Two Zen Classics (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

The
strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen
training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible
in words. The two works translated in this book,
Mumonkan
(The
Gateless Gate
)
and
Hekiganroku
(The Blue Cliff Record),
both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most
frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. They
are still used today in a variety of practice lineages, from traditional zendos
to modern Zen centers. In a completely new translation, together with original
commentaries, the well-known Zen teacher Katsuki Sekida brings to these works
the same fresh and pragmatic approach that made his
Zen
Training

so successful. The insights of a lifetime of Zen practice and his familiarity
with both Eastern and Western ways of thinking make him an ideal interpreter of
these texts.