have you read Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel? this is the book that Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance got named after, subsequently spawning a legion of imitators. it (Herrigel's book) is good and not long - he was a german philosophy professor who went to japan for several years to teach, and decided to learn archery as a way of getting closer to zen (which was apparently considered unfathomable for foreigners back in the 1950s). if you're interested, and can't/don't track down a copy before august, let me know, and i'll bring mine.

And I still want to call him sensei.
of course. heck, if i'm speaking to guruji, i never call him guruji. (i call him "Jeff".) i don't even know if he knows that behind his back i almost invariably refer to him by title rather than name.