Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His EarIn Afterzen, van de Wetering provides unorthodox solutions to a collection of classical koans found in Walter Nowick's The Wisteria Triangle. Van de Wetering gives them his own distinctive touch of humor, down to earth reality, and tough spirituality in the context of meeting and adventures with personalities "collaged from bits and pieces of teachers and fellow students who kindly came my way." In this third book of the trilogy, van de Wetering is at his accessible, honest, funny, and genuinely spiritual best. |
Contents
THE GOODBYE KOAN | 1 |
WHAT HAPPENED TO HARRY? | 19 |
WHO THE HELL WAS BUDDHA? | 31 |
SIXTY ZEN MASTERS CANT BE WRONG | 39 |
JOSHU AND THE OLD WOMAN | 49 |
THEN CARRY IT ALONG | 57 |
SEEING INTO YOUR NATURE AND OTHER PASTIMES | 67 |
BAD COP GOOD COP | 81 |
TOMORROW NOBODY HAS HEARD OF BUDDHA | 107 |
GURUS WAFT IN AND OUT ONLY THE NOTGURU IS REAL | 115 |
999 WAYS OF NODIRECTION | 121 |
ITS THE ONLY WAY RIMPOCHE COULD STAY HERE | 137 |
THE MASTERS FEET TURN RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR HEAD | 151 |
DREAMS | 163 |
THREE NICE THINGS | 173 |
EMPTINESS IS FORM | 181 |
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Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear Janwillem Van de Wetering No preview available - 1999 |
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