- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Arkana; New edition edition (29 Aug 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140192670
- ISBN-13: 978-0140192674
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 232,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Zen Buddhism conveys its profound truths through epigrams, parable and brief enigmatic and often amusing stories of the masters. In addition to "101 Zen Stories", this volume contains "The Gateless Gate", a collection of "koans" or puzzles that students used to attune their minds to enlightenment, and "10 Bulls", an illustrated account of a bull-hunt which symbolizes the ascending stages of awareness.
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NAN-IN, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Read the first page
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43 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is undoubtedly the best book I have. If you have an interest in human/spiritual philosphy, Zen and Buddhism are not religions, then you have to read this book. The first part is my favourite, full of little stories that challenge your thinking and open you up to new ideas. Congratulations should go to both the editor and the translator for such fine work. When are we going to see more? I have read and re-read this book for at least the last decade and have given several copies away. It should be put into hotels everywhere.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Anyone familiar with koans will find that they know most of what's in this book. The most valuable bit to me was the 112 keys conversation between Shiva and Devi that Osho talks about in the Book of Secrets. It is a brilliant translation of this work, and I have found no other book or website that reproduces this translation.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Paul Reps has compiled the nearest equivalent to a scripture that exists in Zen Buddhism. It has been a constant source of pleasure and support to me since I discovered it in the 80's. Oblique, wise and funny. A lot more humble and accessible than the Christian bible as well.
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it smells zen!
You keep it in your hands and you keep something very special and as important as a sutra, let's say Lankavatara (my lovely one). Read more
Published 7 months ago by telis
OK
Condition was described as Good. It was not, but bearing in mind the age, it could be stretched to Fair, no more than that. But it was intact and readable, so rate OK.
Published 13 months ago by Alsemero
TRY IF YOU WISH, BUT TRUE ZEN COMES ON ITSELF
Zen stories and koans are not to be approached logically. Sometimes the logical impasse is the answer; others, it is the story itself. Read more
Published 14 months ago by NeuroSplicer
A Constant Companion
I love this book. My copy is all warn and battered after 25+ years of use.
The stories are classics. Read more
The stories are classics. Read more
Published 20 months ago by T Mind
Wisdom of the Ancients
Paul Reps and Alan Watts (author of "The Way of Zen") were part of an influential group of Western New Age thinkers and writers who facilitated the "ancient, wise East meets young,... Read more
Published on 12 May 2010 by airmanchairman
Never leave home without it
As essential to the student of Zen/lateral thought/applied non-thought/etc. as John Cage's margin stories in "Silence" and on "Indeterminacy. Read more
Published on 20 July 1999
Best intoduction to Zen thought ever compiled
This little classic ought to be read not only by anyone interested in Zen or Eastern religion in general, but by every person interested in any sort of serious spirituality. Read more
Published on 6 Aug 1997
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