The Zen Book of Life: Wisdom from the Great Masters, Teachers, and Writers of All Time
By Mark Zocchi
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Inspired by the teachings of the Buddha and other great masters, teachers, and writers, this is a book designed to help people connect to their inner divinity and find their spiritual path. It is overflowing with profound quotes, sayings, and insights, each presented alone, allowing the reader to dip in at any time. Each reading is guaranteed to inspire immediately and provide food for thought.
Quotations and sayings have been chosen from Gautama Buddha and other "buddhas"--masters of spirituality and inspiration, such as Milarepa, Longchenpa, his Holiness the 14th Dali Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Sogyal Rinpoche, along with other "greats" including Cicero, Rumi, Lao Tzu, Mother Teresa, and Shakespeare.
A wonderful book to place on your office desk, coffee table, or bookshelf or by your bed, it is designed to provide daily comfort, wisdom, and spiritual nourishment.
Mark Zocchi
Mark Zocchi, founding director of Brolga Publishing, has been in the book trade since 1978. His career includes managing independent book stores, working as the national marketing manager of a 200-store book chain, and consulting to high-profile authors, publishers, and retail book chains.
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The Zen Book of Life - Mark Zocchi
INTRODUCTION
Inspired by the Buddha and the great Zen masters, the intention of this little book is to help awaken the reader's own wisdom mind.
The Zen Book of Life is filled with quotes, Haiku (Zen Poems) and Koans (traditional riddles that a master asks a student to inspire the student's awakening).
Zen is a school of Buddhism that arose in China around the fourth century CE but was refined in Japan when a South Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma allegedly brought the mind only
teaching there and started a lineage.
There is one teaching that is thought to be central to Zen. One day the Buddha was to give a teaching to huge assembly of monks and nuns gathered. The Buddha did not speak but simply held up a flower. The crowd became restless and eager for the Buddha's teaching to begin. But a senior disciple, Kashaya, only smiled. The Buddha said Kashaya had understood the teaching and was to be known from then on as Mahakashyapa.
Mahakashyapa understood the highest wisdom of the Buddha. In that moment of the Buddha holding up the flower a direct mind-to-mind transmission had occurred and this is seen as the beginning of the Zen lineage.
Typically Zen is a direct approach where Haiku and Koan are used to break conceptual thinking leading to a glimpse of satori or enlightenment.
This direct teaching or wisdom teaching is known as Zen, Chaun in Chinese and Dzogchen in Tibetan.
Any attempt to describe Zen in words will fall short, because they are words and not the experience of Zen. Or as one Zen master said, The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.
However the blessing of the finger pointing to the moon is that it helps turn our focus in the right direction.
May The Zen Book of Life help turn your mind to uncover your own wisdom.
ZEN WISDOM
Zen in its essence
is the art of seeing
into the nature of one's being,
and it points the way
from bondage to freedom.
D.T. SUZUKI
Although I try to hold
the single thought
Of Buddha's teaching in my heart,
I cannot help but hear the many
crickets' voices calling as well.
ISUMI SHIKIBU
We accept the graceful falling
Of mountain cherry blossoms,
But it is much harder for us
To fall away from our own
Attachment to the world
ZEN