ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1971.
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings

Compiler: Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki
Illustrated with woodblock print of Tomikichiro Tokuriki


4 books in 1:
101 Zen Stories
The Gateless Gate
Ten Bulls
Centering


Fototipsko izdanje knjige iz 1957.


Tokio, Japan 1971. Tvrd povez, zaštitna kutija, ilustrovano, engleski jezik, 211 strana.
Napomena: na predlistu potpis prethodnog vlasnika; ako se to izuzme, knjiga je, bukvalno, kao nova.




WHAT is Zen?
One could say it is one of the most profound religious philosophies ever discovered in this dark world. This is true, but this is not what Zen is.
One could say it is one of the most far-reaching systems of aesthetics ever devised, leading directly to the great landscape paintings of China, to Japanese flower arrangement and tea ceremony, to the inner rhythm of the Orient. This too is all true, but this is not what Zen is.
One could turn to the last page of this book, which might well be the first, and find a blank paragraph answering the question. But even this is not the actual is of Zen.
The question can never be answered, because in the answering Zen would cease to exist. And Zen does exist, triumphantly and under many names wherever man looks for a way of life, for a religion, for an aesthetic—as this book makes abundantly cleare.
This is actually four books in one, books that would surely rank high in the canon if Zen were so non-Zen as to have scriptures. 101 ZEN STORIES recounts actual Zen experiences over a period of five centuries. THE GATELESS GATE is a 13th-century collection of the mind problems used in attaining Zen. 10 BULLS is a 12th-century commentary upon the stages of awareness leading to Zen, magnificently illustrated. And CENTERING presents a 4,000-year-old teaching of India which may well have been the roots of Zen.
Read these four books and then ask: What is Zen? Because that is what this book is about.


PAUL REPS, the compiler, is an American who has lived in many countries, including India, Norway, and Japan, and has studied many of man`s efforts to find and realize his true spiritual, stature, He is the author of several books of poems and prose, He says that he feels `the equal of each grass blade and pebble and believe it is possible to be happy though human and grown up. `

NiOGEN SENZAKI, the Buddhist scholar of international character to
whom Reps acknowledges a deep debt of gratitude and collaboration, was born in Japan. Early in life he became a `homeless monk,` wandering the land and studying from Buddbist monastery to monastery. His wanderings brought him at last to America, and for the past fifty-odd years he has lived in California, with no connection with any sect, denomination, or cathedral, radiating the free and creative spirit of Zen upon all who care to share his study, meditation, wisdom, and loving kindness.