Men and Women Through a Zen Practitioner's Eyes

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Author: Lin Gufang
Publisher: The Commercial Press

Summary:
The two sexes, love and desire, marriage and romance, parting and union, parent and child—a wise Zen practitioner with a compassionate Buddhist heart offers the most intimate guidance to all sentient beings.

Some may ask: does a Zen practitioner also speak of men and women? The answer: if there were a single matter Zen could not reach, then Zen would have strayed from the Way. Sex is the first great koan of human life, and love the most profound arising of emotion. The multitude are lost in this very perplexity—yet from it one can also turn back to reflect, from it cultivate practice, from it transcend.

Change is the essence; the unchanging is the delusion. So Zen says of human life: the flowers of spring, the birds of summer, the maples of autumn, the snow of winter. Recognize this, and each stage has the colors of its own stage, each life the scenery of its own life. So it is with love, so with sex, and so too between parent and child.

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