The Sound Of One Hand

Author : Out Of Print
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 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."

Author : Richard Flanagan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473545779

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The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan Pdf

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to the place of her childhood to visit her drunkard father. The shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present, changing forever his living death and her ordered life.

Author : Audrey Yoshiko Seo,Stephen Addiss
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781590305782

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The Sound of One Hand by Audrey Yoshiko Seo,Stephen Addiss Pdf

Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) is one of the most influential figures in the history of Zen. He can be considered the founder of the modern Japanese Rinzai tradition, for which he famously emphasized the importance of koan practice in awakening, and he revitalized the monastic life of his day. But his teaching was by no means limited to monastery or temple. Hakuin was the quintessential Zen master of the people, renowned for taking his teaching to all parts of society, to people in every walk of life, and his painting and calligraphy were particularly powerful vehicles for that teaching. Using traditional Buddhist images and sayings—but also themes from folklore and daily life—Hakuin created a new visual language for Zen: profound, whimsical, and unlike anything that came before. In his long life, Hakuin created many thousands of paintings and calligraphies. This art, combined with his voluminous writings, stands as a monument to his teaching, revealing why he is the most important Zen master of the past five hundred years. The Sound of One Hand is a study of Hakuin and his enduringly appealing art, illustrated with a wealth of examples of his work, both familiar pieces like “Three Blind Men on a Bridge” as well as lesser known masterworks.

Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474253819

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One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess Pdf

Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. Not for anybody, one of these days. And it's a wicked world. Average couple Janet and Howard's lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a gameshow fortune. Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much. She's quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the evening. But once Howard unleashes his photographic brain on the world, the once modest used-car salesman can't seem to stop. And what he sees as the logical conclusion to his success isn't something Janet can agree to. Burgess's 1961 darkly comic satire of drab English consumerism is adapted for the stage by Lucia Cox. This edition was published to coincide with the US premiere at the Brits Off-Broadway Festival, at 59E59 Theatre, New York, in May 2015.

Author : Georges B.J. Dreyfus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520232600

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The Sound of Two Hands Clapping by Georges B.J. Dreyfus Pdf

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Author : Toby Young
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786741724

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The Sound of No Hands Clapping by Toby Young Pdf

With a major motion picture of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People about to be released (starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, and Jeff Bridges), there has never been a better time to savor this laugh-out-loud memoir from everyone’s favorite “professional failurist.” The Sound of No Hands Clapping finds Toby pursuing a glamorous career in Hollywood while trying to balance his new life as a husband and parent. Failure-and fatherhood-have never been funnier.

Author : Sumedho
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780861715152

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The Sound of Silence by Sumedho Pdf

Ajahn Sumedho gives insights into some key Buddhist themes like awareness, consciousness, identity, relief from suffering, and mindfulness of the body.

Author : Mark Shaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682610978

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The Reporter Who Knew Too Much by Mark Shaw Pdf

Was journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? Or was her death from an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, as reported? Shaw believes Kilgallen's death has always been suspect, and unfolds a list of suspects ranging from Frank Sinatra to a Mafia don, while speculating on the possibilities of reopening the case.

Author : Richard Flanagan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525520030

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First Person by Richard Flanagan Pdf

Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book. But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running “business concerns”—which Kif worries may involve hiring hitmen from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting him—his life, his future, and the very nature of the truth. By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling, First Person is a haunting look at an age where fact is indistinguishable from fiction, and freedom is traded for a false idea of progress.

Author : Osho
Publisher : Ma Yoga Laxmi Rajneesh Foundation
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Spiritual life
ISBN : 0880506334

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Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786706317

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One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess Pdf

With film rights acquired by Francis Ford Coppola, this comic novel of instant riches is back in stock. From the author of A Clockwork Orange, One Hand Clapping is a comedy of game shows and greed, high stakes and the high life. The tragi-comedy of used car salesman Howard Shirley, his photographic brain, and the modern world's trivia and trivialities makes for vintage Burgess--at once hilarious and provocative. "Witty and shrewdly joyful."--The New York Times Book Review "A funny, pointed novel."--The New Yorker "Ingeniously and devilishly funny."--The Atlantic Monthly

Author : Katrina Goldsaito
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316271295

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The Sound of Silence by Katrina Goldsaito Pdf

"Do you have a favorite sound?" little Yoshio asks. The musician answers, "The most beautiful sound is the sound of ma, of silence." But Yoshio lives in Tokyo, Japan: a giant, noisy, busy city. He hears shoes squishing through puddles, trains whooshing, cars beeping, and families laughing. Tokyo is like a symphony hall! Where is silence? Join Yoshio on his journey through the hustle and bustle of the city to find the most beautiful sound of all.

Author : Laura Dolp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107182899

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Arvo Pärt's White Light by Laura Dolp Pdf

The first substantial volume in English to explore the impact of Arvo Pärt on contemporary music and culture.

Author : Rafe Martin
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0847818535

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One Hand Clapping by Rafe Martin Pdf

Famous short Zen stories for all ages. B/W illus.

Author : R Craig Sautter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798596030709

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The Sound of One Hand Typing by R Craig Sautter Pdf

The poems are lyrical, mythological, philosophical, political, comical and surreal. Images float in the ether of intelligent language seeking to find the Zen beyond linguistic knowledge. Witness here a passing of ages, the age of passage in seasons and lifetimes, the mystical poet alone in the depth of night, listening to The Sound of One Hand Typing.R. Craig Sautter is the author, co-author, editor of 10 other books, including Expresslanes Through the Inevitable City (poems, december press). As "poet-in-residence" for public schools in Upstate New York and for the Illinois Arts Council, he conducted poetry workshops with over 20,000 K-12 students. For nearly four decades, he has taught courses in philosophy, politics, history, literature, and creative writing at DePaul University. His teaching career began with 3rd graders from Harlem. He was 47th president of the Society of Midland Authors and served two terms on the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Advisory Board. He also writes short stories, several of which appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review.Dennis Wiss is a professional artist, photographer, and mystic, living outside of Port Townsend, Washington. DW and RCS have been friends and collaborators since third grade.