Ebook {Epub PDF} Two Zen Classics: The Gateless Gate and the Blue Cliff Records by Katsuki Sekida






















 · The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan (The Gateless Gate) and Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Record), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are .  · Mumonkan = The Gateless Gate. Hekiganroku = Blue Cliff Records. Both are collections of classic and well worn Zen koans with layers of commentary by more contemporary, but still old for our time, teachers and thinkers - mostly, I believe, from China but with phonetic Japanese names/5.  · The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan (The Gateless Gate) and Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Records), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are Brand: Shambhala.


Katsuki Sekida brings together the two works translated in this book, Mumonkan, or the Gateless Gate, and Hekiganroku, or The Blue Cliff Record, with the same fresh and pragmatic approach that made his Zen Training so successful. In these new translations with original commentaries, he applies insights gained from a lifetime of Zen practice and. Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen. Katsuki Sekida's Zen Training, first published in , remains a classic, one of the most comprehensive guides to Zen ever written, and his other great work, Two Zen Classics, consists of Sekida's translation and commentary on the koans — the enigmatic puzzles, the brief stories studied. The gateless gate blue cliff record need no introduction. The 2 star rating isn't for those two books but for the commentary provided by Katsuki Sekida. At some points I'm not sure if it's a salespitch for his own work 'Zen training' or if it's a genuine commentary to the texts.


The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan (The Gateless Gate) and Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Records), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. Where To Download Two Zen Classics The Gateless Gate And Blue Cliff Records Katsuki Sekida The two works translated in this book,Mumonkan (Gateless Gate) and Hekiganroku (Blue Cliff Record),both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. Katsuki Sekida's translations of the two classic Japanese collections of Zen koans recorded in 'The Gateless Gate' and 'The Blue Cliff Records' are very user-friendly and readable for a westerners unfamiliar with the Japanese language, and therefore unable to understand the nuances of the language in the koans or the associated commentaries.

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