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Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life by John Tarrant (Paperback, 2008)

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Koans show that you don't have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Having digested the traditional koan literature, which he has taught for many years, Zen teacher John Tarrant cheerfully goes beyond it.

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Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells more than a dozen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient wisdom. Koans show that you don't have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and generally subverting unhappiness. John Tarrant brings the heart of the koan tradition out into the open, reminding us that the old wisdom remains as vital as ever, a deep resource available to anyone in any place or time.

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PublisherShambhala Publications INC International Concepts

ISBN-139781590306185

eBay Product ID (ePID)87866395

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Publication Year2008

TopicBuddhism

Book TitleBring Me the Rhinoceros: and Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

AuthorJohn Tarrant

FormatPaperback

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Item Height194 mm

Item Weight227 g

Item Width139 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Title_AuthorJohn Tarrant

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