Name: Zen flesh, zen bones
ISBN: 9780804831864

Zen flesh, zen bones

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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hprotagonistMar 2024

Brueggemann is amazing.

I would also add, in no particular order:

- wisdom of the desert (merton's translation of the sayings of the desert fathers)

- pilgrim at tinker creek; annie dillard

- goatwalking, jim corbett

- Impostors of God: Inquiries into our favorite Idols, william stringfellow

- the new testament, trans. by david bentley hart

- the sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel

- zen flesh, zen bones

- moral man, immoral society -- neibuhr

- principia discordia

- the poetry and sermons of john donne

- many other poets.

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kleer001Jun 2020

10 years ago - The Gulag Archipelago (Abridged) or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich : Solzhenitsyn

20 years ago - Meditations : Marcus Aurelius

30 years ago - Zen Flesh Zen Bones : Paul Reps

Any time: Anything by: Robert Sapolsky, John Gottman, Early Jonathan Lethem novels, Peter Clines, Margaret Atwood

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gHostsSep 2019

Agreed...

..also "Zen Flash, Zen Bones" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Flesh,_Zen_Bones

http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/cgi-bin/koan-index.pl https://terebess.hu/zen/101ZenStones.pdf

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kleer001Jul 2019

Zen flesh, Zen bones.

- Translated by Paul Reps

If I only had one book this would be it.

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kleer001Dec 2018

Not a single one I haven't read more than three times...

"Godel Escher Bach: An eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hoffstadter

"Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" a collection by Paul Reps

"Slaughterhouse Five" Kurt Vonnegut

"Replay" by Ken Grimwood

"Maus I" & "Maus II" by Art Spiegleman

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wpietriMay 2018

Absolutely. I love this bit:

> Just before she retired, Mr. Hyams said he saw the 96-year-old Ms. Bloom trudging out of the subway and headed to work in the middle of a fierce snowstorm. “I said, ‘What are you doing here?’ and she said, ‘Why, where should I be?’” he recalled.

It reminds me of a favorite bit from "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones":

> Hyakujo, the Chinese Zen master, used to labor with his pupils even at the age of eighty, trimming the gardens, cleaning the grounds, and pruning the trees.

> The pupils felt sorry to see the old teacher working so hard, but they knew he would not listen to their advice to stop, so they hid away his tools.

> That day the master did not eat. The next day he did not eat, nor the next. "He may be angry because we have hidden his tools," the pupils surmised. "We had better put them back."

> The day they did, the teacher worked and ate the same as before. In the evening he instructed them: "No work, no food."

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