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Koans will change your idea of who you are, and this will require courage.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Can you find where this moment comes from or where it goes home to?
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
if you approach small children without an agenda, if you can match the openness of their minds, you too are open.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
This koan resists the totalitarian impulse in spiritual paths.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Koans required a humility that is really a kind of plainness in approaching life without drama and ulterior motives.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
He decided that this insight was what made Yantou seem so objective; Yantou didn’t have an idea of Yantou that he had to groom and manicure.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
respected Tanchiu Koji Terayama, director of Hitsu Zendo. The English translation of his book’s title is Zen and the Art of Calligraphy (transl. by John Stevens; Penguin Group, 1983).
Sato,Shozo • Shodo: The Quiet Art of Japanese Zen Calligraphy, Learn the Wisdom of Zen Through Traditional Brush Painting
It seemed that if I took this journey I would be utterly changed. And before setting out, I couldn’t predict what that change would be. That was interesting to me. It encouraged me to set off with only the vaguest directions.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
A. T. Ariyaratane, a Buddhist elder, who is considered to be the Gandhi of Sri Lanka.