The Zen Experience

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The jacket text says the truth of Zen has always resided in individual experience rather than in theoretical writings. The jacket text says THE ZEN EXPERIENCE illumines Zen as it was created and shaped by the personalities, perceptions, and actions of its masters over the centuries. The jacket text speaks of the twin roots of Zen in Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism.

The text says the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove were men part of a larger movement known as the School of Pure Conversation. The text says the Seven Sages gathered north of Loyang on the estate of one of their members, where they engaged in refined conversation, wrote poetry and music and, not incidentally, drank wine. The text quotes a passage addressed to Followers of the Way that says to slay whatever you encounter: on meeting a buddha slay the buddha, on meeting a patriarch slay the patriarch.

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Author: Thomas Hoover
Language: English
Genre: History
Formats: EPUB

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