New PDF release: Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master

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By Stephen Mitchell

“Somebody comes into the Zen middle with a lighted cigarette, walks as much as the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. you're status there. What are you able to do?” this can be a challenge that Zen grasp Seung Sahn is keen on posing to his American scholars who attend his Zen facilities. shedding Ashes at the Buddha is a pleasant, irreverent, and infrequently hilariously humorous dwelling list of the discussion among Korean Zen grasp Seung Sahn and his American scholars. inclusive of dialogues, tales, formal Zen interviews, Dharma speeches, and letters utilizing the Zen Master’s real phrases in spontaneous, dwelling interplay together with his scholars, this ebook is a clean presentation of the Zen educating approach to “instant discussion” among grasp and pupil which, by utilizing astonishment and paradox, results in an knowing of final reality.

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