Website review: Zen Koans - AshidaKim.com
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xix rated 13 months ago- An efficiently designed site. 101 koans right at your fingertips. Should be enough to keep you not-thinking for a while . . .
- cannabuddy rated 13 months ago
- Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.
- Garth-Alex rated 13 months ago
19. The First Principle When one goes to Obaku temple in Kyoto he sees carved over the gate the words "The First Principle". The letters are unusually large, and those who appreciate calligraphy always admire them as being a mastepiece. They were drawn by Kosen two hundred years ago. When the master drew them he did so on paper, from which the workmen made the large carving in wood. As Kosen sketched the letters a bold pupil was with him who had made several gallons of ink for the calligraphy and who never failed to criticise his master's work. "That is not good," he told Kosen after his first effort. "How is this one?" "Poor. Worse than before," pronounced the pupil. Kosen patiently wrote one sheet after another until eighty-four First Principles had accumulated, still without the approval of the pupil. Then when the young man stepped outside for a few moments, Kosen thought: "Now this is my chance to escape his keen eye," and he wrote hurriedly, with a mind free from distraction: "The First Principle." "A masterpiece," pronounced the pupil.
- AuntClair rated 14 months ago
- 101 Zen Koans ~ enjoy Zen musings and proverbs .
- fraterzaza rated 14 months ago
- I like Koans but I also really love the Soto schools simple view of Zazen being all one needs for illumination. Why concentrate on parables when one hasnt bothered to sit correctly with ones mind? Cut the cat in whole.
- agentlemanhost rated 14 months ago
How can you be good for others if you are first not good for yourself? dsf . "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." ~ Author Unknown ... Please click picture
- Seanchai-peg rated 14 months ago
- What a treasure trove! Gonna take months and months to get thru just a few!
- Chromex rated 14 months ago
- From the page: "These koans, or parables, were translated into English from a book called the Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand), written late in the thirteenth century by the Japanese Zen teacher Muju (the "non-dweller"), and from anecdotes of Zen monks taken from various books published in Japan around the turn of the 20th century."
- shitshitshit rated 15 months ago
- These koans, or parables, were translated into English from a book called the Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand), written late in the thirteenth century by the Japanese Zen teacher Muju (the "non-dweller"), and from anecdotes of Zen monks taken from various books published in Japan around the turn of the 20th century." i have meditated on all of these and more...its a great tool to control the chaos in the mind..all of us has been trained to have "monkey mind" http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/monkeym.pdf ..get it under control and then you can be awake...long story.. just pick one and try not to think of the answer, it WILL come to you...dont get bogged down with ritual- its just a crutch..throw them away before you depend on them..
