The Pocket Zen Reader

Thomas Cleary

ISBN 10: 157062447X / ISBN 13: 9781570624476

Edité par Shambhala, 1999

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Synopsis :

Unusual book

Présentation de l'éditeur: Zen has inspired and uplifted the minds of people in all walks of life: artists, poets, and philosophers; political, religious, and military leaders; men and women, young and old. Buddhists from other schools studied the impartial way of Zen. So did followers of other religions, including Confucianists, Taoists, and Shintoists—and, in our own time, Christians and Jews—who have used Zen techniques to rediscover their own traditions.

Here are a thousand years of Zen teaching, presented for the modern reader in a way that preserves the dynamic flavor of these talks, sayings, and records of heart-to-heart encounters. From the earliest adepts to the last of the great masters, The Pocket Zen Reader is a compendium of Zen at its best. Here are Zen's principles, purposes, and practices, its perils, pitfalls, and perversions. Self-understanding, methods of meditation, the use of koans, spiritual awakening, and integration with everyday life are all found here in one small volume. This miniature book is an abridgment of Cleary's larger Zen collection, Teachings of Zen.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Pocket Zen Reader
Éditeur : Shambhala
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket