# Ambivalent Zen

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- Book: [Ambivalent Zen](https://www.bookquiver.com/lawrence-shainberg/ambivalent-zen) ([Ambivalent Zen.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lawrence-shainberg/ambivalent-zen.md))
- Authors: [Lawrence Shainberg](https://www.bookquiver.com/lawrence-shainberg)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7977-288-0
- Pages: 336
- Published: 1997-03-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Seeking help with his basketball game, Shainberg embraced Zen Buddhism in 1951 and was catapulted on a life-long spiritual journey. Alternately comic and reverential, Ambivalent Zen chronicles the rewards...