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Title: Blue Cliff Record: Zen Echoes by David Rothenberg, Yuanwu Pi Yen Lu, Sam Hamill ISBN: 1-930337-03-5 Publisher: Codhill Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A highly recommended addition to Buddhist Studies reading
Comment: Blue Cliff Record: Zen Echoes by David Rothenberg (poet, philosopher, musician, and Contributing Editor to "Parabola" magazine) is a selection of one hundred classic Zen Buddhist koans originating in a 12th century Zen manuscript. Ancient, poetic ponderings meant to stimulate insight and deeper awareness fill this treasure store, aptly and meaningfully translated into English. "Take my hand and come circle the One Certain Mountain/We'll sadden ourselves not to death, but to life." Blue Cliff Record is a highly recommended addition to Buddhist Studies reading lists and reference collections.
Rating: 5
Summary: Gorgeous, Succinct, Mindbending
Comment: The scholarly translations of the Blue Cliff Record (all that's been available until now) are dense with confusing imagery and obtuse commentary from another century. In this lovely and tasty version however, Rothenberg has found the meat and given it to us shorn of the accumulations of centuries, without throwing away any of the succulent parts! And it comes beautifully designed and illustrated to boot. Highly recommended! Here's one of my favorite ones:
Case 37: This Triple World
Don't wait around when lightning strikes
When thunder comes there's no time to hide
there are ghosts before you, they won't go away
Once the arrow leaves the bow, it will not come back.
The moonshadow strikes the archer at night.
There is nothing in the triple world
Nothing one, two, three times or more.
The white clouds are a ceiling.
the stream plays the world like a lute,
one pluck, three strings, no one sings along.
All the tones may be clear,
but when you hear them, you're mute.
When the rain has passed, the river is deep.
Dragging in mud, dripping in water,
run from the thunder, no time to sleep.
Eighty four thousand verses,
eighty four thousand to go.
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Title: Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei by Thomas Cleary ISBN: 1570629129 Publisher: Shambhala Publications Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation by Zen Master Dogen, Kazuaki Tanahashi, Norman Fischer ISBN: 1590300246 Publisher: Shambhala Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts by Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright ISBN: 0195150686 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation by Carl Bielefeldt ISBN: 0520068351 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice by Victor Sogen Hori ISBN: 0824822846 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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