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__A Heart Blown Open__ chronicles the extraordinary journey of Zen master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi, whose life landed him in prison long before he landed in a monastery. Experience the successes and failures that led him to found an entirely new form of Buddhism called Mondo Zen. Starting from an abusive and alcoholic home in Wisconsin, Kelly becomes a major force in the counterculture of the 1960s and one of its biggest manufacturers of LSD. He ends up on the run for five years before serving time in a federal prison, and then goes on to spend six years in a Zen monastery. In his fiftieth year, he becomes a recognized Zen master in his own right, but the real journey is just about to begin. Extraordinary in their playfulness, depravity, and liberating insight, Jun Po's life events swirl together to underscore and illuminate the environment from which one of the most controversial masters of the American Zen scene has emerged. __A Heart Blown Open__ constitutes a powerful synthesis of Eastern contemplative wisdom and Western psychological insight and is as entertaining as it is inspirational. **Winner of the 2013 Silver Award for Excellence from Nautilus Book Awards.**

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Author

Keith Martin-Smith

Publisher

Divine Arts

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781615931231

Category

religious

Subjects

Memoir, Philosophy, Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (73 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14