عنوان

Great doubt :

(Number (ISBN

1614292302

(Number (ISBN

9781614292302

Erroneous ISBN

9781614292456

Title Proper

Great doubt :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

practicing Zen in the world /

First Statement of Responsibility

Boshan ; translated and introduced by Jeff Shore.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Somerville, MA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Wisdom,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2016]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 108 pages ;

Dimensions

21 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Translation. Exhortations for Those Who Don't Arouse Doubt -- Exhortations for Those Who Rouse Doubt -- Commentary on Exhortations for Those Who Don't Arouse Doubt -- Commentary on Exhortations for Those Who Rouse Doubt.

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"Learn to face and overcome the pitfalls of Zen practice--self-indulgence, suppression, speculation, asceticism--with this first complete translation of a Zen classic. "In Zen practice, the essential point is to arouse doubt. What is this doubt? When you are born, for example, where do you come from? You cannot help but remain in doubt about this. When you die, where do you go? Again, you cannot help but remain in doubt. Since you cannot pierce this barrier of life and death, suddenly doubt will coalesce right before your eyes. Try to put it down, you cannot; try to push it away, you cannot. Eventually you will break through this doubt block and realize what a worthless notion life and death is -- ha! As the old worthies said: 'Great doubt, great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.'"--Boshan. There are many ways in which we may delude ourselves in practice. Doubt, Boshan argues, can be a powerful tool that rouses us from the complacency that comes with intellectual musing, ascetic striving, emotional suppression and quiet meditation. Great Doubt presents for the first time complete translations of Boshan's key works on working with doubt: "Exhortations for Those Who Don't Arouse Doubt" and "Exhortations for Those Who Do Arouse Doubt." This little book contains the most powerful medicine for the diseases that plague spiritual practice."--

Title

Great doubt.

International Standard Book Number

9781614292456

General Material Designation

Prose works.

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Selections

Parallel Title

Practicing Zen in the world

Spiritual life-- Zen Buddhism.

PHILOSOPHY-- Zen.

RELIGION-- Buddhism-- Sacred Writings.

RELIGION-- Buddhism-- Zen (see also PHILOSOPHY-- Zen)

Spiritual life-- Zen Buddhism.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Yuanlai,1575-1630

Shore, Jeff

Yuanlai,1575-1630.

Yuanlai,1575-1630.

Date of Transaction

20200823050249.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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