In One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing My Self and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat, American teacher of Korean Zen Jane Dobisz (Zen Master Bon Yeon), recalls her first solitary meditation stint in the woods. Luckily, this is not just a recounting of a winter's worth of cabin fever. Instead, Dobisz takes us into her cabin, and into her mind, as she tries--at least temporarily--to live a Walden-like existence. All the bowing and meditating and wood-chopping that is part and parcel of her retreat is hardly first nature, but the good-humored and tenacious Dobisz is able to adapt, and to relate her hundred days with moving insight and humanity. Her Solitude in fact offers us all a chance to commune with her and to look inside and rediscover our own grace.

Front Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Arriving -- Where Are You Going? -- The Alarm -- Up and Down -- Three Pounds of Flax -- The Great Way Has No Gate -- Wooden Fish -- Go Wash Your Bowls -- Grace -- Evening Practice -- A Diamond Sword -- Rolling Up Sleeves -- A Seamless Monument -- A Finger Pointing to the Moon -- Venturing into the Unknown -- Splitting Logs -- The Chickadee Sermon -- Great Question, Great Faith, Great Courage -- Go Ask a Tree -- Ten Dumb Years -- Cognition Is Not the Path -- Bath Day -- Hard Training. Sun-Face Buddha, Moon-Face BuddhaWaiting for a Sweet One -- You Decide -- Un Mun's Cake -- Who's There? -- A Water Buffalo Passing Through a Window -- Fake Dream Craziness -- Un Mun's Utmost Master -- The Willow Is Green, the Flowers Are Red -- A Lotus Grows in the Mud -- Spring Comes -- For You -- Sangha -- Nature's Genius -- Peace Isn't Luck -- Wild Fox Spirit -- Rapture -- Sink into This World -- Very Soft Is True Strength -- Everything Just Like This Is Buddha -- Returning Home -- Epilogue -- The Great Dharani -- Acknowledgments