Elegant Failure: A Guide to Zen Koans by Shrobe, Richard

Elegant Failure: A Guide to Zen Koans (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781930485259)

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Format: Paperback
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Elegant Failure: A Guide to Zen Koans by Shrobe, Richard

Elegant Failure: A Guide to Zen Koans

$27.95
Elegant Failure: A Guide to Zen Koans by Shrobe, Richard

Elegant Failure: A Guide to Zen Koans

$27.95
Format: Paperback
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Zen koans are stories of exchanges between Zen masters and their disciples at the moment of enlightenment or near-enlightenment. These stories have long fascinated Western readers because of their wisdom, humor, and enigmatic quality. Drawing on over thirty years of practice and teaching, Richard Shrobe (himself a recognized Zen Master) has selected twenty-two cases from The Blue Cliff Record and Wu-men-kuan that he finds deeply meaningful and helpful for meditation practice. In Elegant Failure, he provides a wealth of background information and personal anecdotes for each koan that help to illuminate its meaning without detracting from its paradoxical nature. As Shrobe reminds us, "The main core of Zen teaching is the bare bones of what is there. In a certain sense, embellishing a story takes away from the central teaching: Don't embellish anything, just be with it as it is."

Author: Richard Shrobe
ISBN-10: 1930485255
ISBN-13: 9781930485259
Publisher: Shambhala
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2010
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.78w x 0.63d
By Richard Shrobe
By Richard Shrobe
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Richard Shrobe (Zen Master Wu Kwang) is the guiding teacher of the Chogye International Zen Center in New York City. For more than twenty-five years he has been teaching in the Kwan Um School of Zen, the largest Zen organization in America. He is a musician, social worker, and certified Gestalt psychotherapist in private practice. He is also the author of Open Mouth Already a Mistake.

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