Rotten Rope: Another Useless Zen Book

By: T. S. Mushin Crisman

"Bitten by a snake, afraid of a rotten rope"--so goes the Sino-Japanese saying. Twenty-five brisk essays, with paired calligraphies, weave the "rotten rope" of this book. Raising the mind of comparison and inspecting it from many angles, Zen practitioner and teacher T. S. Mushin Crisman offers you the chance to be bitten by the snake or repelled by the rot--and to spontaneously and intuitively re-cognize what appears in your experience. Addressing topics ranging from the pace of practice to the mudra of zazen, the experiential sides of posture and ritual, the overlaps and divergences of scientific and traditional Zen world views, and many more, this sparkling collection invites you to discover the immediacy from which to take your own next step on the path of Zen. "No gap, but also no lingering," writes Mushin. "'things-as-it-is.' You choose."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DCPG7Q9W
• ISBN13: 9798328593816
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"