Essential Zen - Hardcover
The best collection of Zen wisdom and wit since Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, this lively introduction to Zen Buddhism has it all. Koans, sayings, poems, and stories by Eastern and American Zen teachers and students capture the delightful, challenging, mystifying, mind-stopping, outrageous, and scandalous heart of Zen. 6 illustrations.
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Kazuaki Nahashi is an artist, translator, and writer whose books include 'Moon in a Dewdrop: Writing of Zen Master Dogen' and 'Brush Mind'.
Tensho David Schneider is an ordained Zen priest and the author of 'Street Zen'.
"I am grateful...for the gift of this splendid collection. Through (these) pages, the mind of Zen- permeable and particular, timeless and new-born, many and one- happily wanders. An ox eating flowers, flowers eating an ox- here, taste for yourself"
JANE HIRSHFIELD, editor of 'Women in Praise of the Sacred'
"This is the kind of book that you can keep nearby, open at random, and be pleasantly surprised by over and over. The equal time and attention given to the growing body of significant teaching from contemporary masters and practitioners keep the collection fresh; with its firm grounding in the classic texts, it brings Zen alive to the present moment. Highly recommended"
LIBRARY JOURNAL
"A pithy compendium of subtle dharmic gists...A tool kit for survival in samsara. I bow to its poetry, wit, and wisdom"
ANNE WALDMAN, director, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute
"'Essential Zen' stands as one of the happy paradoxes in which Zen abounds"
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BOOK REVIEW
An introduction to Zen Buddhism which features koans, stories, quotes and examples, accompanied by explanatory notes and writings by American Zen teachers such as Charlotte Joko Beck, Robert Aitken and Issan Dorsey.
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- PublisherCastle Books,US
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0785807217
- ISBN 13 9780785807216
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages174
- EditorTanahashi Kazuaki, Schneider David
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