Dropping Ashes on the Buddha The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780802130525
  • 07 april 1994
  • 256 pagina's
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Stephen Mitchell

Stephen Mitchell was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943, educated at Amherst, the Sorbonne, and Yale, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice. His many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, Meetings with the Archangel, and Gilgamesh. Mitchell is married to Byron Katie and cowrote two of her bestselling books: Loving What Is and A Thousand Names for Joy.

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Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do? This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn is fond of posing to his American students who attend his Zen centers. Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a delightful, irreverent, and often hilariously funny living record of the dialogue between Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and his American students. Consisting of dialogues, stories, formal Zen interviews, Dharma speeches, and letters using the Zen Master's actual words in spontaneous, living interaction with his students, this book is a fresh presentation of the Zen teaching method of instant dialogue between Master and student which, through the use of astonishment and paradox, leads to an understanding of ultimate reality.

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  • Scheelt een klooster

    Het boek bevat 100 hoofdstukjes, varierent in lengte. Dit is één van de kortste:

    63. Does the Cat Have Buddha-Nature?
    One evening, after a Dharma talk at the Cambridge Zen Center, a student pointed to Katz, the Zen Center cat, and said to Seung Sahn Soen-sa, “You said before that this cat doesn't say it's a cat, that it has don't-know mind. Is the cat enlightened? But if it is, why does Buddhism teach that only humans can attain enlightenment?”
    Soen-sa said, “What is enlightenment?”
    “I don't know.”
    “Enlightenment is not enlightenment. If someone says, ‘I have attained enlightenment,’ he is mistaken. Many students think, ‘I want enlightenment! I want enlightenment!’ With this kind of thinking, they will never attain enlightenment.”
    “The cat doesn't think enlightenment or no-enlightenment.”
    “The cat is just a cat. I ask you: Does the cat have Buddha-nature? If it has Buddha-nature, then it can attain enlightenment. If it has no Buddha-nature, no enlightenment.”
    “Hmmm … I don't know.”
    Soen-sa laughed and said, “Yah, don't-know is good. Very good.”

    Kan je zelf oordelen.
    Mocht dit je niet aanstaan, en daar zit wat in, dan zou je het toch kunnen kopen met het argument dat dit wel de manier was waarop Soen-sa onderwees. Misschien valt er toch wat te leren.

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