A Zen Harvest

A Zen Harvest
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 128
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ISBN-10 : 9781466895416
ISBN-13 : 1466895411
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Book Synopsis A Zen Harvest by : Soiku Shigematsu

Download or read book A Zen Harvest written by Soiku Shigematsu and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the vital aspects of traditional Rinzai Zen koan study in Japan is jakugo, or capping-phrase exercises. When Zen students have attained sufficient mastery of meditation or concentration, they are given a koan (such as the familiar “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”) to study. When the student provides a satisfactory response to the koan, he advances to the jakugo exercise–he must select a “capping phrase,” usually a passage from a poem among the thousands in a special anthology, the only book allowed in the monastery. One such anthology, written entirely in Chinese, was translated by noted Zen priest and scholar Soiku Shigematsu as A Zen Forest: Sayings of the Masters. Equally important is a Japanese collection, the Zenrin Segoshu, which Mr. Shigematsu now translates from the Japanese, including nearly eight hundred poems in sparkling English versions that retain the Zen implications of the verse.


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