Bring me the rhinoceros : and other Zen koans that will save your life [First Shambhala edition.] 9780834823495, 0834823497

Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years,

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English Pages 194 Year 2008

Bring me the rhinoceros : and other Zen koans that will save your life [First Shambhala edition.]
9780834823495, 0834823497

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John

Table of contents :
An impossible question means a journey --
Bodhidharma's vast emptiness : forgetting who you are and making use of nothing --
Zhaozhou's dog : the secret of changing your heart --
Rhinoceros : meeting the inconceivable --
Ordinary mind is the way : the heaven that's already here --
A condolence : call pursuing death into life --
The red thread : connections that desire makes --
Counting the stars : a boring koan --
Out of nowhere, the mind comes forth : light playing on children's faces --
Tortoise mountain wakes up : friendship --
The great way is not difficult : life with and without your cherished beliefs --
The cypress tree in the garden : the trouble with ancestors --
The Bodhisattva's great mercy : a secret kindness working in the dark --
The woman at the inn : are you afraid of this happiness? --
There's nothing I dislike : on avoiding bad art --
The master song man, an Australian koan : finding your song.

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