C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

          Ever since Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind was first published back in 1970—when very few folks in the West even knew what the heck Zen actually was; not that many know very much about real Zen even today—no telling how many Zen, Buddhist, or just “spiritual” books have been published since that time with similar-sounding titles.  Plenty of them are outright rips on Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by using a four-word title with two words followed by a comma and then another couple words to round it off.  Just the other day I read one titled Zen Mind, Franciscan Joy in my personal favorite sub-genre of Zen, “Catholic Zen.”  Heck, while perusing the bookstore a couple weeks ago, I even came across one with the title Zen Mind, Zen Horse that was apparently about the “spirituality” of horse training.  When I saw it, I wondered what the ranchers and cowboys of my ancestry—Texans through and through—wou...