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Title: Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn by Zen Master Seung Sahn, Seung ISBN: 0-8021-3052-6 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Help All Beings
Comment: Zen Master Seung Sahn is one of the greatest teachers of Zen to have come to the West to date. Many of his Western students are now Zen Masters teaching throughout the world. Kwan Um Zen is a Korean Chogye division of Buddhism, focusing on Kwan Yin (Avalokitesvara) the bodhisattva of compassion, as well as traditional Zen/kong-an practices.
This book is unique in that it is a collection of letters through the years which students and non students have written him with questions and doubts. In it you find humorous and cutting wisdom on virtually any subject you can name. And he keeps coming back to the big question-what is your job? Primary point-what is mind? Sometimes he gets poetic, sometimes very funny, never a dull moment when reading this book! This book is for ANY Zen practioner. Anyone interested in Buddhism in general for that matter. if you want to come a few steps closer to understanding your true self, this book is for you.
Here is a small example of what is in store for you in this book: "One day, Soen-sa (Seung Sahn) asked his students,"What is one plus two?" One student shouted "KATZ!!!(sound of zen stick)"Is this the truth?" "No" "Then what is the truth?" "One plus two equals three." Soen-sa said, "I thought you were a blind dog, but now I see you are a keen eyed lion."-It is tiny antecdotes like these, to long letters between students, and various dharma talks he has given that make this book a winner. Just order it- you will soon see!
Rating: 5
Summary: One of my favorite modern Zen books
Comment: "Dropping Ashes on The Buddha" by Zen Master Seung Sahn is a truly unique gem in the boundless sea of Zen literature. It was one of the first books I read on Zen and it had a huge impact on me when I read it much like "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" did. Like "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" this book is filled to the brim with humor and compassion and wisdom, defying all logic that will truly awaken you. Seung Sahn was the first teacher to bring Korean Zen Buddhism to America and has since founded his own school. The book was compiled and edited by a student named Stephen Mitchell(whose translation of the "Tao Te Ching" I highly recommend.) The book is a collection of lectures, stories, letters, and stories(both modern and old) all by or having to do with Seung Sahn. It was also great to hear some great Zen stories from the Korean tradition and also a little bit about its lineage. Like koans and other Zen stories, this book shows a great account of buddha nature in action that is beyond words and thinking. Seung Sahn helped erase alot of misconceptions I had in my mind about Zen. I highly recommend this book. I am always re-reading certain stories every now and then and still finding them as fresh as the day I first read them.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Zen Bible
Comment: The first time I read this book I was stunned. I knew, I just knew, that it made sense somehow. But for the life of me, I could not figure out the "leaping logic" of ZMSS. However, I have kept it by my bedside for almost 3 years now, and a couple times a week, I pick it up, open to a story at random and again enjoy the wisdom contained within it. And believe it or not, after a few years of this, I find that the stories all fit together. There is an underlying pattern and method to the zen master's madness. I am getting closer to understanding it all, but then again, there is nothing to attain is there? "The mouse eats cat food but the cat bowl is broken."
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Title: The Compass of Zen by Seung Sahn ISBN: 1570623295 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 28 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Only Don't Know : Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn by Seung Sahn ISBN: 1570624321 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Whole World Is a Single Flower: 365 Kong-Ans for Everyday Life by Zen Master Seung Sahn ISBN: 0804834563 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, Shunryu Suzuki ISBN: 0834800799 Publisher: Weatherhill Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment by Phillip Kapleau Roshi ISBN: 0385260938 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 27 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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