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Unlocking the Zen Koan

1997-09-24 Religion
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Release : 1997-09-24
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Download or read book Unlocking the Zen Koan written by . This book was released on 1997-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elusive and enigmatic, zen koans have long puzzled people with their surprise meanings hidden in simple tales. Now one of America's finest translators of Asian philosophy provides a brillian new translation of the 12th century Wumenguan, the most popular of Chinese Zen koans. In Unlocking the Zen Koan (originally published as No Boundary), Thomas Cleary translates directly from the Chinese and interprets Zen Master Wumen's text and commentaries in verse and prose on the inner meaning of the koans. Cleary then gives us other great Chinese Zen masters' comments in prose or verse on the same koan. Cleary's probing, analytic commentaries wrestle with meaning and shading, explaining principles and practices. Five different steps to follow in reading the koan being with its use as a single abrupt perception, and lead progressively to more intellectual readings, illustrating the fixations which stand in the way of a true Zen understanding.

No Barrier

1993 Buddhism
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Release : 1993
Genre : Buddhism
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Download or read book No Barrier written by Huikai. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Barrier

1993
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Book Synopsis No Barrier by : Thomas F. Cleary

Download or read book No Barrier written by Thomas F. Cleary. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classics of Buddhism and Zen: Transmission of Light, Unlocking the Zen Koan, The Original Face, Timeless Spring, Zen Antics, Record of Things Heard, Sleepless Nights

2001 Buddhism
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Release : 2001
Genre : Buddhism
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Book Synopsis Classics of Buddhism and Zen: Transmission of Light, Unlocking the Zen Koan, The Original Face, Timeless Spring, Zen Antics, Record of Things Heard, Sleepless Nights by : Thomas F. Cleary

Download or read book Classics of Buddhism and Zen: Transmission of Light, Unlocking the Zen Koan, The Original Face, Timeless Spring, Zen Antics, Record of Things Heard, Sleepless Nights written by Thomas F. Cleary. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents instructions, meditation guides, quotations, letters, essays, dialogues, and other writings by Zen masters over the centuries that were translated and published over a period of thirty years.

Bring Me the Rhinoceros

2008-11-11 Religion
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Release : 2008-11-11
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Book Synopsis Bring Me the Rhinoceros by : John Tarrant

Download or read book Bring Me the Rhinoceros written by John Tarrant. This book was released on 2008-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and playful exploration of the Zen koan tradition that reveals how everyday paradoxes are an integral part of our spiritual journey Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells more than a dozen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient wisdom. Koans show that you don’t have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and generally subverting unhappiness. Author and Zen teacher John Tarrant brings the heart of the koan tradition out into the open, reminding us that the old wisdom remains as vital as ever, a deep resource available to anyone in any place or time.

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