Zen & Zen Classics, Volume 1

By R.H. Blyth

Book Overview

This work is a fascinating introduction to Zen and to the self-enlightenment and inner reason that has been a driving force in the history of Japan. In the volumes comprising Zen and Zen Classics,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893462055
• ISBN13: 9780893462055
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Heian International Publishing Company
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

AN ANTHOLOGY OF SOME CLASSIC WRITINGS

The other volumes of Blyth are very hard to get. The collection of writings and extracts does a good job of condensing the essence of those volumes. The flavor of the writings is what I would call "Zen existentialism". I read the book from cover to cover with rapt attention about 25 years ago. What I got from the writings was about accepting myself and life as it is, meeting it directly, and cutting through every kind of theory to be with what really is. The gift of Zen is that, while emerging from the very heart of what Buddha taught, cuts through even the words of the Buddha to what he saw and even more important than what he saw is what we actually see, right here and right now.

Frederick Franck, editor of R. H.Blyth's Great Works

Franck's "Zen and Zen Classics" is his editing of the writings of R. H. Blyth on Ch'an/Zen, which are otherwise out of print. It is a great book, specially since it contains the only in-print works of Blyth, who, Franck says, is the indispensible interpreter of Zen for the western mind, and that Blyth is the ever-open eye. This is a great book, and can lead to even greater ones by Blyth---if onlt they would print more.

Frederick Franck, editor of R. H.Blyth's Great Works

Franck's "Zen and Zen Classics" is his editing of the writings of R. H. Blyth on Ch'an/Zen, which are otherwise out of print. It is a great book, specially since it contains the only in-print works of Blyth, who Franck says is the indispensible interpreter of Zen for the western mind, and that Blyth is the ever-open eye. This is a great book, and can lead to even greater ones by Blyt---if onlt they would print more.