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Essential Zen
Kazuaki Tanahashi
David Schneider
出版
HarperCollins
, 1994
主題
Philosophy / Zen
Religion / General
Religion / Buddhism / General
Religion / Buddhism / Zen
ISBN
0062510460
9780062510464
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MEnp4UD2jv0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Yet the teachings of ancient Chinese masters were recorded by their students, discussed, sometimes chanted, and given out as objects of meditation or koans. And, as Kazuaki Tanahashi points out, "However weird or enigmatic they are, or perhaps because of those very qualities, Zen stories have touched the hearts of people for over a thousand years." In Essential Zen, Tanahashi and Schneider present many of the classic writings regarded as "essential" in the East Asian Zen traditions along with a vibrant assortment of American Zen stories, poems, and teachings that reflect the present flowering of Zen in the West. At turns spare, elegant, witty, deeply serious, and marvelously humorous, these are reflections on everything from practical meditation techniques and the tasks of daily life to death, the environment, and activism. Including a history of Zen and its practices, this is a wonderfully lucid, lively, and comprehensive venture into the enduring, evolving, and essential heart of Zen.