Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415284653)

Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of pure Zen in Japan. Created by Zen Masters for their warrior pupils, the Japanese Koans use incidents from everyday life - a broken tea-cup, a water-jar, a cloth - to bring the warrior pupils of the Samurai to the Zen realization. Their aim is to enable a widening of consciouness beyond the illusions of the limited self, and a joyful inspiration in life - a state that has been compared to being free under a blue sky after imprisonment.

Author: Trevor Leggett
ISBN-10: 0415284651
ISBN-13: 9780415284653
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/20/2003
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.78h x 6.36w x 0.67d