There’s a particularly memorable scene in Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of Archery (German 1948; English 1956). Herrigel had come to Japan in 1921 to learn more about the practice of Zen. Once there ...
Zen Bow, Zen Arrow: The Life and Teachings of Awa Kenzo, the Archery Master from "Zen in the Art of Archery", by John Stevens. Boston/London: Shambahala, 2007, 104 pp. with photographs, $12.95 (paper) ...
After four painful years of training in archery, Herrigel had grown impatient with his lack of progress, and was on the verge of quitting. Four years prior (during the 1920s), Eugen Herrigel, a German ...