Life Between the Tigers (2nd edition)

Zen Wisdom in Everyday English

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Pub Date 22 Oct 2013 | Archive Date 31 Dec 2013
Greenleaf Book Group | Zen Books Worldwide

Description

Life Between the Tigers is a new collection of Buddhist parables and Zen koans (paradoxes that challenge our perspectives on life and reality) - adapted for the modern Western reader.

In their original forms, many koans are set in times and places that are “alien” to most Westerners. They refer to traditions, customs, locations and histories that can confuse (and even deter) students of Buddhism. In Life Between the Tigers, these classic stories have been edited into everyday English, so the average reader can better understand and enjoy them.

Life Between the Tigers is designed to provoke spiritual and emotional insights both profound and prosaic.

Life Between the Tigers is a new collection of Buddhist parables and Zen koans (paradoxes that challenge our perspectives on life and reality) - adapted for the modern Western reader.

In their...

Advance Praise

''Life Between the Tigers will confuse, perplex, amaze, and just possibly point toward the path to enlightenment, and is enthusiastically recommended - especially for anyone intrigued by Zen Buddhism.'' ----Midwest Book Review

''You don't have to be a Buddhist to appreciate the writings in this collection of Buddhist stories. They take your mind in unexpected directions, but they do so in such straightforward, simple prose that your don't even realize you're being led. These stories are often light, often humorous, and they each end with a twist that gives the reader a feeling of being in on the joke somehow, even if you can't quite put your finger on the punchline. The whole point of Buddhism is that we are always on the journey, we have never arrived. This book provides several hundred wonderful, quick reminders that we really are in that journey to enjoy each moment.'' ---- Russell Rowland, author of In Open Spaces, The Watershed Years, and High and Inside

''It takes a few times through the stories, but they teach something that traditional zen koans set out to teach from the very beginning, that uncontrived response to what is. I love how many of these stories are set in modern times. If you're used to zen stories set in ancient Japan, these will turn you for a loop.''
'If you open a book,
And see yourself,
What do you see?'
---- Joshua Waldman, CareerEnlightenment.com author of Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies

''Life Between the Tigers will confuse, perplex, amaze, and just possibly point toward the path to enlightenment, and is enthusiastically recommended - especially for anyone intrigued by Zen...


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ISBN 9780988904866
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