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a zen harvest,japanese folk zen sayings : haiku, dodoitsu, and waka (in English)
Robert Aitken
(Preface by)
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Soiku Shigematsu
(Translated by)
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Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
· Paperback
a zen harvest,japanese folk zen sayings : haiku, dodoitsu, and waka (in English) - Shigematsu, Soiku ; Aitken, Robert
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Synopsis "a zen harvest,japanese folk zen sayings : haiku, dodoitsu, and waka (in English)"
One of the vital aspects of traditional Rinzai Zen koan study in Japan is jakugo, or capping-phrase exercises. When Zen students have attained sufficient mastery of meditation or concentration, they are given a koan (such as the familiar "What is the sound of one hand clapping?") to study. When the student provides a satisfactory response to the koan, he advances to the jakugo exercise-he must select a "capping phrase," usually a passage from a poem among the thousands in a special anthology, the only book allowed in the monastery. One such anthology, written entirely in Chinese, was translated by noted Zen priest and scholar Soiku Shigematsu as A Zen Forest: Sayings of the Masters. Equally important is a Japanese collection, the Zenrin Segoshu, which Mr. Shigematsu now translates from the Japanese, including nearly eight hundred poems in sparkling English versions that retain the Zen implications of the verse.
