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Zen At Work: A Zen Teacher’s 30-Year Journey in Corporate America
 Zen At Work: A Zen Teacher’s 30-Year Journey in Corporate America
in the early 1960’s when he first discovered Zen. It was a time when the gulf between life
were, like Kaye, committed to exploring Zen while raising a family and pursuing an active professional career
and became the abbot of Kannon Do, a Zen meditation center in California. During the same time he
didn’t know what it meant to be a Zen monk in modern America … .I understood
didn’t know what it meant to be a Zen monk in modern America … .I understood
Was it possible to have the true spirit of a Zen monk while living a suburban, corporate life?”
 In Zen at Work, Kaye makes it clear that the two
. He relates stories from his parallel careers in Zen and at IBM in a chatty, anecdotal manner,
He also sets out a distillation of his understanding of Zen in a sparer, less personal style, one he
allowed him to give much of his energy to his Zen practice. In return, Zen gave Kaye tools for
read worthwhile. For example: “In Zen practice we use incense a great deal. …
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