{"product_id":"the-zen-works-of-stonehouse-poems-and-talks-of-a-14thcentury-chinese-hermit-1","title":"The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a 14th-Century Chinese Hermit","description":"One of the classic texts of Zen  essential for anyone interested in Zen practice and tradition.  Stonehouse has been called \"the greatest of all Zen monks who made poetry their medium of instruction.\" Until now his works have rarely been available in English. Now all of the hermit monks poetry  including the major poetic works  \"Mountain Poems\" and \"Gathas \" as well as his most illuminating instructional talks  can be read in Pines superb translations.  According to Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker in The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader  \"The ancient Taoist themes of simplicity  naturalness  and ease resound in Shih-wus Stonehouses writing  ringing out clearly within the Chan Zen setting. Everything in his mountain life that might seem a hardship to others-very plain food  crude and cramped quarters  dearth of human contact-Shih-wu celebrates as an outright virtue or at least preferable to what a city dweller can know.... Shih-wu packed his verses with practice pointers and encouragements  enticements and goads  allusions to sutras and Chan stories.\"  With Red Pines personal discovery in 1991 of the site of Stonehouses former hut  this edition provides rare first-hand understanding of the spiritual and physical realm of Stonehouses era.  \"Every Zen student will wish to own a copy.\"-Jim Harrison  \"An admirable achievement!\"-Burton Watson  Red Pine is the pen name of Bill Porter. Translator of numerous classical Chinese texts  he lives in Port Townsend  Washington.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44633289261109,"sku":"ByrdShop_156279101X","price":91.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_156279101X_1ccbfaca-845c-4225-8973-08e75c888b79.jpg?v=1768174241","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-zen-works-of-stonehouse-poems-and-talks-of-a-14thcentury-chinese-hermit-1","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}