“Lao Tsu
meets Oom Schalk Lourens in this delightful meditation on what it means to
practise Zen in a changing South Africa,” says Jacana of Antony Osler’s new
book.” We meet a kaleidoscope of everyday people and places, the karretjie
mense, the opera-singing garage attendant and the folk of Fauriesmith in an
exquisitely designed book where photographs by David Collett elegantly
compliment Osler’s wise and humane writing.”
In Zen
Dust, the follow-up to his popular Stoep Zen, Osler takes a trip
down the lesser-known back roads of the Karoo, from Kimberley to Colesburg.
He connects with the people he meets along the
way and shares their stories, past and present, as well as his own personal
history and insights. The road is sprinkled with his special brand of poetry
and interwoven with a fresh telling of the tale of Gotama, the man who would
become Buddha.
Antony Osler is a long-term Zen
practitioner and a teacher in the lineage of Zen Master Dae Gak of Furnace
Mountain. He is also a former Zen monk and human rights advocate. Antony lives with his family on a farm in the Karoo region
of South Africa,
where he leads meditation retreats in a stone zendo and sits each evening on
the stoep to watch the sun go down. When off the farm he arbitrates labour
disputes.
Zen Dust is published in paperback by Jacana. Available at R168 (including 14% tax) from www.jacana.co.za ISBN: 9781431406173
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