Dropping Ashes on the Buddha

The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn

Stephen Mitchell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1994
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press (Verlag)
978-0-8021-3052-5 (ISBN)

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"Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?" This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn is fond of posing to his American students who attend his Zen centers. Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a delightful, irreverent, and often hilariously funny living record of the dialogue between Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and his American students. Consisting of dialogues, stories, formal Zen interviews, Dharma speeches, and letters using the Zen Master's actual words in spontaneous, living interaction with his students, this book is a fresh presentation of the Zen teaching method of "instant dialogue" between Master and student which, through the use of astonishment and paradox, leads to an understanding of ultimate reality.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.4.1994
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 209 mm
Gewicht	283 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-8021-3052-6 / 0802130526
ISBN-13	978-0-8021-3052-5 / 9780802130525
Zustand	Neuware