Book – PDF The Gateless Gate

[Vandheer]

No Amazon overview for this one, it seems to be about Zen practice.

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[Robert Ramsay]

It's a famous Zen book of koans with commentaries

 

[HoldAll]

There is a book by the same title on annas-archive.org (several copies) and also on amazon but it's considerably longer. Maybe you would like to upload that one as well? Both seem to be collection of zen koans.

 

[Vandheer]

What the hell is a Koan?

Sure, I will upload that one as well.

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Amazon overview for the other book by same title:

In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism's uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen's greatest collections of teaching stories. This translation was compiled with the Western reader in mind, and includes Koan Yamada's clear and penetrating comments on each case. Yamada played a seminal role in bringing Zen Buddhism to the West from Japan, going on to be the head of the Sanbo Kyodan Zen Community.

The Gateless Gate would be invaluable if only for the translation and commentary alone, yet it's loaded with extra material and is a fantastic resource to keep close by:
An in-depth Introduction to the History of Zen Practice
Lineage charts
Japanese-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-Japanese conversion charts for personal names, place names, and names of writings
Plus front- and back-matter from ancient and modern figures: Mumon, Shuan, Kubota Ji'un, Taizan Maezumi, Hugo Enomiya-Lasalle, and Yamada Roshi's son, Masamichi Yamada.

A wonderful inspiration for the koan practitioner, and for those with a general interest in Zen Buddhism.

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[pixel_fortune]

What the hell is a Koan?

Statements with a confusing or paradoxical surface meaning designed to throw you past words and into gnosis, although they wouldn't use the word gnosis

The two most famous ones are "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" and "if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there to hear it, does it still make a sound?"

Although I can't imagine those are still in use, they've been so intensely analysed they wouldn't have an effect.

Or any of those parables where the Buddha gives the student an answer that seems to bear no relation to the question, and in the parable the student is satisfied or pleased by the answer

 

[HoldAll]

Statements with a confusing or paradoxical surface meaning designed to throw you past words and into gnosis, although they wouldn't use the word gnosis

The two most famous ones are "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" and "if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there to hear it, does it still make a sound?"

Although I can't imagine those are still in use, they've been so intensely analysed they wouldn't have an effect.

Or any of those parables where the Buddha gives the student an answer that seems to bear no relation to the question, and in the parable the student is satisfied or pleased by the answer

Do I need to remind you that this is not the appropriate forum for such comments?

 

[Vandheer]

Do I need to remind you that this is not the appropriate forum for such comments?

Its my fault for asking it in the first place. I could have just Google'd what it meant.

 

[pixel_fortune]

Sorry!