Three Paths of the Zen Gate

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Author: Lin Gufang
Publisher: Uni-Books (You Lu Wenhua)

Content Summary:
Retracing a thousand years of Zen footprints, laying bare the true character of the Taoist.
A book on the cultivation of life by the Zen practitioner and cultural scholar Lin Gufang,
entering through the swordsman, the poet, and the wife, following the traces inward,
to present concretely the most genuine discipline and practice of the Zen tradition.
Zen is a sword: two blades meeting, cleaving life and death straight through.
Zen is a poem: scoop up water and catch the moon, entering the present directly.
Zen is daily life: carrying water and hauling firewood, samadhi in every speck of dust.

Setting out from the depths of Chinese culture, the Zen practitioner and cultural scholar Lin Gufang takes the life practice and life wisdom of Chinese Zen masters through the ages as his examples. From disposition, to insight, to cultivation, to the resulting vista, each Zen master originally traces out a clear trajectory of life right here. And with such living, breathing Zen masters and such living, breathing practice, anyone who truly wishes to enter Zen finally has a three-dimensional point of reference.

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