Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote’s first collection of poetry takes us on a whirlwind tour of an eclectic and exciting life as an actor and Zen Buddhist priest, meandering from love affairs to marriage to divorce to the '60s to psychedelic spirituality and beyond....

Shares a series of mindfulness techniques and improv exercises with masks to suppress the ego, calm the mind, and allow spontaneous playfulness and spaciousness to arise from your deepest nature Draws on Buddhist philosophy to describe how and why the exercises work Woven throughout...

Coyote provides listeners intimate portraits of mentors that shaped him - a violent, intimidating father, a be-bop Bass player who teaches him that life can be improvised....

In his energetic, funny, and intelligent memoir, Peter Coyote relives his 15-year ride through the heart of the counterculture....

“A quietly uplifting, practical view of Buddhism.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Shows how Zen offers a creative problem-solving mechanism and moral guide ideal for the stresses and problems of daily life Shares the author’s secular, vernacular interpretations of the Four Noble...