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Best, bester, besterest.,
By Ken Baker (Tiffin, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zen Master Raven: Sayings and Doings of a Wise Bird (Paperback)
This book is a delight. ... Finest value for my dollar of any purchase I can recall making. I am now on my fourth reading, and see no reason to stop. Aitken Roshi has given us a compendium of dozens of original American koans--or as the animals say, "turning points." Raven hears the story of Shakyamuni's realization when looking up to see the morning star from beneath the Bodhi tree. Raven somehow feels something is missing. What?
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Beyond the beyond,
By Stefan Thiesen "Reality is that which, when y... (Selm, NRW Germany) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Zen Master Raven: Sayings and Doings of a Wise Bird (Paperback)
How to comment on a book of Koans? For me it seems this book contains the essence of Aitken Roshi's teachings. This is not a soft Zen book, musing about the Zen-of-whatever. It is something quite different, a work book pointing "beyond the beyond".
The little drops in my eyes bow to Raven and Porcupine and thank them, with a smile, for sharing the punch line.
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This review is from: Zen Master Raven: Sayings and Doings of a Wise Bird (Paperback)
I appreciate Robert Aitken much more after reading this unique little creation of his. And I think you will, too, if you have some familiarity of Zen practice. The book consists of connected succinct stories that refreshingly present key realizations in Zen Buddhism -- without the usual old Chinese or Japanese monks.
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Once after Robert Aitken-Aitken Roshi, as he is fondly known to his students-had given a reading from this record, I asked him publicy where its stories came from. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Once after Robert Aitken-Aitken Roshi, as he is fondly known to his students-had given a reading from this record, I asked him publicy where its stories came from. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dependent arising, question period Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brown Bear, Black Bear, Gray Wolf, Assembly Oak, Blue Planet, Buddha Shakyamuni, Prairie Dog, Chuang Chou, Little Church, Great Law, Moose Roshi New!
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- Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students by Robert Aitken in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Taking the Path of Zen by Robert Aitken in Front Matter
- What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada by Walpola Rahula in Back Matter
- The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch by Hui-neng in Back Matter
- The Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues by Thomas Cleary in Back Matter
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