Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (Shambhala Pocket Classics)

a collection of Zen and pre-Zen writings

Plot

"Zen Flesh, Zen Bones "is the best-selling collection of the most popular enlightenment stories, anecdotes, and koans of Zen literature, which introduced a generation of Americans to Zen. Included here are four Zen and pre-Zen classics: "101 Zen Stories "--anecdotes and enlightenment stories of the great masters "The Gateless Gate "--forty-eight Zen koans to awaken the enlightened mind The "10 Bulls, "or "Ox-Herding Pictures," depicting the ten stages of awareness "Centering"--a four-thousand-year-old Sanskrit text that may well be one of the roots of Zen thought