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001			on1091585474
003			OCoLC
005			20200317132727.0
008			190903s2020 nyu b 000 0 eng
010			_a 2019039462
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dT7B _dUKMGB _dNFG
015			_aGBC027090 _2bnb
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019			_a1141204636
020			_a9781948626088 _q(paperback)
020			_a194862608X
035			_a(OCoLC)1091585474 _z(OCoLC)1141204636
042			_apcc
092			_a294.3443 _bM346
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMarko, Eve Myonen, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe book of householder koans : _bwaking up in the land of attachments / _cEve Myonen Marko, Wendy Egyoku Nakao.
263			_a2002
264		1	_aRhinebeck, New York : _bMonkfish Book Publishing Company, _c2020.
300			_axx, 267 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"Zen koans, beginning some 1500 years ago, refer to stories or questions arising in encounters between monks and old Chinese and Japanese masters, and include commentaries designed to help the Zen practitioner awaken. Koans like Hakuin's What is the sound of one hand clapping? are well-known, and the word koan has even gone mainstream. Thousands of classic koans emerged from the lives of monks living inside a Chinese or Japanese culture, and the commentaries on those koans contain poetic elements and images that have proved challenging for many Westerners. The Book of Householder Koans is a collection of koans created by 21st century Zen practitioners living a lay life in the West. The koans deal with the challenges of relationships, raising children, work, money, love, loss, old age, and death, and come from practitioners across three continents, and with commentaries by two Western teachers. The collection is based on the premise that our lives as householders contain situations rich with challenge and grit, the equivalents of old Zen masters' shouts or blows meant to sweep the ground right from under their students. They become koans, or koan practice, when they jolt us out of our usual way of thinking, when we're no longer observers of our lives but plunge in, closing the gap between ourselves and the situation we face"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aKoan. _9136656
650		0	_aZen Buddhism. _921442
700	1		_aNakao, Wendy Egyoku, _eauthor.
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