Overview

This Truth Never Fails is a playful yet well-grounded narrative of a year in the life of an unusual Zen master. Far from the silent and detached stereotype of Zen teachers, Rynick writes with disarming humor, offering both the struggles and the joys of ordinary life as opportunities for insight. Anyone looking for inspiration to bring a simple spiritual awareness into their daily lives, and also those interested in finding ways to more deeply integrate faith (in any tradition) with practice will find this book reassuring and encouraging. This book appeals to the broad ""mindfulness"" and ""general spirituality"" audiences that transcend any one formal tradition. Leaning toward Anne Lamott's humor, universal spirituality, and Mary Oliver's love of the natural world, Rynick's writing bypasses Zen theory and doctrine. Simple, clear prose illustrates, vividly, an insightful and tender appreciation of ordinary life as the Way itself. Includes a brief ""study guide for further inquiry"" offering opportunities for personal reflection and exploration on themes touched on in the book.

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David Rynick has a knack for converting Zen perspectives into beautiful prose. An extraordinarily perceptive paean to purposeful living. --Richard Leider, bestselling author of The Power of Purpose and Repacking Your Bags David Rynick is a master of the koans of everyday life: of stuckness, impatience, and self-doubt. --Barry Magid, author of Ending the Pursuit of Happiness David Rynick makes everyday Zen practice come alive in this delightful, heartfelt, easy to digest volume. --Ronald D. Siegel, author of The Mindfulness Solution Honest, practical, and humbly incisive. --Susan Murphy, author Upside-Down Zen I love this book! It's intimate, honest, real. A book to be savored a few pages at a time. ----Frank Jude Boccio, author of Mindfulness Yoga People of any or of no religious affiliation who seek meaning, joy and aliveness in their daily walk will appreciate this wonderful, thought-filled book --Rev. Dr. Jane Tomaine, author of St. Benedict's Toolbox

David Rynick has a knack for converting Zen perspectives into beautiful prose. An extraordinarily perceptive paean to purposeful living. --Richard Leider, bestselling author of The Power of Purpose and Repacking Your Bags <br> David Rynick's wisdom comes through Zen, and then takes us beyond Zen into simple, creative, and joyful aliveness --Robert A. Jonas, author of Henri Nouwen <br> Compelling and deeply touching. --Lin Jensen, author of Deep Down Things <br> Honest, practical, and humbly incisive. --Susan Murphy, author Upside-Down Zen <br> Joyful, luminous, and illuminating--this book is intimacy itself. --Prof. James Cordova, PhD, author of The Marriage Checkup <br> With poetic prose and deep insight, with honesty and gentle humor, Rynick teaches without teaching. --Whitney Stewart, author of Becoming Buddha <br> Not only is it a work of deep wisdom, gentle humor, and extraordinary clear seeing by a teacher of international renown, but an invitation for each of us to taste for ourselves what is true. --Mark Williams, coauthor of The Mindful Way through Depression <br> People of any or of no religious affiliation who seek meaning, joy and aliveness in their daily walk will appreciate this wonderful, thought-filled book. --Rev. Dr. Jane Tomaine, author of St. Benedict's Toolbox <br> Filled with the joy of what it means to be alive. --The Rt. Rev. Mark Beckwith, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark <br> David Rynick shares a year's worth of beautifully ordinary mind moments that carry us through the seasons to surprise, heal, and awaken. This Truth Never Fails is a gentle and lovely companion for our journey. --Rafe Martin, author of Endless Path and The Banyan Deer <br> These scenes from Rynick's are teaching stories that take us straight back to love. --Susan Moon, author of This Is Getting Old <br> David's love of nature, his warmth and compassion, his full humanity, shine forth on ever

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David Rynick is a Zen teacher in two different lineages. He has created and led numerous professional workshops and classes on leadership, systems thinking, coaching, meditation, diversity, and creativity, and has served as a college faculty member and the president of his Universalist Unitarian church. He lives in Worcester, MA, with his wife, also a Zen teacher.

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