The Whole World Is a Single Flower: 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life With Questions and Commentary (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780942795172)

" T]errific and reveals the incomparably profound, minutely subtle, and disarmingly humorous Mind of the Master. For the first time a koan collection includes Christian and Taoist koans as well as the more familiar Japanese koans. The "Buddhist" koans are selected from the classic collections The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Record, as well as from a large number of orally preserved koans from Korean Zen teachers. The Christian koans are derived from the poems of the German mystic known as Angelus Silesius; the Taoist koans come from the Tao Te Ching (in the "translation" by Stephen Mitchell, who also wrote this book's foreword). The checking questions are indeed probing and dumbfoundedness-inducing; the commentaries are uniformly brilliant and incisive...." --Tricycle Magazine

Author: Seung Sahn, Stephen Mitchell
ISBN-10: 0942795172
ISBN-13: 9780942795172
Publisher: Primary Point Press
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2014
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d