A Zen Harvest - (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Shigematsu translates the Japanese Zenrin Segoshu, a collection including nearly 800n implications of the poems.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>One of the vital aspects of traditional Rinzai Zen koan study in Japan is <i>jakugo</i>, or capping-phrase exercises. When Zen students have attained sufficient mastery of meditation or concentration, they are given a koan (such as the familiar "What is the sound of one hand clapping?") to study. When the student provides a satisfactory response to the koan, he advances to the <i>jakugo </i>exercise-he must select a "capping phrase," usually a passage from a poem among the thousands in a special anthology, the only book allowed in the monastery. </p><p>One such anthology, written entirely in Chinese, was translated by noted Zen priest and scholar Soiku Shigematsu as <i>A Zen Forest: Sayings of the Masters. </i>Equally important is a Japanese collection, the <i>Zenrin Segosh</i><i>u, </i>which Mr. Shigematsu now translates from the Japanese, including nearly eight hundred poems in sparkling English versions that retain the Zen implications of the verse.</p>
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