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Touching Ground: Devotion and Demons Along the Path to Enlightenment
By: Tim Testu

Touching Ground: Devotion and Demons Along the Path to Enlightenment, Tim Testu


 
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Author: Tim Testu
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781614293330
Publication Date: 2018


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The vivid story of a hippie, a carpenter, a Vietnam vet, an alcoholic, a marine engineer, and a great dad who battled his demons on the Buddhist path.
From October 16, 1973, to August 17, 1974, Tim Testu walked all the way from San Francisco to Seattle, bowing his head to the ground every three steps. And that's not even the best part of his story.
Tim Testu was one of the very first Americans to take ordination in Chinese Zen Buddhism. His path from getting kicked out of school to joyriding in stolen boats in the Navy to squatting in an anarchist commune to wholehearted spiritual engagement in a strict Buddhist monastery mis equal parts rollicking adventure and profound spiritual memoir.
Touching Ground is simultaneously larger than life; even as Tim finds his spiritual home with his teacher, the legendary Chan master Hsuan Hua, he nonetheless continues to struggle to overcome his addictions and his very human shortcomings.
Tim never did anything halfway, including both drinking and striving for liberation. He died of leukemia in 1998 after packing ten lifetimes into fifty two years.


Touching Ground: Devotion and Demons Along the Path to Enlightenment, Tim Testu, Wisdom Publications, paperback, 2018, 200 Pages, $17.95

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