Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans by Sutherland, Joan

Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611809862)

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Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans by Sutherland, Joan

Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans

$19.95
Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans by Sutherland, Joan

Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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An intimate spiritual and literary journey exploring how Zen koans make us permeable to the joys and the anguish of this life--and to the primordial mystery we glimpse behind the veil of the everyday.

In Through Forests of Every Color, renowned Zen teacher Joan Sutherland reimagines the koan tradition with allegiance to the root spirit of the koans and to their profound potential for vivifying, subverting, and sanctifying our lives. Her decades of practicing with koans and of translating them from classical Chinese imbues this text with a warm familiarity, an ease still suffused with awe.

Interlinked essays on "koans as art," "keeping company with koans," and "walking the koan way" intersperse with beautifully translated renditions of dozens of traditional Zen koans. Sutherland also shares innovative koans culled from Western literature, as well as teachings on how to create idiosyncratic koans or "turning words" from the circumstances of one's own life.

"First honored is your yearning, the preparation made on faith that there is something that will receive you if you make yourself ready," writes Sutherland of the koan seeker. "Bathed--attended to, washed free of complications--and then aspiring to the deepest kind of beauty--receptive, brave, dedicated, openhearted. Already you've begun to look like the thing you're looking for."

Author: Joan Sutherland
ISBN-10: 161180986X
ISBN-13: 9781611809862
Publisher: Shambhala
Language: English
Published: 06/21/2022
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.71d
By Joan Sutherland
By Joan Sutherland
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JOAN SUTHERLAND, Roshi is a teacher in the koan tradition and the first woman teacher in her lineage in the Americas. She is one of the founders of the Pacific Zen School, an innovative contemporary koan school that also includes Pacific Zen Institute. Sutherland taught in Santa Fe, New Mexico, through Awakened Life, the community that gathered around her teachings there. She is also the founding teacher of The Open Source, a network of communities in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and California. In 2014 she retired from working directly with students and now focuses on Cloud Dragon: The Joan Sutherland Dharma Works, established to organize and disseminate her teachings. She is the author of Vimalakirti and the Awakened Heart, and her writing has appeared regularly in Lion's Roar and Buddhadharma magazines. She is a translator from classical Chinese, collaborating with John Tarrant on a new translation of the Blue Cliff Record (forthcoming from Wisdom Publications). She currently lives on the coast of northern California.

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