First, the good. It's mostly pretty clearly written, with only occasional excursions into obscurantism. Furthermore, a focus on the precepts makes for a more usefully-practical book than one that is more centred around the practice of zazen. Where I struggled with the book, though, was in the sense that Anderson is so stuck within the framework of traditional Zen, that he can't see beyond it to criticize it. The chapter on Right Speech seems particularly weak in this regard.