Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (Shambhala Pocket Classics)

Zen Flesh Zen Bones is the best-selling collection of the most popular enlightenment stories anecdotes and koans of Zen literature which introduced a generation of Americans to Zen. Included here are four Zen and pre-Zen classics: 101 Zen Stories anecdotes and enlightenment stories of the great masters The Gateless Gate forty-eight Zen koans to awaken the enlightened mind The 10 Bulls or "Ox-Herding Pictures " depicting the ten stages of awareness Centeringa four-thousand-year-old Sanskrit text that may well be one of the roots of Zen thought