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Zen Sand

Victor Sogen Hori
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Author : Victor Sogen Hori
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780824865672

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Zen Sand is a classic collection of verses aimed at aiding practitioners of kôan meditation to negotiate the difficult relationship between insight and language. As such it represents a major contribution to both Western Zen practice and English-language Zen scholarship. In Japan the traditional Rinzai Zen kôan curriculum includes the use of jakugo, or "capping phrases." Once a monk has successfully replied to a kôan, the Zen master orders the search for a classical verse to express the monk’s insight into the kôan. Special collections of these jakugo were compiled as handbooks to aid in that search. Until now, Zen students in the West, lacking this important resource, have been severely limited in carrying out this practice. Zen Sand combines and translates two standard jakugo handbooks and opens the way for incorporating this important tradition fully into Western Zen practice. For the scholar, Zen Sand provides a detailed description of the jakugo practice and its place in the overall kôan curriculum, as well as a brief history of the Zen phrase book. This volume also contributes to the understanding of East Asian culture in a broader sense.

The Koan

Steven Heine,Dale S. Wright
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Author : Steven Heine,Dale S. Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198027805

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Koans are enigmatic spiritual formulas used for religious training in the Zen Buddhist tradition. Arguing that our understanding of the koan tradition has been severely limited, contributors to this collection examine previously unrecognized factors in the formation of this tradition, and highlight the rich complexity and diversity of koan practice and literature.

The Koan

Steven Heine,Dale S. Wright
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Author : Steven Heine,Dale S. Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190283520

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The Koan by Steven Heine,Dale S. Wright Pdf

Koans are enigmatic spiritual formulas used for religious training in the Zen Buddhist tradition. Arguing that our understanding of the koan tradition has been severely limited, contributors to this collection examine previously unrecognized factors in the formation of this tradition, and highlight the rich complexity and diversity of koan practice and literature.

The Book of Equanimity

Gerry Shishin Wick
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Author : Gerry Shishin Wick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780861713875

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A thought-provoking collection of Zen koans culls the wisdom of thisnfluencial brand of Buddhism to present a series of "teaching stories" thatresent spiritual wisdom in interesting ways. Original.

The Book of Mu

James Ishmael Ford,Melissa Myozen Blacker
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Author : James Ishmael Ford,Melissa Myozen Blacker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780861716432

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Examines the Zen principle of mu and presents the writings of over forty teachers on the practice of mu.

Introduction to Zen Koans

James Ishmael Ford
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Author : James Ishmael Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614293156

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An indispensible guide to koans, teaching the reader about the importance of lineage, the practice of “just sitting,” and koan practice as paths to awakening. “This marvelous book opens the treasure house of Zen and yet, happily, does not dispel its mystery. James Ford, an excellent storyteller and longtime Zen practitioner, presents a detailed and beautiful description of the craft of zazen, including “just sitting” and various forms of breath meditation—but focuses primarily on koan introspection. The power of koans, these 'public cases' from China, has never ceased to enrich my own experience of Zen. They are a medium of exploration of the history, culture, and view of Zen, but most importantly are a medium of awakening. James Ford is fundamentally a koan person, and for this, the book is particularly rich, opening the practice of koans in a splendid way. I am grateful for his long experience as a teacher and practitioner of this rare and powerful practice. Since the word koan has found its way into popular English usage, I am grateful too for the more nuanced and fertile view of koans that Ford presents. His definition of the word is telling: “a koan points to something of deep importance, and invites us to stand in that place.” He has also has created a wonderful translation of the Heart Sutra, Zen’s central scripture—and carefully opens up the heart of the Heart Sutra through scholarship and practice. Rich in textual sources and woven throughout with the perspectives of contemporary teachers, Introduction to Zen Koans sheds new light on ancient teachings. Through it, the reader will discover the importance of lineage, the traceless traces of the Zen ancestors, and the places of “just sitting” and koan practice as paths to awakening, as the great doorways into Zen.” —from the foreword by Joan Halifax

Dōgen and the Kōan Tradition

Steven Heine
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Author : Steven Heine
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791417735

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This book has three major goals in critically examining the historical and philosophical relation between the writings of Dōgen and the Zen koan tradition. First, it introduces and evaluates recent Japanese scholarship concerning Dōgen's two Shōbōgenzō texts, the Japanese (Kana) collection of ninety-two fascicles on Buddhist topics and the Chinese (Mana) collection of three hundred koan cases also known as the Shōbōgenzō Sanbyakusoku. Second, it develops a new methodology for clarifying the development of the koan tradition and the relation between intellectual history and multifarious interpretations of koan cases based on postmodern literary criticism. Third, the book's emphasis on a literary critical methodology challenges the conventional reading of koans stressing the role of psychological impasse culminating in silence.

Bring Me the Rhinoceros

John Tarrant
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Author : John Tarrant
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834823497

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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. 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.

Like Cats and Dogs

Steven Heine
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Author : Steven Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199837281

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Steven Heine offers a compelling examination of the Mu Koan, widely considered to be the single best known and most widely circulated and transmitted koan record of the Zen school of Buddhism.

Zen Koan as a Means of Attaining Enlightenment

Dai Z. Suzuki
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Author : Dai Z. Suzuki
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781462901197

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Zen Koan as a Means of Attaining Enlightenment Presents the history and application of the koan exercise—the means for realizing enlightenment—with depth and clarity. The koan system has effected a special development in Zen Buddhism, and is a unique contribution to the history of religious consciousness. When the importance of the koan is understood, it may be said that more than half of Zen is understood.

Sound Of 1 Hand

Out Of Print
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Author : Out Of Print
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975-12-17
Category : Koan
ISBN : 0465080790

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When The Sound of the One Hand came out in Japan in 1916 it caused a scandal. Zen was a secretive practice, its wisdom relayed from master to novice in strictest privacy. That a handbook existed recording not only the riddling koans that are central to Zen teaching but also detailing the answers to them seemed to mark Zen as rote, not revelatory. For all that, The Sound of the One Hand opens the door to Zen like no other book. Including koans that go back to the master who first brought the koan teaching method from China to Japan in the eighteenth century, this book offers, in the words of the translator, editor, and Zen initiate Yoel Hoffmann, the clearest, most detailed, and most correct picture of Zen that can be found. What we have here is an extraordinary introduction to Zen thought as lived thought, a treasury of problems, paradoxes, and performance that will appeal to artists, writers, and philosophers as well as Buddhists and students of religion."

Sitting with Koans

John Daido Loori
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Author : John Daido Loori
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861717644

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The Zen tradition has just two main meditative practices: shikantaza, or "just sitting"; and introspection guided by the powerful Zen teaching stories called koans. Following in the tradition of The Art of Just Sitting (endorsed as a "A book we have needed for a long, long time"), this new anthology from John Daido Loori illuminates the subtle practice of koan study from many different points of view. Includes writings by: Robert Aitken William Bodiford Robert Buswell Roko Sherry Chayat Francis Dojun Cook Eihei Dogen Heinrich Dumoulin Hakuin Ekaku Victor Sogen Hori Keizan Jokin Philip Kapleau Chung-fen Ming-Pen Taizan Maezumi Dennis Genpo Merzel Soen Nakagawa Ruth Fuller Sasaki Sokei-an Sasaki Nyogen Senzaki Zenkei Shibayama Eido Shimano Philip Yampolsky Hakuun Yasutani Wayne Yokoyama Katsushiro Yoshizawa

The Zen Koan

Isshu Miura,Ruth Fuller Sasaki
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Author : Isshu Miura,Ruth Fuller Sasaki
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1966-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780544108998

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The first scholarly examination in any language of the historical development and traditional method of koan study in Zen Buddhism. Foreword by Ruth Fuller Sasaki; Index; ink drawings by Hakuin Ekaku.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.

The Book of Householder Koans

Eve Myonen Marko,Wendy Egyoku Nakao
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Author : Eve Myonen Marko,Wendy Egyoku Nakao
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 194862608X

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Zen koans, beginning some 1500 years ago, refer to stories or questions arising in encounters between monks and old Chinese and Japanese masters, and include commentaries designed to help the Zen practitioner awaken. Koans like Hakuin'sWhat is the sound of one hand clapping? are well-known, and the word koan has even gone mainstream. Thousands of classic koans emerged from the lives of monks living inside a Chinese or Japanese culture, and the commentaries on those koans contain poetic elements and images that have proved challenging for many Westerners. The Book of Householder Koans is a collection of koans created by 21st century Zen practitioners living a lay life in the West. The koans deal with the challenges of relationships, raising children, work, money, love, loss, old age, and death, and come from practitioners across three continents, and with commentaries by two Western teachers. The collection is based on the premise that our lives as householders contain situations rich with challenge and grit, the equivalents of old Zen masters' shouts or blows meant to sweep the ground right from under their students. They become koans, or koan practice, when they jolt us out of our usual way of thinking, when we're no longer observers of our lives but plunge in, closing the gap between ourselves and the situation we face.

Elegant Failure

Richard Shrobe
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Author : Richard Shrobe
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930485518

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Zen koans are stories of exchanges between Zen masters and their disciples at the moment of enlightenment or near-enlightenment. These stories have long fascinated Western readers because of their wisdom, humor, and enigmatic quality. Drawing on over thirty years of practice and teaching, Richard Shrobe (himself a recognized Zen Master) has selected twenty-two cases from The Blue Cliff Record, Book of Serenity, and Wu-men-kuan that he has found to be deeply meaningful and helpful for meditation practice. In Elegant Failure, he provides a wealth of background information and personal anecdotes for each koan that help to illuminate its meaning without detracting from its paradoxical nature. As Shrobe reminds us, "The main core of Zen teaching is the bare bones of what is there. In a certain sense, embellishing a story takes away from the central teaching: Don’t embellish anything, just be with it as it is."