The Ceasing of Notions: An Early Zen Text from the Dunhuang by Venerable Myokyo-ni, Michelle Bromley, Martin Collcutt, Soko

By Venerable Myokyo-ni, Michelle Bromley, Martin Collcutt, Soko Morinaga

One of the writings from the Dunhuang Caves, found within the mid-twentieth Century, are the Zen identical of the useless Sea Scrolls--ancient texts unknown for hundreds of years. The Ceasing of Notions is one such textual content. It takes a distinct shape: a discussion among imaginary figures, a grasp and his disciple, within which the disciple tenaciously pursues the master's pity utterances with follow-up questions that propel the discussion towards ever extra profound insights. And those questions turn out to be the reader's own. Soko Morinaga brings alive this compact and tremendous textual content along with his personal vibrant commentary.

This quantity additionally features a beneficiant choice from Morinaga's acclaimed autobiography, beginner to grasp: An Ongoing Lesson within the volume of my very own Stupidity.

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3. Dialog über das Auslöschen der Anschauung (Frankfurt am Main: R. G. Fischer Verlag, 1987). 4. , A Dialogue on Contemplation Extinguished: Translated from the Chueh-kuan lun, an Early Chinese Zen Text from Tun Huang (Kyoto: Institute for Zen Studies, 1973). 5. , Two Zen Classics: Mumonkan and Hekiganroku (New York: Weatherhill, 1977). 6. William M. Bodiford, Soto Zen in Medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993). 7. Thomas Cleary, Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2000).

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