[PDF.71np] The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers (New York Review Books Classics)

The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers (New York Review Books Classics)

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 | #490277 in Books |  2016-12-06 |  2016-12-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.70 x5.10l,.81 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| The perfect gift for that Zen Buddhist in your life who always wants "nothing" as a present|By James Kenney|The perfect gift for that Zen Buddhist in your life who always wants "nothing" as a present. This is about as close as you can get. This book supposedly reveals the "secret answers behind the koans," those famous riddles of Zen practice, such as "What is the sound of one| |“The very strain of koan meditation [found in The Sound of the One Hand] is not unlike the self-imposed strain of a creative mathematician, writer, or artist. Such a person deliberately sets himself difficult problems, and deliberately renews them

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...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers (New York Review Books Classics)   |  Yoel Hoffman. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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