Publication
Imprint: New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1976. Series: The Wisdom of (New Directions Paperback N415). Responsibility: Selected and translated from the Japanese by Irmgard Schloegl (Myokyo-ni) with a foreword by Christian Humphreys. OCLC Number: 1975145. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xiv, 80 pages ; 21 cm.
Call number
GT-B-Z / Schlo
ISBN
0811206092 / 9780811206099
Original publication date
1975
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: A companion book to Thomas Merton's The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings of the Desert Fathers and Geoffrey Parrinder The Wisdom of the Forest: Selections from the Hindu "Upanishads."
Table of Contents: Foreword
Preface
The wisdom of the zen masters
Stories and sayings
FY1992 /
Table of Contents: Foreword
Preface
The wisdom of the zen masters
Stories and sayings
FY1992 /
Physical description
xiv, 80 p.; 21 cm
Description
If in every mind burns a flame of the Buddha's Enlightenment," Christmas Humphreys writes in his foreword to The Wisdom of the Zen Masters, "there is nothing to seek and nothing to acquire. We are enlightened, and all the words in the world will not give us what we already have. The man of Zen, therefore, is concerned with one thing only, to become aware of what he already is... " The task of the Japanese Zen master has been to guide his pupils in their awakening. The means used vary - from severe physical discipline to the proposition of enigmatic riddles, or koans - but always to the same end, Enlightenment: experiencing the Great Death of the worldly "I." "
Language
Original language
Japanese