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The Library of Congress catalogues the hardcover edition as: Maezumi, Hakuyu Taizan.

Appreciate your life: the essence of Zen practice / Taizan Maezumi; edited by Wendy Egyoku Nakao and Eve Myonen Marko; foreword by Bernie Glassman.—1st ed.

p.   cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Spiritual life—Zen buddhism.   I. Nakao, Wendy Egyoku.   II. Marko, Eve Myonen.   III. Title.

eISBN 978-0-8348-2819-3

ISBN 1-57062-228-0 (hardcover)

ISBN 1-57062-916-1 (paperback)

BQ9288.M3      2001

294.3′444—dc21

00-046358

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Emmett Ho, cover

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