{"id":1758,"date":"2011-03-19T18:58:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2011-03-19T18:58:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:58:53","slug":"book-review-little-book-of-finding-your-way-zen-art-of-doing-stuff-rev-francis-briers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/03\/book-review-little-book-of-finding-your-way-zen-art-of-doing-stuff-rev-francis-briers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review &#8211; A Little Book of Finding your Way &#8211; Zen and the Art of Doing Stuff &#8211; Rev. Francis Briers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fudoshin.org.uk\/rev-francis-briers\/\">Francis Briers <\/a>has written a book and I\u2019d told him I would only review it if I really liked it, happily it\u2019s a gem of a book so here\u2019s my review.<\/p>\n<p>The premise of the book is simple &#8211; you can turn anything into \u201ca way\u201d. The Japanese have done this from everything from karate to flower arranging and there\u2019s no reason why it can\u2019t be done with accountancy or cake baking. Turning something into a way is not only a path to mastering the art itself, but turns it (whatever it is) into a process of self-development. In this concise book Francis talks you through how to find your way, and how to turn it into a way. He recommends incorporating body, emotions,attention, imagination and ritual in any way which I can see the sense of. He discusses the need for philosophy, form and practice and makes some useful distinctions between practicing, acting and doing for example. The style of the book is like Frankie, both wise and funny, touching and irreverent, I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/product\/paperback\/a-little-book-on-finding-your-way-zen-and-the-art-of-doing-stuff\/14738932\">You can buy it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/book_francis.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1759\" title=\"book_franci_briers\" src=\"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/book_francis.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/book_francis.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/book_francis-199x300.jpeg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and colleague Francis Briers has written a book and I\u2019d told him I would only review it if I really liked it, happily it\u2019s a gem of a book so here\u2019s my review. The premise of the book is simple &#8211; you can turn anything into \u201ca way\u201d. The Japanese have done this from everything from karate to flower arranging and there\u2019s no reason why it can\u2019t be done with accountancy or cake baking. Turning something into a way is not only a path to mastering the art itself, but turns it (whatever it is) into a process <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[111],"tags":[1026,1072,1303,1304,1868],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/book_francis.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-sm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}