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“You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,”

Buddhism Listening Zen Listen Past Life Past Lives Listening Skills Koan Koans Funeral Poems

Book:Zen Master Poems (1)

Source: Zen Master Poems (1)

“It's easy to identify with all the places we've been hurt and abandoned, but can we identify with the timeless wholeness that weathers every abuse, every condition? (Bonnie Myotai Treace)”

Compassion Meditation Buddhism Enlightenment Essays Impermanence Koans

Author:Melvin McLeod (Editor) Sherab Chodzin Kohn (Translator) by Thich Nhat Hanh

“No riddle, no koan, no double-cross.”

Betrayal Riddles Koans

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“If you have one friend in the end, it better be yourself.”

Dark Humor Reality Check Koans

Author:Benjamin Aubrey Myers

“The only thing I know that you don't is whether or not I know anything more than you do.”

Philosophy Koan Koans

Author:Eugene Noguera

“Kung-an [koans] were in vogue during the Tang Dynasty. Each Zen practitioner had a kung-an to work on. But before this period, Zen Masters did not need kung-an. The kung-an is, therefore, not something absolutely indispensable to the practice of Zen. It is, more or less, a skillful means created by Zen Masters in order to help people who work under their direction.”

Koans Skillful Means

Book:Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice

Source: Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice