Author Description

"Rogue Monk (Revised Full-Color Edition)" is a collection of memoirs and essays first published in 2010. This edition excludes writing that has been revised for the author's memoir entitled "Mitzvah," published in 2018. This edition of "Rogue Monk" includes photographs in color, some of which were not published in the 2010 edition. It is a memoir focused on the author's experience as a Zen student, and later, a Zen Monk.David Schneider's Comments:The spiritual path is a personal one; no one experiences exactly the same conditions as anyone else. On the other hand, challenges to the practitioner have remained fundamentally the same for thousands of years. The obstacles and antidotes described by the Buddha are not out of date. Thus a description of traveling the way - of coming to terms with specific obstacles, of applying or improvising antidotes - is always valuable. That Mugan Sozan Peter Schellin writes so clearly and sympathetically of his path and those along it, makes this book worth reading. That he also shows how a sense of humor bridges the small selfish life, with the big, compassionate, open way, make the reading a delight.David Schneider, author of Street Zen, the Life and Work of Issan Dorsey, Shambhala Press, Boston, 1993.