Afterzen : experiences of a Zen student out on his ear / Janwillem van de Wetering
- Bib ID:
- 1385247
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Van de Wetering, Janwillem, 1931-
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : St. Martins Press, 1999
- 194 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0312204930
- Summary:
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"In Afterzen, the follow-up to his The Empty Mirror and A Glimpse of Nothingness, van de Wetering provides unorthodox solutions to a collection of classical koans found in Walter Nowick's The Wisteria Tangle. Van de Wetering gives them his own distinctive touch of humor, down-to-earth reality, and tough spirituality in the context of meetings and adventures with personalities "collaged from bits and pieces of teachers and fellow students who kindly came my way." However, the dream or actual presence of his first teacher, Roshi, "a sage illuminated by humorous equanimity," is "as true to life as my malfunctioning keyboard dares to describe.""--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- The Good-Bye Koan
- What Happened to Harry?
- Who the Hell Was Buddha?
- Sixty Zen Masters Can't Be Wrong
- Joshu and the Old Woman
- Then Carry It Along
- Seeing into Your Nature and Other Pastimes
- Bad Cop, Good Cop
- There Are Lots of Little Ends
- Liberating Western Thinking
- Tomorrow Nobody Has Heard of Buddha
- Gurus Waft in and Out - Only the Not-Guru is Real
- 999 Ways of No-Direction
- It's the Only Way Rimpoche Could Stay Here
- The Master's Feet Turn Right in Front of Your Head
- Dreams
- Three Nice Things
- Emptiness Is Form
- The Koans.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Religious life -- Zen Buddhism
- Also Titled:
- After Zen
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1999
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