Zen has inspired and uplifted the minds of people in all walks of life: artists poets and philosophers; political religious and military leaders; men and women young and old. Buddhists from other schools studied the impartial way of Zen. So did followers of other religions including Confucianists Taoists and Shintoistsand in our own time Christians and Jewswho have used Zen techniques to rediscover their own traditions. Here are a thousand years of Zen teaching presented for the modern reader in a way that preserves the dynamic flavor of these talks sayings and records of heart-to-heart encounters. From the earliest adepts to the last of the great masters The Pocket Zen Reader is a compendium of Zen at its best. Here are Zens principles purposes and practices its perils pitfalls and perversions. Self-understanding methods of meditation the use of koans spiritual awakening and integration with everyday life are all found here in one small volume. This miniature book is an abridgment of Clearys larger Zen collection Teachings of Zen.
