Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones is a 1957 publication by Paul Reps combining four separate texts on nondual practice:

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101 Zen Stories

101 Zen Stories is a 1919 compilation of Zen koans^[1] including 19th and early 20th century anecdotes compiled by Nyogen Senzaki,^[2] and a translation of Shasekishū,^[1]^[3] written in the 13th century by Japanese Zen master Mujū (無住) (literally, "non-dweller").^[3] The book was reprinted by Paul Reps as part of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones.^[3]^[4] Well-known koans in the collection include A Cup of Tea (1), The Sound of One Hand (21), No Water, No Moon (29), and Everything is Best (31).

Gateless Gate

The Gateless Gate (Mandarin: 無門關 Wúménguān; Japanese: 無門関 Mumonkan), more accurately translated as The Gateless Barrier, is a collection of 48 Chan (Zen) koans compiled in the early 13th century by the Chinese Zen master Wumen Huikai (無門慧開; Japanese: Mumon Ekai; 1183–1260). Wumen's preface indicates that the volume was published in 1228. Each koan is accompanied by a commentary and verse by Wumen.

Ten Bulls

Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding Pictures (十牛; Japanese: jūgyū, Chinese: shíniú) is a series of short poems and accompanying pictures used in the Zen tradition to illustrate the stages of a practitioner's progression towards the purification of the mind and enlightenment,^[web 1] as well as his or her subsequent return into the world while acting out of wisdom.

An equivalent series of stages is depicted in the Nine Stages of Tranquility,^[web 2] used in the Mahamudra tradition, in which the mind is represented by an elephant and a monkey.^[web 3]^[web 4] This formulation originates with Asaṅga (4th CE), delineating the nine mental abidings in his Abhidharmasamuccaya and the Śrāvakabhūmi chapter of his Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra. It is also found in the Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra of Maitreyanātha, which shows considerable similarity in arrangement and content to the Bodhisattva-bhūmi-śāstra.^[note 1] The Dharma Fellowship', a Kagyu (Mahamudra) organisation, notes that the practice starts with studying and pondering the dharma, where-after the practice of meditation commences.^[web 5]

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra

The Vigyan Bhairav Tantra is a chapter from the Rudrayamala Tantra. It was introduced to the west by Paul Reps, a student of Lakshman Joo. Reps brought the text to wider attention by including an English translation in his popular book Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. Cast as a discourse between the god Shiva and his consort Devi or Shakti, it briefly presents 112 meditation methods or centering techniques (dharanas).^[5]

Notes

^ Piya Tan gives a full description of these stages; see Piya Tan (2004), The Taming of the Bull. Mind-training and the formation of Buddhist traditions, dharmafarer.org

References

Printed references

^ ^a ^b "Koan Studies". thezensite. Retrieved April 24, 2013.
^ Ross, Nancy Wilson (1960). The World of Zen: An East-West Anthology. Vintage. p. xxii. ISBN 9780394703015.
^ ^a ^b ^c Reps, Paul; Senzaki, Nyogen (15 September 1998). Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-zen Writings. Tuttle Publishing. p. 17. ISBN 9780804831864.
^ Ross, Nancy Wilson (1960). The World of Zen: An East-West Anthology. Vintage. p. 74. ISBN 9780394703015.
^ Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (ISBN 0-8048-0644-6)

Web-references

^ 廓庵《十牛圖頌》考：從牧牛圖頌談起
^ "Piya Tan (2004), The Taming of the Bull. Mind-training and the formation of Buddhist traditions, dharmafarer.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
^ "Dharma Fellowship, Deepening Calm-Abiding - The Nine Stages of Abiding". Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
^ Skyflower Dharmacenter, Mahamudra Tranquility and Insight
^ "Dharma Fellowship, Deepening Calm-Abiding - The Nine Stages of Abiding". Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2015-04-16.

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