Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans
Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of pure Zen in Japan. Created by Zen Masters for their warrior pupils, the Japanese Koans use incidents from everyday life — a broken tea-cup, a water-jar, a cloth — to bring the warrior pupils of the Samurai to the Zen realization. Their aim is to enable a widening of consciouness beyond the illusions of the limited self, and a joyful inspiration in life — a state that has been compared to being free under a blue sky after imprisonment.
- Author
- Trevor Leggett
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 216
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780415284653
- Genres
- religion, philosophy, zen
- Release date
- 2003
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