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The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as koan)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,239 ratings — published 1228
Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as koan)
avg rating 4.24 — 125 ratings — published 1224
The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as koan)
avg rating 4.34 — 107 ratings — published 2005
The Whole World is a Single Flower: 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life with Questions and Commentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as koan)
avg rating 4.33 — 63 ratings — published 1992
Elegant Failure: A Guide to Zen Koans (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as koan)
avg rating 4.06 — 32 ratings — published 2010
Emprender: Cómo crear y dirigir una empresa (sin que te dirija ella a ti) (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,911,834 ratings — published 2005
Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.38 — 45 ratings — published
Introduction to Zen Koans: Learning the Language of Dragons (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.16 — 67 ratings — published
Construye valor: Crea y lidera las empresas que el mundo necesita (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published
Do Breathe: Calm your mind. Find focus. Get stuff done (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 3.82 — 559 ratings — published 2015
Do Pause: You are not a To Do list. (Do Books, 19)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,015 ratings — published
Do Design: Why beauty is key to everything (Do Books Book 13)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,163 ratings — published
Do/ Story/: How to Tell Your Story So the World Listens (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,180 ratings — published 2013
The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published 2004
The Garden of Flowers and Weeds: A New Translation and Commentary on The Blue Cliff Record (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.77 — 26 ratings — published
Records of the Transmission of the Lamp (Jingde Chuandeng Lu): Vol. 4 (Books 14-17) - The Shitou Line
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
Record of the Transmission of the Lamp: Volume One: The Buddhas and indian patriarchs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published 2015
Entangling Vines: A Classic Collection of Zen Koans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.41 — 22 ratings — published 2013
Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture, 24)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.53 — 19 ratings — published 2003
Zen Dust: The History of the Koan and Koan Study in Rinzai (Linji) Zen
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 3.56 — 25 ratings — published 2000
The Record of Lin-Chi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Book of Householder Koans: Waking Up in the Land of Attachments (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.49 — 53 ratings — published
The Record of Transmitting the Light: Zen Master Keizan's Denkoroku (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.44 — 25 ratings — published 1991
The Flowing Bridge: Guidance on Beginning Zen Koans (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.45 — 20 ratings — published 2007
Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment by Zen Master Keizan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.30 — 46 ratings — published 1993
Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.47 — 85 ratings — published 1974
Living Buddha Zen (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.29 — 14 ratings — published 1995
The Iron Flute: 100 Zen Koans (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.06 — 107 ratings — published 1985
The Blue Cliff Record (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.42 — 342 ratings — published 1112
Pat the Bunny (Board Book)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.09 — 24,623 ratings — published 1940
Zen's Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.27 — 73 ratings — published 2000
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,573 ratings — published 1957
Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.38 — 79 ratings — published 1978
Two Zen Classics: The Gateless Gate and the Blue Cliff Records (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.36 — 186 ratings — published
Breathing Through the Whole Body: The Buddha's Instructions on Integrating Mind, Body, and Breath (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.14 — 99 ratings — published 2012
Steam Train, Dream Train Colors (Board Book)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.07 — 260 ratings — published 2016
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.35 — 60,309 ratings — published 2010
I Know An Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,817 ratings — published 2006
Where Is Baby's Belly Button? (Board Book)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,288 ratings — published 2000
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,891 ratings — published 1975
Good Night, Gorilla (Board book)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.24 — 52,093 ratings — published 1994
Owl Babies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,891 ratings — published 1992
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.14 — 55,712 ratings — published 1970
The Runaway Bunny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.10 — 88,026 ratings — published 1942
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (Board Book)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,610 ratings — published 1989
The Pout-Pout Fish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.33 — 17,674 ratings — published 2008
Dr. Seuss's ABC (Board Book)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.13 — 51,288 ratings — published 1963
Barnyard Dance (Board Book)
by (shelved 1 time as koan)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,630 ratings — published 1993
“And what we’ve been always been is…?”
“Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about who’s paying for it, who’s starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in the burbs … planetwide, more every day, the payback keeps gathering. And meantime the only help we get from the media is boo hoo the innocent dead. Boo fuckin hoo. You know what? All the dead are innocent. There’s no uninnocent dead.”
After a while, “You’re not going to explain that, or…”
“Course not, it’s a koan.”
― Bleeding Edge
“Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about who’s paying for it, who’s starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in the burbs … planetwide, more every day, the payback keeps gathering. And meantime the only help we get from the media is boo hoo the innocent dead. Boo fuckin hoo. You know what? All the dead are innocent. There’s no uninnocent dead.”
After a while, “You’re not going to explain that, or…”
“Course not, it’s a koan.”
― Bleeding Edge
“Zhaozhou often quoted this saying by Sengcan: “The great way is not difficult if you just don’t pick and choose.”
― Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Bring You Joy
― Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Bring You Joy
