Zen at Work Author:Les Kaye A Zen teacher who balanced his commitment to Zen practice with a high-level business career shares the wisdom and practical experience he gained by integrating spiritual practice into the workplace. — Lee Kaye is abbot of Kannon Do, the Zen meditation center in Mountain View, California. For more than thirty years he maintained both a caree... more »r at IBM, in a variety of technical and administrative positions, and an active and ever-deepening Zen practice. While at IBM, in fact, he grew from a novice to a Zen master.
That such seemingly disparate worlds can mix, and how they can, is the message of this book. With the clarity and warmth of a gifted teacher, Kaye weaves his expositions of impermanence, unity, mindfulness, enlightenment, and other basic Zen ideas with accounts of how he applied the teachings of Zen to his nine-to-five job ab IBM, and how he found in work activities--from the most rewarding to the most mundane--a path to greater spiritual understanding.« less