# Elegant Failure

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- Book: [Elegant Failure](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-shrobe/elegant-failure) ([Elegant Failure.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-shrobe/elegant-failure.md))
- Authors: [Richard Shrobe](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-shrobe)
- Publisher: shambhala
- ISBN: 978-19-3048-525-9
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2010-05-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Zen koans are stories of exchanges between Zen masters and their disciples at the moment of enlightenment or near-enlightenment. These stories have long fascinated Western readers because of their wisdom,...