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Title: |
Zen Traces |
| Sub-title: |
Exploring American Zen with Twain and Thoreau |
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| By (author): |
Kenneth Kraft |
| ISBN10-13: |
1589881281 : 9781589881280 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
228x152mm |
| Pages: |
178 |
| Weight: |
.264 Kg. |
| Published: |
Paul Dry Books, Inc - June 2018 |
| List Price: |
17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Subjects: |
Oriental & Indian philosophy : Buddhism : Zen Buddhism : Religious life & practice : Mind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation |
| As Zen takes root in the west, new forms arise. For centuries Zen masters have tested their students with koans and capping phrases. A koan is a spiritual paradox that must be solved intuitively. A capping phrase is a trenchant comment. Both are meditative practices that reveal deeper truths about the self and, ideally, lead to enlightenment. In Zen Traces, Buddhist scholar Kenneth Kraft plays off these practices in a new idiom. He selects passages from four sources: traditional Zen, present-day Zen, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain. When a koan-like story about a contemporary Zen teacher is paired with a pithy comment by Mark Twain, something fresh emerges. |
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“In this lovely book, Ken Kraft provides a unique opening for American Buddhism and American wisdom in general. The reader will come to fresh and spacious new insights and enjoyments . . . Cheers for Zen in America and a deep bow to Ken Kraft!”—Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., author of The Present Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Discovery
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“I highly recommend this delightful book of East-West wisdom—full of surprise, insight, wit, and piercing beauty.”—Katy Butler, author of Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
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