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

Paul Reps

Paperback | Pages: 216 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 6855 Users | 239 Reviews

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Original Title:	Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
ISBN:	0804831866 (ISBN13: 9780804831864)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Japan

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When Zen Flesh, Zen Bones was published in 1957 it became an instant sensation with an entire generation of readers who were just beginning to experiment with Zen. Over the years it has inspired leading American Zen teachers, students, and practitioners. Its popularity is as high today as ever. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones is a book that offers a collection of accessible, primary Zen sources so that readers can struggle over the meaning of Zen for themselves. It includes 101 Zen Stories, a collection of tales that recount actual experiences of Chinese and Japanese Zen teachers over a period of more than five centuries; The Gateless Gate, the famous thirteenth-century collection of Zen koans; Ten Bulls, a twelfth century commentary on the stages of awareness leading to enlightenment; and Centering, a 4,000 year-old teaching from India that some consider to be the roots of Zen.

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Title	:	Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
Author	:	Paul Reps
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 216 pages
Published	:	September 15th 1998 by Tuttle Publishing (first published 1957)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Religion. Buddhism. Zen. Nonfiction. Spirituality

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I am not a student of Zen, but I enjoyed this collection. I recently took it on a bike tour with my partner, and we read from the 101 Zen Stories and The Gateless Gate together in the evenings. What we read left us both in a state of wonder and curiosity - and sometimes laughter and puzzlement. There aren't any interpretations in this book. No philosophical musings, no preaching or teaching. There are stories of book burnings, cat heads, irritable nuns, clueless intellectuals, and stingy

Zen is allusive.Zen uses too many unnecessary contradictions.But their hopes are that such techniques awake the deluded mind.Nonetheless, I think people just get heady about the writings and forget how simple buddhist psychology is. Thus they get intellectual and cute and use that as another blanket of self-deception.This has lots of fun stories, but it is not the Buddhism I am most fond of.I must say I have been tempted by such trips though.

I remember being quite inspired by this book, but details are sketchy. I'll have to give it a re-read, at some point.

I like it so far..., but I'm not to attached to it.

Master Okama shows his student a walking stick. -Master: What is this? -Student: A walking stick?Master Okama cuts off the student's hand. -Master: Go away and darken my towels no more.Commentary: There is no stick. There is no hand. Whoever sees this clearly will play golf with Buddha today in The 34th Heaven.

"My review/What I learned from this book?"I think the most appropriate answer would be "nothing".I think it's on my shelf if you want it.

One of my all time favorites. Every copy I own is well worn. I love how the stories don't state anything, but leave it up to you to interpret. The moon can not be stolen and A Parable are two of my favorites.http://books.google.com/books?id=m9CC...