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The Whole World Is a Single Flower: 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life With Questions and Commentary

The Whole World Is a Single Flower: 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life With Questions and Commentary

Mitchell, Stephen
Sahn, Seung

Paperback

PhilosophyBuddhism

ISBN10: 0942795172
ISBN13: 9780942795172
Publisher: Primary Point Press
Published: Nov 11 2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
[T]errific and reveals the incomparably profound, minutely subtle, and disarmingly humorous Mind of the Master. For the first time a koan collection includes Christian and Taoist koans as well as the more familiar Japanese koans. The Buddhist koans are selected from the classic collections The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Record, as well as from a large number of orally preserved koans from Korean Zen teachers. The Christian koans are derived from the poems of the German mystic known as Angelus Silesius; the Taoist koans come from the Tao Te Ching (in the translation by Stephen Mitchell, who also wrote this book's foreword). The checking questions are indeed probing and dumbfoundedness-inducing; the commentaries are uniformly brilliant and incisive.... --Tricycle Magazine

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