Zen Antics: A Hundred Stories of Enlightenment
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Book Overview
Throughout Zen history, stories and anecdotes of Zen masters and their students have been used as teaching devices to exemplify the enlightened spirit. Unlike many of the baffling dialogues between Zen masters preserved in the koan literature, the stories retold here are penetratingly simple but with a richness and subtlety that make them worth reading again and again. This collection includes more than one hundred such stories--many appearing here in English for the first time--drawn from a wide variety of sources and involving some of the best-known Zen masters, such as Hakuin, Bankei, and Shosan. Also presented are stories and anecdotes involving famous Zen artists and poets, such as Sengai and Basho.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0877739447
ISBN13:9780877739449
Release Date:November 1993
Publisher:Shambhala
Length:116 Pages
Weight:0.39 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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Cleary again reveals the archetypal Zen message
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Zen Antics, Thomas Cleary Zen Antics, by drawing on a wide range of sources to serve up the truth of reality, is itself a manifestation of the archetypal Zen message. "Seeing your nature is Zen." Say the great Zen masters, and here, Thomas Cleary offers all of us an opportunity to do just that by gazing into the mirror of the Zen wisdom illustrated in these wonderful stories. Cleary has collected and translated dozens of many important stories attributed to the great characters of Zen history. All Zen students would do well to familiarize themselves with these most time-tested, stories illustrating the authentic teachings of Zen. These stories highlight the truth of Zen, sometimes shaking up the entire Buddhist establishment, always shaking up our own personal biases.
Zen Antics takes scholarly claptrap out of Buddhism
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Zen Antics are 100 short stories about famous Zen Masters such as Hakuin, Bankei, and Shosan and the tricks and pranks they use to point directly at their students minds so that they might realize enlightenment. Also includes stories of wandering monks and the adventures they encountered on their journeys. With stories like "The Drunken Buudha" and "Wiping a Buddha's Ass", these stories are anything but orthodox. Highly recommended.
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