Instant Zen: Waking Up in the Present

ISBN 10: 1574530771 ISBN 13: 9781574530773

Publisher: Audio Literature, 1996

This 12th century Chinese Zen classic, taken from the lecutures of Zen Master Foyan (1067-1120) offers simple exercises in attention and thought designed to lead to the awakening of Zen insight into the real nature of self.

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About the Author

Thomas Cleary is highly regarded as one of the greatest contemporary translators of Asian texts. Among his translations are many classic texts of Buddhism, Taoism, and I Ching studies, including The Essential Tao, Awakening to the Tao, and The Buddhist I Ching. His works have been retranslated into German, Italian, French, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish, Czech, Thai, Indonesian, Mandarin, and other modern languages.

Synopsis

An English translation of the 11th-century Zen master Foyen, a radical in a climate of rigid dogmatism, who advocated a return to the original idea of Zen, a down-to-earth, liberating, living experience, a secular Zen that immerses itself in daily experience.

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