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Bring Me the Rhinoceros And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life

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ISBN-10: 159030618X

ISBN-13: 9781590306185

Edition: 2008

Authors: John Tarrant

List price: $18.95
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Bring Me the Rhinocerosis an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed down through generations of masters, usually in private encounters between teacher and student. This book deftly retells fourteen traditional koans, which are partly paradoxical questions dangerous to your beliefs and partly treasure boxes of ancient wisdom. Koans show that you don't have to impress people or change into an improved, more polished version of yourself. Instead you can find happiness by unbuilding, unmaking, throwing overboard, and generally subverting unhappiness. John Tarrant brings the heart of the koan tradition out into the…    
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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.47" wide x 7.83" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

John Tarrant is a psychotherapist and director of Zen training. A student of Buddhism who has trained in several major traditions, Tarrant is a lineage holder in Zen and teaches extensively in both the United States and Australia. In addition , he holds a Ph.D. in psychology and practices Jungian psychotherapy with a special interest in healing and the arts. He is a member of the faculty of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona at Tucson and teaches meditation to physicans. He lives in Santa Rosa, California.