**A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR SELECTION**
As heard on The Tim Ferriss Show!
''Captivating''
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
''The book Shukman was born to write''NATALIE GOLDBERG, author of
WRITING DOWN THE BONES''A wonderful and generous book''DAVID HINTON, author of
THE WILDS OF POETRY***
One Blade of Grass is award-winning novelist and poet Henry Shukman''s account of his journey through the world of Zen Buddhism. Raised in a rationalist household in Oxford during the spiritual heyday of the Sixties and Seventies, an unexpected spiritual awakening would prompt a lifelong quest to integrate the experience into his life, leading him eventually to Zen Buddhism. As Shukman gets to grips with meditative practice and struggles with anxiety, depression and the chronic eczema he had had since childhoods, he discovers in surprising ways the emotional, sp
