Rent The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth

Synopsis

The difficulty of writing and the difficulty of living meet in Natalie Goldberg's memoir THE GREAT FAILURE. Goldberg's earlier works, WRITING DOWN THE BONES and WILD MIND, are cherished and passed along by her writing students, who find her spiritual approach to be inspiring and helpful in unblocking the creative urge. In THE GREAT FAILURE, Natalie confronts her feelings about two major figures in her life and their stunning transgressions: her father (the bartender) who violated her trust, and her revered Zen teacher Katagiri Roshi, who she learns had relations with his female students. This is complicated by the fact that she had written with great affection about Katagiri's teachings and of his death in her earlier memoir, LONG QUIET HIGHWAY. Goldberg honestly assesses her relationship with her father, with her teacher, and with herself, and searches, with difficulty, for balance in her spiritual practice and her writing.

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