GREAT DOUBT: Practicing Zen in the World - Softcover

Fiell, Charlotte & Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614292302 ISBN 13: 9781614292302

Verlag: WISDOM PUBLICATIONS,U.S., 2016

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"A valuable handbook that deserves close study by teachers and practitioners. Savor this book--it is truly a gem."--Guo Gu, author of Passing through the Gateless Barrier

"This important volume conveys a part of traditional Zen that often gets lost in the West: great doubt. An excellent translation and commentary."--Christopher Ives, author of Imperial-Way Zen

"This book is an enormously valuable contribution to Zen practice. Shore vividly unpacks an essential and characteristic feature of Zen, great doubt, as wonder and curiosity. He not only offers pithing warnings about where we get stuck, but clear advice about how to go beyond the places in which we are free."--Dosho Port, author of Keep Me In Your Heart A While

Reseña del editor:

Learn to face and overcome the pitfalls of Zen practice—self-indulgence, suppression, speculation, asceticism—with this first complete translation of a Zen classic. 

“In Zen practice, the essential point is to arouse doubt. What is this doubt? When you are born, for example, where do you come from? You cannot help but remain in doubt about this. When you die, where do you go? Again, you cannot help but remain in doubt. Since you cannot pierce this barrier of life and death, suddenly doubt will coalesce right before your eyes. Try to put it down, you cannot; try to push it away, you cannot. Eventually you will break through this doubt block and realize what a worthless notion life and death is — ha! As the old worthies said: ‘Great doubt, great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.’”
– Boshan

There are many ways in which we may delude ourselves in practice. Doubt, Boshan argues, can be a powerful tool that rouses us from the complacency that comes with intellectual musing, ascetic striving, emotional suppression and quiet meditation.

Great Doubt presents for the first time complete translations of Boshan's key works on working with doubt: “Exhortations for Those Who Don't Arouse Doubt” and “Exhortations for Those Who Do Arouse Doubt.”

This little book contains the most powerful medicine for the diseases that plague spiritual practice. 

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• Verlag: WISDOM PUBLICATIONS,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1614292302
• ISBN 13: 9781614292302
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 104