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The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma: A Bilingual Edition
by
Bodhidharma,
Red Pine
A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual father.
While others viewed Zen practice as a purification of the mind...more
Paperback, 126 pages
Published
November 1st 1989
by North Point Press
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Bodhidharma is the 6th Century Indian monk who is credited with founding Zen Buddhism and Kung Fu at the Shaolin temple. Also known as Da Mo in Chinese, and Daruma in Japanese, he is the spiritual father of countless martial artists whose systems trace their origins to Shaolin.
In this slim volume Red Pine (an American monk living in Taiwan) gives an outline of the history, myth and legend surrounding the mystical figure of Bodhidharma and translates these short, enigmatic writings a...more
In this slim volume Red Pine (an American monk living in Taiwan) gives an outline of the history, myth and legend surrounding the mystical figure of Bodhidharma and translates these short, enigmatic writings a...more
"IT" cannot be stated clearer...
Going through this short book very, very slowly. We just spent eight weeks at my local Zen center going over *just* the Outline of Practice chapter, line by line. What does it mean to enter the path by reason (alternate translations include "principle" or "insight")? What does it mean to "suffer injustice"?
This is not a long book, and you can get through it quickly, but I found it much more gratifying to go through slowly and deliberately with a spirit ...more
This is not a long book, and you can get through it quickly, but I found it much more gratifying to go through slowly and deliberately with a spirit ...more
As a Christian maybe I shouldn’t be recommending this book, but it’s probably the best Buddhist book I’ve read (and there was a time when I read a lot of them), and one of the better books I’ve read in general. Talk about the diamond that cuts through illusion – the Diamond Sutra doesn’t really cut the way this book does. It’s pretty powerful, straight-ahead stuff. Incidentally, I once read that part of this book was a source for a section of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, but that’s a fuzzy old ...more
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Absolutely mind blowing.
a short but good read of writings / discourses from bodhidharma, translated by red pine.
bodhidharma was really the first to bring zen to china. he has a more gruff and hardline take on zen ideas and life than more recent writings. good to get a glimpse of where zen came from and how it has evolved, what has changed and what hasn't.
bodhidharma was really the first to bring zen to china. he has a more gruff and hardline take on zen ideas and life than more recent writings. good to get a glimpse of where zen came from and how it has evolved, what has changed and what hasn't.
This is an especially awesome, extremely short, tersely-written book. Rereading it now, I think about the first time I read it, at work in the parking lot, a night that it was raining. Sitting in the booth, watching the reflection of the streetlight in a puddle by the speed bump, seeing the image disturbed by raindrops.
A primer on Zen. I worked for three years with a Berkeley Zen teacher interpreting this 125 page book from English/Chinese for he and his Korean students. It was a life-changing experience.
Great zen teaching.
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