguin, now a Shambhala Publications book

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the whole book going here chapter by chapter
starting 12-05-15


Driving Me Crazy, an excerpt.

Comments on this book from writers, critics, teachers

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Shunryu Suzuki in Thank You and OK

Cuts from TY&OK! found in Japan Stories

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

11-23-13 - Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan is now available as an eBook.

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Scans relating to Thank You and OK! such as reviews and Natalie Goldberg's letter to DC on Thank You and OK!: an American Zen Failure in Japan. - in Group TY  of 2013 Scans from Cuke Archives.


5-08-07 -
It's back!

"The Catch-22 of Zen." - Taigen Dan Leighton

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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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