Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans
Trevor Leggett
Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of pure Zen in Japan. Created by Zen Masters for their warrior pupils, the Japanese Koans use incidents from everyday life - a broken tea-cup, a water-jar, a cloth - to bring the warrior pupils of the Samurai to the Zen realization. Their aim is to enable a widening of consciouness beyond the illusions of the limited self, and a joyful inspiration in life - a state that has been compared to being free under a blue sky after imprisonment.
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Рік:
2003
Видання:
2
Видавництво:
Routledge
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
219
ISBN 10:
0415284643
ISBN 13:
9780415284646
Файл:
PDF, 969 KB
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english, 2003