{"product_id":"slender-volumes","title":"Slender Volumes","description":"\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\" style=\"transition-timing-function: ease; transition-duration: 0.6s; transition-delay: 0.335294s;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlender Volumes\u003c\/em\u003e locates the cypress trees of Buddhist folklore in Onehunga and the teachings of the Zen tradition along its foreshore. Elaborating on kōans collected by poet-philosopher Eihei Dōgen, each poem fastens centuries and distances together to find insight in everyday things: seagulls on a handrail, insects drinking from a pan of water, sump oil glistening in a white bucket. Clear-sighted and compassionate, \u003cem\u003eSlender Volumes\u003c\/em\u003e recovers what it means to be intimate with our surroundings and to meet the particulars of our world with perfect curiosity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\" style=\"transition-timing-function: ease; transition-duration: 0.6s; transition-delay: 0.352941s;\"\u003eRichard von Sturmer is a writer, performer and filmmaker who is well known for having written the lyrics to Blam Blam Blam’s “There is No Depression in New Zealand”. He is a teacher of Zen Buddhism and the co-founder of the Auckland Zen Centre. Slender Volumes is his tenth collection of writings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44139399217349,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/9781067018900.jpg?v=1728788803","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/slender-volumes","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}